Padraig Harrington, Sandra Palmer leads World Golf HOF class

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PINEHURST, N.C. -- Padraig Harrington grew up in Ireland dreaming more about claret jugs and the Wanamaker Trophy than the World Golf Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame is largely an American thing, though Harrington fully understood that it was a label attached to the very best. That was the case particularly on the PGA Tour Champions when he heard the "Hall of Fame" reference to so many of his peers, from Bernhard Langer and Vijay Singh, from Ernie Els to Fred Couples.

"You kind of look at these guys and and you want to be one of them. You want to be part of it," Harrington said. "And many of the guys on the Champions Tour, their careers were a little bit ahead of me…