Most courses suit Rory McIlroy. Aronimink, site of the PGA Championship, is “absolutely perfect” for his game. And that’s coming from a rival’s caddie. Rex Hoggard and Ryan Lavner talk McIlroy and the PGA in the “Golf Channel Podcast with Rex and Lav.”
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By RICH LERNER
8/12/04 -- Just as shocking as all those low scores in Rd. 1 was the combined 12-over from John Daly and Tiger Woods.
8/12/04 -- Just as shocking as all those low scores in Rd. 1 was the combined 12-over from John Daly and Tiger Woods.
8/12/04 -- If this had been match play, John Daly’s wild adventure Thursday on the 18th hole at Whistling Straits would have cost him only one hole.
By GEORGE WHITE
8/12/04 - It’s a real challenge anymore to handicap the field at major championships.
8/12/04 - It’s a real challenge anymore to handicap the field at major championships.
8/12/04 - Greg Norman withdrew from the PGA Championship Thursday, meaning the possible end to is PGA Tour career.
8/12/04 -- On a course that reminds him of home, Northern Irelands Darren Clarke birdied his first four holes Thursday in a 7-under round of 65 for the early first-round lead at the PGA Championship.
8/11/04 -- Davis Love III did it. So did Payne Stewart and John Daly and Nick Price and Vijay Singh. Thirteen of the last 16 PGA Championship winners have been maiden major champions.
8/11/04 -- Smack in the middle of red barn and silo country, bordered by farmland as flat as a painter’s canvas, Pete Dye bulldozed a former army base and toxic waste dump into the closest thing to the Auld Sod that the New World has to offer.
8/11/04 -- Already billed as a major full of mystery, the PGA Championship got another surprise Wednesday.
8/11/04 -- Colin Montgomerie has always been more at ease playing for the flag than for fortune, so its no surprise his mind is more on the Ryder Cup than in shaking his stigma as the worlds greatest golfer never to win a major.
8/11/04 -- The only players invited to dinner are former champions, so it is exclusive company. The defending champion decides the menu, and the evening is filled with laughs, stories and memories.
By GEORGE WHITE
8/11/04 - Phil Mickelson has an awesome opportunity, and I think he should fully take advantage of it. Lets see, he won the Masters
8/11/04 - Phil Mickelson has an awesome opportunity, and I think he should fully take advantage of it. Lets see, he won the Masters
8/11/04 -- Fred Couples, Larry Nelson and Steve Elkington withdrew from the 86th PGA Championship Wednesday. All cited injuries for their withdrawal.