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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, ...

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 ...