Triple Major winning Padraig Harrington is now just one place away from slipping out of the top 100 in golf’s World Rankings.

The Dubliner has fallen to 99th and lowest position in more than 14 years.

Harrington had broken into the top-100 for the very first time in the opening week of October 1996 when he moved from 104th on the rankings and into 95th after finishing 8th in the Linde German Masters.

However he dropped out of the top-100 for a spell from 12th July, 1998 to 25th April, 1999 and ever since Harrington has been inside the top-100 and climbing as high as No. 3 in February, 2009.

Harrington has not won a main Tour title since capturing his third Major – 2008 PGA Championship – and it is his exemption in winning at Oakland Hills that has been keeping him in the Majors.

He returned to Europe recently after failing to qualify for the PGA Tour’s Play-Off Series but that has not gone to plan as he finished well down in the Omega European Masters, missed the halfway cut in the KLM Open and then despite a day three 64 at St. Andrews finished 40th something in the Alfred Dubhill Links Championship and an event he’s won twice.