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Rory McIlroy was forced to swallow a double dose of pain in first not being PGA Championship competitive and then losing his World No. 1 crown to Jordan Spieth. McIlroy left Whistling Straits in 17th place after a final round 69 for a nine under par total in sweltering conditions along the Lake Michigan shoreline in upstate Wisconsin. McIlroy posted back-to-back birdies at six and seven before a birdie at 10 ahead of dropping his only shot at the 13th and picking off a 16th birdie of his week at ...

JASON DAY – WITH HIS 97TH US PGA CHAMPIONSHIP VICTORY • His second European Tour International Schedule victory in his 39th European Tour event. • Moves to third in the Official World Golf Ranking from fifth. • His first European Tour victory since the 2014 WGC – Cadillac Match Play Championship. • The first time he has won in consecutive European Tour seasons. Jason DAY (AUS) becomes the forth Australian-born player to win the PGA Championship – Picture Eoin Clarke, ...

Aussie Jason Day finally rid the Major’s monkey from his back and created golfing history with a three shot victory in the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits. Day, 27 withstood the meltdown conditions and a determined Jordan Spieth barrage to also win for a second time in three weeks after capturing the Canadian Open, a week after the bitter disappointment of missing The Open championship play-off by a single stroke. The Ohio-based Day, who grew-up in rural Queensland admiring double major winning ...

There is lucky sausages and there is lucky sausages but I was surprised to find a meat shop in nearby Port Washington bearing my name – Bernie’s Meats. Check out the pics and thanks to everyone ‘back home’, including young Nikki and Jamie in chilly Bathurst, for the warm birthday wishes. I may just decide to throw a sausage on the ole barbie over here in what has been heatwave conditions in upstate Wisconsin.

This week’s PGA Championship is not only the fifth anniversary of my first visit to Whislting Straits but it also marks five years I first visited – The Bog Golf Club. Dear friend and colleague Karl McGinty and myself inspected The Bog during the 2010 PGA Championship. Karl and I had commented on the ‘Come and visit the Bog Golf Course’ sign each day as we drove north to Whistling Straits and then one morning we took the short drive to the course. However five years on, and ...

For Australian Jason Day his day is near and now just one round away from finally becoming a Major Champion. And it could not be more poignant for Day and on the 20th anniversary of the last Australian-born golfer to capture the PGA Championship, and that being Steve Elkington in 1995 at Riviera. Day will take a two shot lead into the final round of the US PGA Championship but he will have to hold off a strong chasing pack to claim a first Major Championship. The Queensland-born Day grabbed an eagle, ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy singled out a ‘lack of competitiveness’ in a un-McIlroy like third round in the PGA Championship. McIlroy will head into the last day of the last Major of 2015 trailing nine strokes behind Australia’s Jason Day who posted a six under par 66 to take a two shot lead into the final round. The four-time Major winning McIlroy got the start he wanted to be four under par after just six holes and capped by holing a monster 64-foot eagle putt from the back of the ...