Jason Dufner took a two-shot lead into the third round of the US PGA Championship, but all the talk at Oak Hill was about the only bad shot he hit yesterday.

OAK HILL, the home of the Country Club of Rochester, was good to European golf in 1995 when the visitors somehow pulled off a quite remarkable victory in the Ryder Cup.

The last major of the year. The last chance – not only for Tiger Woods to avoid his first blank season since 1998, but also for Europe’s golfers to prevent a fourth successive season without winning any of the sport’s four biggest crowns.