Defending champion Phil Mickelson has withdrawn from next week’s PGA Championship in Oklahoma. The 51-year-old became the oldest major winner in history last year when he won the PGA at Kiawah Island for his sixth career major title. He has not played since February after criticism of his comments about the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series and did not play in the Masters for the first time in 28 years. Mickelson been named in the 156-man field for golf’s second major of the […]
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Twenty years after his stunning victory at the 2002 PGA Championship, 51-year-old Rich Beem relives those four career-changing days at Hazeltine National and reveals what was going through his mind as Tiger mounted one of his famous Sunday charges Interview by Jack Martin Let’s scroll back two decades, to the moment you arrived at the 2002 PGA Championship. You’d won a PGA Tour event, The International, just two weeks earlier, and had a couple of other top-five finishes already that […]
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Rory McIlroy will play with fellow former champions Brooks Koepka and Justin Thomas in the first two rounds of the 103rd US PGA Championship, which gets under way today at Kiawah Island in South Carolina. McIlroy, who has won this title twice, including at this course in 2012, begins on the 10th tee on Thursday at 1.33pm (UK time). Defending champion Collin Morikawa is out with Hideki Matsuyama, who won the Masters in April, and last year’s US Open champion […]
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Rory McIlroy will play with fellow former champions Brooks Koepka and Justin Thomas in the first two rounds of the 103rd US...
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The PGA of America is to allow players the use distance-measuring devices during competition rounds at its three annual Major Championships – the PGA Championship, the Women’s PGA Championship and the Senior PGA Championship. Such devices, including laser rangefinders and GPS units, have previously been only allowed for practice rounds, but never for competitive rounds. The new rules will come into effect for 2021, starting with the PGA Championship that is scheduled to held at Kiawah Island in May. Any […]
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