The bells are ringing for America’s new golf star Keegan Bradley – but they could also be sounding more bad news to come for struggling superstar Tiger Woods.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON will swap the Bahamas for Greensboro, North Carolina this week as he bids to make up for a Majors campaign he marked for himself as a ‘D’.

PHIL MICKLESON has been talked about in many terms –exciting and dynamic, pretentious and confounding being some of the extreme descriptions.

HE may have finished with a birdie at the notoriously difficult 18th but Rory McIlroy was glad to put the PGA Championship to bed after a difficult and painful week at Atlanta Athletic Club.

AS curiosities go, there are many when we concern ourselves with the level of golf that is on display here at the Atlanta Athletic Club.

SCOTT VERPLANK was vying with Steve Stricker at the top of the leaderboard last night but Tiger Woods was in freefall as he stared at the prospect of his first PGA Championship missed cut in 14 starts.

GRAEME MCDOWELL will go back to the drawing board in the wake of his PGA Championship missed cut as he bids to salvage something from a season of frustration.

REGRETS? Rory McIlroy has a couple but before he takes some enforced rest from the game to heal his injured wrist, he still has designs on a second Major title this weekend at the PGA Championship.

DARREN CLARKE flew out of Atlanta last night as delighted to be heading for a well-earned break as he was disappointed with the form that prompted his missed cut at the PGA Championship.

RORY McILROY’S hopes of a second Major championship victory in three starts hung in the balance last night after the US Open winner injured his wrist during his opening round at the 93rd PGA Championship.

TIGER WOODS began his first round in a Major since the Masters yesterday as if the script had been prepared for him by an Oscar-winning screenwriter.

Tiger Woods went in two lakes and 11 bunkers as he totally wasted what had earlier been a flying start to the USPGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club.

MUCH has changed for Tiger Woods since he last sat in a major championship interview room but it was his old caddie Steve Williams which occupied media minds at his pre-PGA Championship press conference yesterday.

FEARFUL of melting into the zoysia grass, what with temperatures in the mid-90s and a humidity beyond insufferable, walks are kept to a minimum in advance of the 93rd PGA Championship at the Atlanta Athletic Club.

Tiger Woods is loving the fact he is back playing golf and this week back playing a major.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON will wait until after this week’s PGA Championship before taking his new relationship with golf coach Pete Cowen to a more permanent level.

NOTHING will boost Darren Clarke’s confidence more tomorrow morning at the 93rd PGA Championship than teeing it up at Atlanta Athletic Club as a Major champion.

ADAM SCOTT has claimed the furore surrounding his caddie Steve Williams in the wake of his WGC-Bridgestone Invitational victory has been blown out of all proportion.

THE final Major of the year begins at the Atlanta Athletic Club on Thursday with Luke Donald and Lee Westwood still clinging to the top two places in the world rankings and Rory McIlroy the bookmaker’s favourite at 10/1.

GOLFERS arriving at Atlanta Athletic Club yesterday for this week’s PGA Championship were greeted with heat in the American south reaching three-digits on the heat index.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON will tee it up with Tiger Woods and Davis Love III in the first two rounds of next week’s US PGA at Atlanta Athletic Club.

ALL has changed in the world of Tiger Woods since he limped off the golf course after just nine holes of the Player Championship at Sawgrass 12 weeks ago. All and nothing.

IRELAND’S four golfing musketeers arrive in Akron, Ohio today ahead of Thursday’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club and for three of them at least, the week represents some new frontiers.

IT may not have been the finish either Major winner envisaged but Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell will both head to the United States next week in positive mood following their Irish Open performances.

WHEN Phil Mickelson finally ended 11 years of “major” misery by winning the Masters at Augusta National in April 2004, it looked as if he had the golfing world at his feet.

RICH BEEM started the trend a year ago in the USPGA Championship at Hazeltine.

DESPITE Padraig Harrington’s amazing achievements in a relatively short professional career, it seems that only victory in a major championship will satisfy everybody interested in his progress.

Nick Faldo shot a hole-in-one, the 10th of his career, at the start of the US PGA championship third round today.

Andrew Coltart swiftly moved back into a share of second place when the United States PGA championship resumed at the Atlanta Athletic Club today.

USPGA Leaderboard

Ernie Els is currently leading the field in the 83rd PGA championship at the Atlanta Athletic Club, Gerogia, USA.

The last golf Major of the year tees off today at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Georgia.

Tiger Woods was part of a star-studded group who put no fewer than eight balls in a lake on one hole in practice for the USPGA Championship.

Jesper Parnevik believes he will have to win the USPGA Championship to have any chance of qualifying automatically for the Ryder Cup.