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Star-gazer Jimmy Walker made it four maiden Major Champion’s this season and for a first time in five years by capturing the rain-affected PGA Championship at Baltusrol. The Texas-born Walker was a gleaming ‘Lone Star’ leading from start-to-finish and including playing 36-holes on the closing day to win by a single shot with last round 68 for a 14-under par tally. Thunderstorms on Saturday left Walker and nine others staring at two rounds on the last day of the year’s final Major and ...

Padraig Harrington will head to the Rio Olympics later this week a strong chance to deliver Ireland a medal after his rousing finish in the rain-affected PGA Championship at Baltusrol Harrington upstaged his more fancied compatriots to be the only one Emerald Isle golfer among six to make the cut in the year’s final Major in New Jersey in posting rousing closing scores of 65 and 68. The former PGA winner had taken full advantage of the softer Baltusrol layout producing a third round 65 to equal ...

Ariya Jutanugarn made history on Sunday when she became the first Thai golfer – man or woman – to win a major title with a final round 72 and a 16 under par 272 total at the Women’s British Open. Two ahead at the start of the final round, Ariya’s lead was six shots by the time she birdied the the long second and short sixth and she looked to be striding confidently to victory. But she had to survive a great second half challenge from playing partner Lee Mirim before securing ...

Padraig Harrington had good cause to be happy and not because he managed to complete his round before bad weather ruined the third round and preventing the final groups from starting their rounds on Saturday. Harrington’s five under par 65 was his equal lowest ever in 69 Major appearances since making his Major’s debut in the 1996 US Open, and matching a 65 he shot during last year’s Open Championship at St. Andrews. His PGA Championship prior best had been a closing pair of 66s ...

Rory McIlroy ruined his perfect PGA Championship record missing the cut with a clumsy finish in the year’s final major at Baltusrol in New Jersey. The two-time PGA winner had not sat out the weekend rounds in seven prior PGA Championships but McIlroy spoilt that stat with a miserable bogey from the middle of the fairway at the last in a round of 69 for a three over par tally. McIlroy went into the Baltusrol second round lying well back placed in 120th spot on the board before finally knocking ...

Sweden’s Henrik Stenson is on track to follow in the footsteps of Rory McIlroy after posting a second straight 67 to take the clubhouse lead on six under par after two days of the PGA Championship at Baltusrol. Stenson recovered from a poor start to remain on course for back-to-back major titles to finish a shot clear of Ryder Cup team-mate Martin Kaymer and America’s Patrick Reed, whose 65 equalled the lowest score of the week. If Stenson were successful in capturing the PGA Championship ...

Former PGA winner Padraig Harrington was the best of the three Irish out in the morning half of the draw and shooting a one over par 71 and likening his effort to putting on his beloved Stackstown course in suburban Dublin. “I didn’t putt very well at all and I need to free myself up a bit of the greens as there is plenty of slope, they’re reasonably quick and they’re a bit like putting at Stackstown,” he said. Harrington’s round was a mix of three birdies, two bogeys and a fourth hole ...