Padraig Harrington's abysmal run of form continued when he missed the cut at the French Open on Friday, trailing 15 shots behind second-round leader Rafa Echenique of Argentina. Echenique, runner-up at last week's BMW International Open, carded a four-under 67 for a 10-under total of 132. Germany's Martin Kaymer (72), South African Charl Schwartzel (66) and Britain's Steve Webster (65) shared second spot on 134 but Harrington missed his fifth successive cut after limping to a 75 for 147, five over. A triple-bogey eight on the 14th after he went out of bounds at the National course near Versailles ended the triple major winner's hopes of regaining some confidence ahead of his British Open title defence at Turnberry, Scotland in two weeks' time. The 38-year-old Irishman ran up 66 putts in his two rounds here and it is his touch on and around the greens that is troubling him the most. “I'll be hitting plenty of putts and wedge shots over the next few days, you can be sure,” Harrington told reporters after missing the cut by four strokes. “I've certainly shown a weakness in my putting this week, it got on top of me.”
