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Rory McIlroy arrived at Valhalla Golf Club as a three-time major champion and the No. 1 golfer in the world. He’s leaving as a legend. On Sunday at the PGA Championship, 25-year-old McIlroy won the fourth major title of his young career. It was his second Wanamaker Trophy, his second major win of the year and his third PGA Tour win in a row. “I didn’t think in my wildest dreams I’d...
Published: August 11, 2014
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The slogan couldn’t live up to the event. “This is major,” they advertised. The 2014 PGA Championship, with a leaderboard of unprecedented quality, a race against darkness to reach conclusion and a champion already threatening to become the best ever, was so much more. It was a tournament that showed at age 44 Phil Mickelson still has game and guts; a tournament...
Published: August 11, 2014
With the frenzy of the PGA Championship and Rory McIlroy’s fourth career major still very much enveloping us, let’s take a look at how the PGA Tour’s best stack up following McIlroy’s second time hoisting the Wanamaker. The madness of the leaderboard Saturday and Sunday at the PGA Championship is reflected in this edition of our power rankings. Some of the tour’s brightest...
Published: August 11, 2014
It’s official. The “Rory Slam” is now a thing. Northern Ireland superstar Rory McIlroy took his status from simply the best player in the world to a one-name phenomenon on Sunday night in Louisville, Kentucky, winning his second consecutive major with a one-shot defeat of Phil Mickelson in the PGA Championship at Valhalla. “I never dreamed I’d have a summer like this,”...
Published: August 11, 2014
No amount of rain falling on Valhalla Golf Club could put out the fires set in the final round of the 96th PGA Championship. In fact, the only thing that threatened to put an end to this tournament was the lights turning off. Rory McIlroy provided all the electricity Valhalla ever needed. The weekend at Valhalla was one of the most electric two days of golf anybody has ever seen. The golfers with...
Published: August 11, 2014
Rory McIlroy is clearly the best golfer in the world. He answered yet another set of questions from doubters Sunday. After coming into the final round of the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Course in Louisville, Kentucky with a one-stroke lead, McIlroy hit snags on the third and sixth holes. The two bogeys caused him to fall behind the likes of Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson and Henrik Stenson. Yet...
Published: August 11, 2014
Soft conditions Sunday at the 2014 PGA Championship led to a shootout among several of the world’s best golfers. With plush greens providing greater access to pin positions, players were throwing darts at Valhalla Golf Course—and coming away with some very low numbers. These factors brought about a dramatic conclusion to the year’s final major, and it was only fitting that world No....
Published: August 11, 2014
It was a Rory McIlroy major victory unlike any other, but the degree of difficulty only made the win that much sweeter. McIlroy battled to win the 2014 PGA Championship Sunday afternoon at Valhalla Golf Club, holding off furious rallies from Phil Mickelson, Rickie Fowler and Henrik Stenson in a rain-delayed final round for the ages that ended in darkness. He cruised to his first two major...
Published: August 10, 2014
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga‘s win over Roger Federer at the 2014 Rogers Cup blew the doors off the already wide-open U.S. Open. Tsonga defeated Federer 7-5, 7-6 (3) in Toronto to take his second Masters 1000 title. It was Tsonga’s first ATP Tour title win in 18 months. He also beat overall No. 1 Novak Djokovic, No. 9 Andy Murray, No. 8 Grigor Dimitrov and Federer, ranked No. 3, en route to...
Published: August 10, 2014
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga stamped an exclamation mark on his improbable run at the 2014 Rogers Cup in Toronto by taking down Roger Federer in straight sets Sunday, 7-5, 7-6 (3). It was merely the latest in a string of masterful performances for Tsonga, who claimed his second Masters 1000 title as a result. The ATP World Tour captured the moment on Twitter after the tiebreak in the second set: Tsonga simply...