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.
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.
Then, he went to the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits with a chance to join Ben Hogan and Tiger Woods as the only players to win three majors in 1 year. More than a caddie, Swatton helped Day, a troubled youth, turn his life around and eventually grab one of golf’s...
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“.
Only the top 125 players will make it to The Barclays, the first playoff event, which means he probably needs a victory in his first visit here. If not, then I’ve got a big break.
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.
Golf: Tiger Woods confirmed his participation in this week’s Wyndham Championship, after previously hedging his bet on whether he would play the PGA Tour event in North Carolina.
As things stand, Lahiri would be an automatic selection for the Internationals team to take on holders the United States in Incheon, South Korea from October 8-11.
“Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing, I don’t know”, he said. But both decisions are the counterintuitive acts of a prodigy who is determined to balance work and play, maximize his talent yet cling to his boyhood and avoid becoming too over-serious...