Warm indoors. Harrington could freeze at Portmarnock LinksTriple Major winner Padraig Harrington will freeze in Portmarnock on Thursday as the rest of the PGA Tour stars begin the new season in sunny Hawaii.

The Dubliner, 37, will make his 2009 debut in the Links Golfing Society's winter league charity outing at Portmarnock Links when he could be playing for big money PGA Tour's curtain raising Mercedes-Benz Championship in Kapalua.

Limited to last year's tournament winners, the champion in Kapalua will take home $1.12m.

Instead he'll be playing for a good cause with the Links Golf Society, which has raised more than €10 million for charity over the past 11 years.