Harrington dines in midtown Manhattan

Padraig Harrington, who’s in New York this week for the Barclays at Ridgewood Country Club in nearby Paramus, N.J., was spotted having dinner last night at Bobby Van's Steakhouse in Midtown. (Our source? David DeNunzio, managing editor for instruction at Golf Magazine.) Harrington got a brief greeting from fans at the bar and then quietly went to his table, no doubt planning his strategy for this week’s tournament. If he were  a boxer, like his buddy on the Irish Olympic squad, his nickname would be “the Silent Assassin.”