Martin Kaymer got ever so slightly aggrieved yesterday as he held court in the PGA Championship interview room at Whistling Straits.

How can you reasonably define a great golf course? 

Pádraig Harrington returns to the majors this week at Whistling Straits for the first time since last month’s Open near miss, fighting both the pain of a knee injury and the sense the clock is ticking on his ability to add to his title haul.

Ohio is the birthplace of golf’s most famous son Jack Nicklaus, so it was a fitting stage for Shane Lowry to “come of age” in winning one of the game’s most prestigious titles, the Bridgestone World Golf Championship on Sunday night. 

World No 1 Rory McIlroy continued a frustrating Players Championship trend in finishing just a few shots shy of victory for a third year running on the TPC Sawgrass course.

Rory McIlroy was rushing to nearby Jacksonville Airport and a London connecting flight delighted despite yet another ‘back door’ top-10 and on this occasion in the Players Championship.

Rory McIlroy managed to squeeze in nine holes of practice ahead of the start of today’s PGA Tour flagship Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.

Rory McIlroy had never made the cut or finished under par in any of his three previous appearances in the Players Championship over the TPC course at Sawgrass, but he never put a foot wrong in yesterday’s opening round of the 2013 tournament.

Darren Clarke fought his own version of War On The Shore during the opening round of the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island.

Tiger Woods heads to this week’s PGA Championship with a one win in 24 record on Pete Dye designed golf courses.

Rory McIlroy again crashed out of the Players Championship, golf’s richest event, at Sawgrass last night.

The biggest first prize in golf might not be enough to attract Rory McIlroy next year.

FORMER European vice-captain, Des Smyth is supportive of Pádraig Harrington’s decision not to return to Europe and endeavour to qualify automatically for the Ryder Cup.

THERE was no shortage of sympathy for American Dustin Johnson after he was penalised for grounding his club in a bunker to lose a spot in a play-off at the USPGA Championship.

ANOTHER major ended in anticlimax for Tiger Woods last night as a wide-open USPGA Championship built towards an exciting conclusion at Whistling Straits without the world number one.

THIS was one homecoming that Darren Clarke will not have relished.

PADRAIG Harrington will seek reassurance from the manner of his 2008 US PGA Championship victory that his first victory since then is not already out of reach following a disappointing opening round at Whistling Straits.

AS the spiritual home of the US Open, the storied Pebble Beach Golf Links seemed perhaps an incongruous place to announce the destination of a new venue on the circuit for the 2017 tournament.

A COMPANY town with a company golf course, almost everything you see in this corner of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin appears to have the name ‘Kohler’ stamped on it, from the bathtubs to the owner of this week’s US PGA Championship venue.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON believes he can make 2010 a landmark year by becoming the first man to win all four majors in the same calendar year.

It hardly takes a lot of effort to convince someone to go on a holiday in the south of France.

DARREN CLARKE is determined to cement his place in the Ryder Cup starting with this week’s Players Championship.

VIJAY SINGH waited until the first hole of a three-man play-off to card his first bogey of the day at Whistling Straits yesterday.

WHEN asked by a journalist why the set-up at his superb complex at Whistling Straits has such an Irish flavour, Herb Kohler’s face lights up: “Ireland”, he exclaims with undisguised relish, “I love the place.”

IT’S not a links; it’s not a parkland course. It’s a hybrid - and it’s unique.

WHISTLING STRAITS, the venue for this week’s US PGA Championship, takes some finding.

BILLY FOSTER is back on the bag, he’s been on holiday for a fortnight and Darren Clarke is all set to cope with the demands of two of the biggest weeks of his season, the last major of the year at Whistling Straits and the defence of his WGC-NEC title in Akron, Ohio, next week.

Charlie Mulqueen discovers Whistling Straits is not unlike many of Ireland's finest courses.

PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman had to overcome years of pessimism and resistance before people began to appreciate the magic of Sawgrass. John Garrity explains.