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May 2024

Lee and Day make big moves after dramatic Scheffler arrest

Magical Min Woo Lee and Jason Day have made big moves to revive Australian hopes at the drama-charged PGA Championship in Kentucky.

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  • Darrn Walton

April 2024

Scheffler in Tiger terrain after commanding Masters win

Much more than shed his tag as a one-major wonder, Scheffler’s third victory of the year has placed him in Tiger Woods-like company.

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  • Darren Walton

July 2023

Jason Day in the rain. He now matches a host of luminaries as just the ninth player in the game’s history to be a runner-up at all four majors.

Big day for Australian golfer Jason Day as British Open runner-up

The 35-year-old Queenslander was left with the admirable consolation of joining an elite club as American Brian Harman took the Claret Jug in the driving rain.

  • Ian Chadband

May 2023

Jason Day during the final round of the Byron Nelson in Texas.

Emotional Jason Day breaks five-year PGA Tour drought

A year after losing his mum to cancer and tumbling outside the top 100, the Queenslander won his first PGA Tour event.

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  • Darren Walton
A strong contender? PGA Tour player Jon Rahm from Spain celebrates his win at Augusta in April.

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.

  • Richard Allen
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April 2023

Jon Rahm, of Spain, celebrates on the 18th green after winning the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club.

Jon Rahm wins riveting Masters in special day for Spain

The Spanish superstar’s success fittingly came on the 40th anniversary of his idol Seve Ballesteros’ second Masters win in 1983, and on what would have been the late Ballesteros’ 66th birthday.

  • Darren Walton
Masters leader and LIV Golf rebel Brooks Koepka.

LIV’s Koepka, PGA’s Rahm set for final round showdown

LIV Golf defector Brooks Koepka enters the final round of the US Masters with a four shot lead. Jason Day is the leading Australian, nine shots off the pace.

  • Darren Walton
Day plays a shot from a bunker on the fifth hole.

Day’s Masters hopes take big hit with late collapse

After dunking on ball into a water hazard and taking a dreaded double-bogey, Jason Day will need a miracle to contend for the green jacket.

  • Darren Walton
Min Woo Lee on a warm-up round ahead of his start in the US Masters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Adam Scott urges Min Woo Lee to seize the moment at US Masters

The Perth prodigy and Sydney amateur sensation Harrison Crowe will be the first Australians to hit the fabled fairways late on Thursday and early Friday (AEST).

  • Darren Walton

June 2021

Tiger Woods celebrates after sinking a putt for a birdie on the 18th hole in the final round to force a play-off with Rocco Mediate in the 2008 US Open at Torrey Pines. Woods went on to win the tournament, but won’t be there this year.

Golf’s greats line up for the US Open

If Tiger Woods can hoist the trophy on one leg, can Phil Mickelson bring it home as the tournament’s oldest winner?

  • Richard Allen

August 2020

Morikawa's swing

'What a shot': Upstart Morikawa, 23, wins PGA

The smooth-swinging Caliifornian playing in just his second major won the PGA Championship in the first big tournament in a season upended by COVID-19.

  • Brian Murphy

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