Golf:Three-time major Padraig Harrington heads into this week's US Open believing it is time he experienced that winning feeling again. The Dubliner won his three championships in a six-major spell during 2007-08, securing back-to-back Opens at Carnoustie and Royal Birkdale before adding the US PGA title at Oakland Hills.
Harrington, however, has not added to his trophy haul since then and speaking at Pebble Beach ahead of the second major of the year, the 38-year-old said he was due a victory.
"It's been six Majors since I won or so, 2008. So I'm pretty keen to try and get another win," Harrington said. "When you win tournaments like that you want to get out there and win another one. And it feels like a long time, even though, as I said, it's really not that many events.
"Obviously I haven't won any sort of regular events, either, but at times I can be distracted at those events and maybe focusing my goals elsewhere. But certainly a win would be nice. It would be great if it's this week but any win would be nice.
"It's kind of overdue at this stage, yes."
After four top-10 finishes in Europe and the US this season, Harrington's season was interrupted last month by minor knee surgery. He returned last week at the St Jude Classic in Memphis with an opening round of 65 but trailed off in subsequent rounds as he battled fatigue and intense heat.
"Three weeks today I was under the knife. I had arthroscopic surgery on my right knee.," he said. "It's responded well, I'm comfortable, while it needs a certain amount of minding and I have to look after it, it's not posing any problem to me playing golf.
"It needs me to ice it and get physio on it and to do my exercises and all that sort of stuff but it's not affecting my golf. Maybe I'm not hitting the ball or going at it as hard as I could because of that, but that's not needed, either. It's delicate, but it's not inhibiting me."