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St. Louis, Missouri …. As one of the favourites for this week’s PGA Championship, Southport’s Tommy Fleetwood doesn’t have a great record in the Majors. In fact, Fleetwood’s played a dozen majors since making his debut in the 2014 Open Championship and missed the cut in half including two of his three PGA Championship appearances. But you look at Fleetwood’s peformances on the European and PGA Tour’s and that speaks another sory. The current European No. ...

St. Louis, Missouri … Padraig Harrington’s ‘fear of God’ demeanour over the final few holes in capturing the 2008 PGA Championship has been replaced 10-years on with a fear of simply getting off to a good start at Bellerive. Harrington captured a third Major Championship and a second in two weeks by again denying Spain’s Sergio Garcia along with American Ben Curtis to win the 90th PGA Championship at Oakland Hills in suburban Detroit. The proud Dubliner rebounded from opening ...

St. Louis, Missouri …. Paul Dunne has ruled out any thought of contesting the end-of-season Web.com final series and the likelihood of earning his PGA Tour card. Dunne tees-up tomorrow (THUS) is his first PGA Championship but struggling to find the form that earned him victory in last year’s British Masters and a share of success earlier this year in the Golf Sixes. As well, there’s back-to-back top-10s earlier this year on the PGA Tour and with his PGA Tour earnings this year a few thousand ...

St. Louis, Missouri … What is the odds of Zach Johnson finding himself grouped with Zach Johnson on any of the two weekend rounds in this week’s 100th PGA Championship. Let me explain as it’s quite simple. There is two Zach Johnson’s competing this week at Bellerive in suburban St. Louis. One is the 42-year old double Major winning Johnson born in Iowa City, Iowa and now residing at St. Simons Island in Georgia. The other is the 35-year old born in Salt Lake City, Utah who found his ...

St. Louis, Missouri … “Blessed.  Very blessed”. This was Tiger Woods response ahead of this week’s 100th PGA Championship on the Bellerive course in St. Louis, Missouri. Woods is contesting the PGA Championship for a first occasion since 2015 when he missed the cut for a second straight year. The now 42-year old is a four-time PGA Championship winner having won the event in 1999, 2000, 2006 and 2007. This week is Woods’ 19th appearance in the event since making his debut in 1997.  ...

St. Louis, Missouri … Rory McIlroy insists he remains an ‘eternal optimist’ as he strives this week to end a four-year Majors victory drought and become a three per-cent victory component in the 100th PGA Championship celebrations. McIlroy’s pre-PGA Championship plans, and that of his fellow Bellerive competitors, have been thrown into somewhat disarray when the heatwave conditions of Monday gave way to fierce electrical storms and stoppages on Tuesday. McIlroy managed to just play ...

St. Louis, Missouri … European Ryder Cup captain, Thomas Bjorn has paid Rory McIlroy the ultimate compliment saying he would pay to watch the four-time Major winner play. Bjorn was speaking ahead of this week’s 100th PGA Championship being staged at the Bellerive Country Club course in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. However, after century high temperatures greeted players on Monday and the first day of official practice, the course was closed early Tuesday local time due to thunderstorms ...