Harrington ready to go for broke

Padraig Harrington will go into the final round of the USPGA Championship ready to dispense with caution in his pursuit of two-shot leader Tiger Woods.

Harrington won the 2008 USPGA by two shots from Ben Curtis and Sergio Garcia at Oakland Hills, having trailed Curtis by three after the third round. Overturning Woods' lead over the final 18 holes in Minnesota, something no-one has achieved in 14 major championships, would be a different prospect and he said he would have to continue to be aggressive.

"The narrower the gap, the better," Harrington said. "If I have to take four shots over four days and I've taken two the first day, I suppose we're halfway there."

He added: "Obviously to get a win, you've got to beat him by three; that's a tall order, but as I said, everybody in the situation who is behind is going to think, 'well, we have nothing to lose'.

"You've got to have that attitude and I need to have that attitude.

"I've got to stand there on every shot and think to myself, 'well, so what if I hit a bad shot?'.

"I've got to have that attitude to just fire it up and go for those shots, and just be concerned about my good shots, and I'm going to catch three shots, that's the way to do it; certainly not to be in any shape or form cautious."

Harrington's bogey on the last on Saturday did cost him the chance of playing in the final pairing with Woods, who will play with YE Yang while he partners Henrik Stenson in Sunday's penultimate pairing, the Swede set to start the day at four under par.

The three-time major winner said he was not about to lose sleep over that.

"I think I don't have a choice," he said with a laugh. "So it doesn't really matter. I know if you're playing with (Tiger), it's kind of a bit like match play and if you're not playing with him you've got to play your own game."