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In the 57 years of stroke play at the PGA Championship, only two players were more shots under par. If anything, just around the greens and being more efficient, really.

Tiger Woods, coming off missed cuts at the U.S. and British Open, was among the early starters. He had nine birdies, his most in 347 major rounds.

Woods figured he’d be back home in Florida in time to do what most golf fans were planning to do – watch the leaders tee off.

“I believe I can find that extra one or two per cent to get me over the line when I’m in contention again”. “And where I was based, I mean it wasn’t the greatest place”.

“Only way you can do that is by playing”, he said.

His rating of 17 underneath par wasn’t fairly ok to overhaul Jason Day on the PGA Championship, however runner-up Jordan Spieth walks away with a pleasant comfort.

Tiger Woods, only looking for improvement?

Woods had committed to the coming week’s Wyndham Championship, his hand forced by the Friday night entry deadline, but his comments after his round Saturday suggested that he might be prepared to call it a season after 28 rounds spread over 10 events. Woods’ dominance...

Day is the first Australian to win a major since Adam Scott picked up the 2013 Masters and only the fifth to win the PGA Championship after Steve Elkington (1995), Wayne Grady (1990), David Graham (1979) and Jim Ferrier (1947). The stats obviously supported that view – the...

His win moves him to number 3 in the world but Day said he was not done just yet: “I still want to accomplish that No. 1 goal of mine, which is to be the best player in the world“.

“The first two (tournaments) were not very good at all“. But he will be looking over his shoulder at a strong field closing in behind.

Northern Irishman McIlroy, now aged 26, won the last two majors of 2014 and the remarkable Spieth, who celebrated his 22nd birthday last month, clinched the first two majors this year before tying for fourth at the British Open and finishing second behind Day at the PGA...

He followed his best round since 2013 – a first-day 64 – with one nearly as good.

A stress-free day, the Wisconsin player called it.

Spieth and Day could rattle those numbers though if they keep performing like this. Day rose to third. Day is the old man in the group. Spieth is just 22. In spite of the tension and the stakes, they actually talked and laughed with each other.