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Despite what looked like some on-course controversy five-time Major Champion Phil Mickelson defended the decision to call Rory McIlroy and Bernd Wiesberger through on the final hole of the PGA Championship. Mickelson and playing partner Rickie Fowler teed off the 18th hole but with McIlroy and Wiesberger on the tee, the American pair then moved to the side of the 18th fairway to allow McIlroy and the Austrian tee off. But then when up near the green Mickelson looked to be in conversation with a PGA ...

RORY MCILROY – WITH HIS 96th PGA CHAMPIONSHIP SUCCESS It is McIlroy’s ninth European Tour International Schedule victory in his 140th European Tour event. It extends his lead at the top of the Official World Golf Ranking. He goes to 11.2701. It is also his  fourth European Tour victory of the 2014 season, following the BMW PGA Championship, The 143rd Open Championship and WGC – Bridgestone Invitational. (Is the first time he has won four times in a European Tour season and is the ...

Rory McIlroy emerged from near darkness to become golf’s heavyweight world champion in capturing a fourth Major Championship in winning the 96th PGA Championship in Louisville, Kentucky. In the hometown of legendary Muhammad Ali, the final round of golf’s season-ending Major turned into slugging match among four of the world’s top players. But it was the 25-year old McIlroy who was the last man standing in a dramatic last day trading punch for punch before knocking out five-time Major winner ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy joked he would be prepared to wait to next week if needed to lift the PGA Championship trophy. Heavy rain mid-morning has seen McIlroy’s final round tee time pushed back from 2.55pm local time and will now not tee up to 4.19pm local time on the Valhalla course. The Kentucky course was deluged under an inch of rain forcing an hour and 45 minutes delay to the final round of the season-ending 96th PGA Championship. “I would be happy to wait here all week if it means ...

Marc Warren and former Aviemore champ Brooks Koepka stormed into the early clubhouse lead on day three of the PGA Championship and with Koepka revealing his step-mother has held a long-time crush on Colin Montgomerie. Warren birdied his closing three holes and coming from a share of 53rd place on the first tee and into a then tied for 10th place with five under par 66 in sometimes driving rain for a similar five under par tally in suburban Louisville, Kentucky. The Glaswegian was joined some 30 minutes ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy served notice he’s not about to let go of a second Rodman Wanamaker Trophy by holing a seven-foot birdie putt at his last hole to break clear of his rivals for a one shot lead heading to the final round of the 96th PGA Championship at Valhalla. After finding a greenside bunker with his 5-iron second shot, the triple Major winner kept alive the goal of capturing a second straight Major Championship with a second straight round of 67 to move to 13-under par in the season’s ...

Triple Major winning Padraig Harrington could be forced to draw on a special one-time exemption if he is to compete full time on next year’s PGA Tour. After missing the halfway cut in this week’s 96th PGA Championship, Harrington was headed to Greensboro in North Carolina and needing to finish top-two in the $5.3m Wyndham Championship if he is to retain full tour membership rights for the start of the up-coming 2014/15 PGA Tour wraparound schedule. Harrington has been competing full-time ...