PGA Tour — South Africa’s Charl Schwartzel made a par at the first extra hole to deny Bill Haas and claim the Valspar Championship at Innsbrook.

Just 10 days after ending a near seven-year drought with a brilliant performance on the greens down the stretch, Pádraig Harrington found himself back in the desert on the PGA Tour following a poor putting show in the opening round of the Valspar Championship.

On Monday Pádraig Harrington was on such a high following his Honda Classic comeback win that he insisted he'd honour his commitments and take up four sponsors invitations in a row before playing in the Masters. Now he's not so sure.

Ambition is one thing, love is another. In explaining what he thinks ails John Daly, the former US PGA and Open champion who shot 90 in his company in the second round of the Valspar Championship at Copperhead last Friday, Pádraig Harrington dismissed any notion that the Wild Thing had been a distraction in his own struggle to make the cut.

Pádraig Harrington will have been encouraged to see John Senden end a seven-year PGA Tour drought in the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook.

Pádraig Harrington was heading for his first sub-par Saturday round on the PGA Tour for more than nine months when he got bitten in the Snake Pit at Innisbrook Resort's Copperhead Course.

For a while it looked as though Pádraig Harrington would miss yet another cut by a shot but he overcame having to watch playing partner John Daly shoot 90 by making a gutsy birdie at the 18th to survive on the limit in the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook.