John Richardson was a typical weekend golfer who enjoyed the game but couldn't break one hundred. But he differed from the average 24-handicapper in one crucial way. He was determined to break par within a year at the local golf course.
The day was essentially a two horse race between Jordan Spieth and Jason Day, as these two young revelations battled it out to add the PGA Championship to their list of honours.
He took his time but he got there. Jason Day's major road to glory: From drunk 12 year old to PGA champion...
Anirban Lahiri has been in the mix all week, but we think he has been slightly ignored with all the other drama going on around him, which doesn’t seem quite fair given his achievements this week.
Well, how do you wrap up a day like that? One of the most compelling days of top-drawer golf we have ever witnessed. We will try!
Dustin Johnson is really good at golf as he proved at the PGA Championship. Much better than us definitely, and when he's on top form there are very few who can keep up with him around Whistling Straits. We broke his first round down into numbers.
Martin Kaymer, Germany's two-time major winner on how winning the US PGA Championship at Whistling Straits at such a young age helped him to kick on to bigger and better things.
These are some of the very best shots ever played at the US PGA Championship. Not all of them lead to the victory, but every one was struck in the heat of battle.
So designing golf clubs is a job for rocket scientists and engineers, rather than good golfers. However there is a exception to the rule. Marty Jertson, Ping's Senior Design Engineer is also really good at golf. Like silly good.
It was Danny Lee who was the first round leader with a sensational five under par 65. The New Zealander mixed seven birdies with two bogeys to top the leaderboard. After already winning the Greenbrier Classic last month the in form 25 year old looks like could go all the way and win his first World Golf Championship at Firstone Country Club.
Michael Jordan not only dances like your cool dad, he has his own line of golf shoes...
So the world's worst thieves have struck a golf club in Wales. Taking a leaf out of the Home Alone robbers playbook, 1,000 range balls have been stolen from a ball dispenser at Southerndown Golf Club in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
