Gold Coast’s Elvis Smylie will make his US major tournament debut after being granted a special exemption to play the US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in North Carolina from May 15-18.
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Smylie’s late addition is his latest reward for winning the 2024-2025 Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit.
Read MoreTwo clutch up-and-downs at the closing two holes see Xander Schauffele finally become a major champion.
Xander Schauffele made two clutch up-and-downs at the final two holes to win the 2024 PGA Championship. After Bryson DeChambeau threw his umpteenth fist pump for the week after making birdie on the 18th hole to get to 20-under par, Schauffele needed to finish 4-4 to claim his maiden major title.
Read MoreScottie Scheffler, the world’s top-ranked golfer, was arrested on Friday morning after arriving at Valhalla Golf club ahead of his second round of the PGA Championship.
The arrest came after a traffic stop led to a confrontation with a police officer. Scheffler, 27, was charged with four counts including assault, and reckless driving.
Read MoreA keen fisherman, Cam Smith was keen to play his golf ball as it lies from the water.
It seems there isn’t a major golf tournament that goes by without Cameron Smith playing at least one ridiculously incredible golf shot.
Does anyone remember Cam Smith’s fairway wood from the bunker at The Masters?
Read MoreXander Schauffele produced a record-setting opening round of the 2024 PGA Championship but Cameron Smith isn’t far behind.
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Cameron Smith tops the Australian challenge at the PGA Championship at Valhalla, where American Xander Schauffele recorded a course record 62 to sit 9-under with a three-shot lead over Sahith Theegala, Tony Finau and Mark Hubbard.
Read MoreGolf Channel analysts left seething after Jon Rahm suggested he still considers himself a PGA Tour player.
Jon Rahm’s recent remarks have ignited a firestorm of controversy within golfing circles, as he navigates the PGA Tour-LIV Golf fracture.
Despite his defection to LIV Golf, Rahm adamantly asserts his continued support for the PGA Tour, claiming, “I’m still a PGA Tour member, whether suspended or not.
Read MoreSix Australian golfers are hoping to end an 8-year stretch of American dominance at this week’s US PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club.
All eyes are on the Valhalla Golf Club this week as six Australian golfers gear up to challenge for the PGA Championship. In a tournament historically dominated by American players, the last eight winners have hailed from the United States, with Brooks Koepka clinching the title three times and Justin Thomas twice within the past decade.
Read MoreThe 2024 US PGA Championship arrives at Valhalla Club in Kentucky this week, and FoxSports and Kayo have the live broadcast.
Six Australians are part of the confirmed field for the second major of 2024, the US PGA Championship.
Cameron Davis, Cameron Smith, Jason Day, Min Woo Lee, Lucas Herbert and Adam Scott will tee it up at Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky which last hosted a major in 2014 when Rory McIlroy won the PGA Championship beating Phil Mickelson by a single shot.
Read MoreBrooks Koepka leads by one stroke going into the final round of the 2023 PGA Championship.
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West Australian Min Woo Lee has maintained his position inside the top 10 on the leaderboard as driving rain made the US PGA Championship challenge at Oak Hill even tougher in Round 3.
Read MoreTwo Australians in the field for the 2023 PGA Championship finished in the top-10 last time it was held at Oak Hill in 2013. And both are in great form as they arrive at the second major of the year.
The 2023 PGA Championship, the second major golf tournament of the year, tees off this week.
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