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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.

What’s he going to do?

Australia’s Jason Day created history, and prevented Jordan Spieth from doing so, by ending a run of near-misses with a brilliant first major victory in the U.S. PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Sheboygan, Wisconsin on Sunday. Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Day are Nos.

Rory McIlroy was nervous about his game.

The 2015 PGA Championship fourth round is Sunday at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin. That is how it seemed on a benign day Saturday when all of a sudden, nerves took over, and so did Jordan Spieth.

“And I still have plenty of golf to be played for the rest of the year on a global level”.

That’s not going to happen this weekend at Whistling Straits, as Woods has officially missed the cut and won’t be playing in the final two rounds of yet another Major.

Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Tiger Woods misses the cut after getting back on course Saturday in weather-delayed PGA.

“I’m not surprised the narrative has went from me to Jordan, ” McIlroy said. The previous mark belonged to Woods, who was 19 under when he won the 2000 British Open at St. Andrews. Go to pgatourlive.com or download the first of its kind live golf streaming app...

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.

But after a brilliant final round of five-under par 67 in the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, the 27-year-old erased the demons to claim his first major, the Wanamaker Trophy.

KOHLER, Wisconsin Australian Jason Day used a red-hot run around the turn and a solid finish to seize a two-shot lead over Jordan Spieth after a pulsating third round of low scoring at the PGA Championship on Saturday.

Day is the fifth Australian to win the PGA title and the 12th to win a major championship — the first since Adam Scott in the 2013 Masters.