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The 22-year-old reigning Masters and US Open champion stumbled to a two-over 73 which meant he missed consecutive cuts as an amateur or professional on the USPGA Tour the first time in his young career.

Bubba Watson charged into a tie for the first-round lead at The Barclays on Thursday while newly crowned world number one Jordan Spieth struggled to his worst score of the year in relation to par.

“I need to go out there (today) and make a run and get myself up there and make some birdies”, Woods said.

“I’m glad that we are in”, said Day.

The 51-year-old Love closed with a 6-under 64 for a one-stroke victory over Jason Gore.

The only player to win on the PGA Tour older than Love III or Wall was Sam Snead at 52 years and 10 months, ironically, at the 1965 Wyndham Championship.

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.

While a Wyndham win would go a long way to bolstering Woods’ battered psyche, if not quiet the expanding crowd of armchair swing coaches, it’s what an 11th-hour walk-off would do for his competitive fortunes that may be more interesting.

“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”.

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?

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...

Day held off a challenge from the American to win the title, carding a record score of 20 under par after 72 holes, the first time a golfer has scored that low in a major championship.

Five strokes off the pace after the second round at a sun-baked Whistling Straits, the Masters and U.S. Open champion fired a bogey-free seven-under-par 65 to vault within two strokes of Australian leader Jason Day.

And yet, this isn’t about the incredible season that Jordan Spieth’s had.