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Padraig Harrington will head to Augusta National next April eagerly looking to become the oldest winner of the Masters. In sharing fourth place at the PGA Championship, Harrington qualified not only for next month’s US Open but the 2022 Masters and in what now be a first return to Augusta National in seven years since he last drove down Magnolia Lane. Harrington and fellow Irishman Shane Lowry were together in the same group heading out sharing 24th place for last Sunday’s final round of ...

While full of praise for Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka was highly critical of crowd control measures at the final hole of the 103rd PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. PGA Championship organisers allowed 10,000 fans a day to attend the championship and the majority seemed to flood onto the final fairway in scenes reminiscent of Tiger Woods 2018 Tour Championship triumph in suburban Atlanta. And while Mickelson spoke afterwards saying … “It was a little bit unnerving but it was exceptionally awesome, ...

Padraig Harrington laughed off any suggestions of teeing-up later this year at the Ryder Cup following a best finish in the majors in eight years. Harrington, 49, brilliantly rolled back the years to post a final round 69 and a score matched by playing partner and countryman Shane Lowry to be then tied for clubhouse lead but technically sharing fourth place at the 103rd PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. The fellow Open Champions began the last round at one-over par and after the closing 18 holes ...

A bitterly disappointed Robert MacIntyre can return home with his head held high despite a bitter 71st hole blow at the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. MacIntyre, 24, again continued to impress in firstly making it five halfway cuts from as many majors on Friday and then holding his own over the weekend to eventually sign for one over par 73 and an eventual five-over par tally. After the clear disappointment of bogeying the last a day earlier, MacIntyre burst from the blocks on day four with a ...

Phil Mickelson may be on his way to a historic PGA Championship triumph but he was leaving nothing to chance and also creating history of another kind early on day three at Kiawah Island. Mickelson has chosen a 6-iron and was about to play his second shot at the par-4 fourth hole when he spotted a drone in the South Carolina sky. The drone was not making a noise as it was well in the distance as he prepared to play a shot of 178-yards into a 12mph wind. Bizarrely, the drone was in Mickelson’s ...

Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre’s determined to challenge the expected 30mph winds predicted could wreak havoc over the final round of the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. MacIntyre had superbly made it five halfway cuts from five majors in finding his way into the weekend rounds and was rock solid for 17 holes before the bitter disappointment of a bogey at the last in a third round of a level par 72. The effort dropped the top-ranked Scot back to four-over to head to the clubhouse just outside ...

Shane Lowry pulled-off the par saves of all par saves from the Kiawah Island beachfront on day two of the 103rd PGA Championship, Lowry’s brilliant par near mid-round, and coming after he’d dropped a shot the hole before, helped the Clara golfer posting a one-under par 70 and get back to level par in the increasingly windy conditions in South Carolina. The reigning Open Champion ended his round just outside the top-20 and tied in the clubhouse with fellow Irishman Padraig Harrington. Lowry’s ...