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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 ...

St. Louis, Missouri … England’s Ross Fisher got his first look at this week’s 100th PGA Championship host course and he clearly liked what he saw. Fisher accompanied fellow Irish Open winner Russell Knox of Scotland in playing the front nine of the Bellerive course located to the north-west of St. Louis, Missouri. The duo, and like all other players in the field this week, were greeted by 100 degree Fahrenheit temperatures and with large electrical fans in operation behind the greens ...

St. Louis, Missouri … Rory McIlroy hit the Bellerive practice range Monday in searing 100-degree F temperatures looking to pick-up the pieces from Sunday’s Bridgestone meltdown. He hit balls for about an hour in the sauna-like conditions before heading to downtown St. Louis to join Sergio Garcia and Tommy Fleetwood again hitting balls under the famed ‘Gateway to the West’ arch located on the banks of the Mississippi River. He tees-up this week a double champion in the 100th staging ...

Akron, Ohio … Tiger Woods returns this week to St. Louis and the Bellerive Country Club 17-years after being ‘pulled from the course’ on the day of the 9/11 terror attacks. Woods was out practicing in the Missouri capital ahead of the 2001 WGC – AMEX Championship when the World Trade Centre was brought down by two terrorist manned airliners. AMEX event organisers wasted little time cancelling the event in the wake of the terrorist attack on New York and Washington and ...