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Who to watch (aside from LIV players) at this year’s second golf major

Who to watch (aside from LIV players) at this year’s second golf major

The PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in New York starts on May 18. US Masters winner Jon Rahm must be the favourite, but Jason Day is a dark horse.

A view of the 18th hole at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York. Getty

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The most important thing we learnt from the US Masters last month was that golfers from the rebel Saudi-backed LIV tour remain a force to be reckoned with in world golf.

Many thought that the shortened annual program for the 48 LIV players, the 54-hole tournaments they play and the mind-boggling sums of money they were paid to join the breakaway tour (quite apart from the amounts they are playing for each time they tee up) would cause them to become lazy, unprepared and disinterested.

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