P�draig Harrington paid a flying visit to Graceland before leaving Memphis for Pittsburgh. Karl MacGinty tracked him from Southwind to Oakmont and discovered the Irish ace is ready to get us �All Shook Up� at the US Open

MISSING the cut at The Stanford St Jude Championship probably was more of a blessing than a devil in disguise for P�draig Harrington.

For a start, it gave him and his family an opportunity to go on a guided tour of Graceland, the palatial former home of Elvis, King of Rock and Roll.

Elvis died in August 1977, a fortnight before Harrington's sixth birthday, so the Dubliner could not be expected to have any Elvis 'records' on the juke box at his Rathmichael home.

However, with 500,000 visitors a year, Graceland is America's Canterbury and Camelot rolled into one and on Saturday afternoon Harrington was drawn across its threshold more by curiosity than anything else.

"It's a world-famous attraction and I'm delighted I got the chance to see it," explained the Dubliner before he boarded a flight for Pittsburgh, where this week's US Open will be played at another American monument to excess - the sadistically difficult golf course at Oakmont.