Eighteen years and 71 majors later, more tears for Sergio Garcia.

Rory McIlroy repeated his stunning US Open success to capture the PGA Championship with a similar commanding eight-stroke winning margin of victory along the sun-splashed Kiawah Island shoreline.

AS phenomena go, the weather curiosity known as the Marine Layer — a thick blanket of fog that hovers over the Bay Area of San Francisco – is mostly a nuisance.

Jon Peterson