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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 ...

While most eyes were on Phil Mickelson, Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama also moved into contention to add another historic chapter to his golfing CV and that’s to capture back-to-back majors. Japan continues to bask in the glory of Matsuyama’s maiden major championship triumph at the Masters and now the golf-mad nation could be savouring a second in just as many majors should he succeed in the PGA Championship. The last player to win back-to-back Majors was Jordan Spieth in capturing the 2015 Masters ...

Golfing history beckons for Phil Mickelson heading into the weekend rounds of the 103rd PGA Championship. A second round three-under par 69, that included five birdies over his closing eight holes, handed Mickelson the clubhouse lead at five-under par before being joined by fellow Open champion Louis Oosthuizen (68) on the windswept Ocean Course at Kiawah Island. Just a shot back is 2018 and ’19 back-to-back PGA winner Brooks Koepka (71). Mickelson’s lofty position, and just a month shy of his ...

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 ...

A ‘bullish’ Padraig Harrington needed all his experience of now 21 PGA Championships to fight his way into the weekend rounds at Kiawah Island. Harrington ended a run of three missed cuts in the championship he won in 2008 with rounds of 71 and 73 for a 36-hole level par tally on a continuing testing windswept Kiawah Island course. The Dubliner grabbed three birdies but posted four bogeys to finish just inside the top-30 and trailing five shots behind early clubhouse leader, Phil Mickelson. Mickelson, ...