Harrington: bogey-free day

Then I came out today, played nicely, maybe not as good as yesterday in terms of striking but the odd missed shot, I got it up and down.

Padraig Harrington
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Padraig Harrington shot a best-of-the-week 67 on day two at the US Open then admitted he may have played better on his way to an opening 78.

The Open champion was bogey-free and made four birdies to haul himself back into contention. On Thursday he also had four birdies but added three double bogeys and four bogeys.

The Open champion told Sky Sports: "Strangely, I felt I played better yesterday. Obviously it was very difficult on the greens yesterday afternoon - they dried up, the sun was out - and I started missing putts. It was only going one way from there and it was putting a lot of pressure on the rest of my game. Every time I hit a slightly off shot I was making bogey and actually sometimes double bogey."

The Dubliner admitted he was able to get away with a number of errors on Friday.

"Then I came out today, played nicely, maybe not as good as yesterday in terms of striking but the odd missed shot, I got it up and down," he said.

"I holed that putt that I was missing yesterday and still made four birdies like yesterday, I just holed the odd par putt. When you are doing that it makes it so much easier, you are so much more accepting of the odd time slightly mis-hitting it. That's what I did today - I hit some nice shots but all my bad shots weren't really too bad."

Asked what he was hoping for over the weekend, he smilingly added: "Another two 67s on the weekend should do nicely."