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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, ...

Weather: Mostly sunny. High of 77. Wind E 14-17 mph, with gusts to 20 mph. First-Round Leaderboard Corey Conners                         67 (-5) Keegan Bradley                        69 (-3) Viktor Hovland                          69 (-3) Brooks Koepka                         69 (-3) Aaron Wise                               69 (-3) Sam Horsfield                           69 (-3) Cam Davis               ...

Near on a decade ago after a then fresh-faced, curly-haired Rory McIlroy strode triumphantly down the final hole to win his second major and Kiawah Island regained some revenge with McIlroy posting an error-filled three-over par 75 on the 103rd hosting of the PGA Championship. It’s not the first time he’s shot 75 at Kiawah as he posted that same score on day two in 2012 but that was in ‘would blow a dog of a chain’ conditions on the severely windswept Atlantic Ocean course.  It was also ...

Martin Laird sent the Scottish flag to the top of the board with four brilliant late opening round birdies in succession in a gutsy two-under par 70 on day one of the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. Laird, 38, grabbed seven birdies in total, including four on the trot from the 13th hole, before a pair of closing bogeys in increasingly windy conditions alongside the Atlantic Ocean in South Carolina. The effort, and in Laird’s first PGA Championship in four years, handed the now Denver-based ...

Scotland’s top-ranked Robert MacIntyre was returning to his rented apartment and back to bed following a 4.45am wake-up call and then walking off his final green some nine hours later with a disappointing three-over par 75 on the opening day of the PGA Championship. The effort, and in only MacIntyre’s second PGA Championship, saw him finish in a then clubhouse share of 68th place MacIntyre was one-under after brilliant holing 18-foot birdie at the 13th , and the fourth hole of his round, ...

Martin Laird is eager to make a better impression in returning to Kiawah Island where nine-years ago he recorded a best finish in the PGA Championship. Laird, 38, finished just inside the top-50 in the 2012 championship but since then he has contested just three of the eight ensuing PGA Championships. Though the good news for the Denver-based Scot is he’s coming off a best result on the four majors with his T38th effort at Augusta National. He said: “It’s always nice to play in a major but ...

Bryson DeChambeau could not have put it any clearer in declaring he’s ready to ‘unleash the beast’ at this week’s 103rd staging of the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. The ‘Beast’?   The now 27-old American standing 1.85 metres and weighing 111 kilograms, currently the longest off the tee on the PGA Tour, the reigning US Open champion, the current World No. 5 and staring at tackling the longest course in the history of the men’e majors now among the favourites ...