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Jason Day has a good chance of heading into the third round of the PGA Championship with the lead. I saw that he was 16 under with four holes to go, thinking he could get to 17 pretty easily.

He did it, then raised both fists and buried his face in his caddie’s shoulder.

But even a compelling battle to win the 97th PGA Championship could not distract from the individual performance of Day, who exercised the demons from previous near-misses at numerous major championships to claim a belated victory. And now, his first career 54-hole lead in a...

He ended up only two shots behind and poised to join Tiger Woods (2000) and Ben Hogan (1953) as the only players to win three majors in one season.

To his credit, Day faced his first test late on Saturday. I need to make this to have a chance within four of the lead.

Grace, whose highlight of the day occurred when he holed his bunker shot on the 18th for birdie, now sits at 12-under par for the championship and in a tie for third.

There, Lee picked off like the previous five holes hadn’t even occurred, shooting four birdies in his first five holes to make up for some of his early morning losses and leap back up the leaderboard.

Several youngsters, strategically placed, got their man.

Asked what he had learned over the years about being in the lead at majors or trying to play catch-up, Johnson replied: “It doesn’t really bother me either way”.

Piercy has two birdies over his first five holes and now shares the lead with Johnson at 6 under par.

Tiger Woods struggled on the greens.

And the world No 278 repeatedly swore as he showed his frustration on the greens as he made five bogeys.

Dustin Johnson, back at the scene of the proverbial crime, admits that he has not brushed up on the local rules for the PGA Championship.

The final golf major of the year, the 2015 PGA Championship, teed off Thursday morning at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin.

So he laid up with a 5-iron. McIlroy said he felt great in warm-ups leading into the major and now he will tee off in the first round in the afternoon. “And it worked out”.