Keegan’s Irish connections

NEW PGA champion Keegan Bradley followed Rory McIlroy and Darren Clarke into the record books with his play-off victory at Atlanta Golf Club and made it three Irish major winners in a row. Well, kind of.

Bradley, 25, defeated fellow American Jason Dufner over three holes on Sunday night to become seventh first-time major winner in a row, having come from five shots down on his rival with three holes to play in regulation to force the play-off in Georgia.

The New Englander has plenty of golfing heritage to go with the Irish lineage provided by his Cork-born grandparents as his father is a PGA professional and his aunt is the former LPGA star, six-time major winner and former Solheim Cup captain Pat Bradley.