Six years after sitting disconsolately in his hotel room in Akron wondering if he had the game to play on tour, Shane Lowry stands on top of the world safe in the knowledge that he’s now a man to be feared.

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 mother backing out of a driveway to buy sweets on Christmas Eve accidentally ran over her six-year-old daughter, killing the child.

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