The PGA Championship has turned into a true derby as the leaders hit the final stretch with Rickie Fowler and Phil Mickelson sharing the lead and Henrik Stenson and Rory McIlroy just one back at Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky.
In a wild Sunday where five players have held a share of the lead, Fowler and Mickelson sit 15-under-par through 13 holes while Stenson (14 holes) and McIlroy (12 holes) sit one back at 14 under.
With the next best challenger at 11 under it appears a tight between the quartet will decide the season’s final major winner.
Fowler and Stenson are pushing for a maiden major while McIlroy is looking for number four and Mickelson his sixth.
Jason Day was just one shot off the lead early in the final round but has been left to rue multiple short misses with his putter.
Day is 10 under through 13 holes to be tied 11th and five back.
It was a front nine of crucial misses on the greens for Day as he missed three birdie putts inside 11 feet and also a four-foot par putt.
Combined with a butchered bogey on the par-five seventh the 26-year-old lost his grip on the Wanamaker trophy.
If not for making birdies on the fifth and eighth holes the Queenslander would be further out of contention.
Day has struggled with his putter all week and could have easily been comfortably in the driver’s seat had he been able to bury countless short chances.
He missed from 11 feet for birdie on the first and third holes and couldn’t knock in one from nine feet on the fourth hole before missing the short-par chance on the sixth.
Adam Scott’s dreams of making a big push died on the opening hole when he missed the fairway right and the green long, failing to get up and down and making bogey.
While he grabbed birdies on seven and eight he is still seven back at eight under through 16 holes.
Fellow Australians Matt Jones and Geoff Ogilvy finished up their tournament with a round of 71 to be one under for the week, while Marc Leishman (69) posted his first under-par round of the week to join his countrymen in a tie for 47th.
