US PGA TOUR Championship Golf 2017 Live TV

The US PGA Championship’s move from August to May is expected to be confirmed this evening. The major, which began as a match-play event in 1916 and became a stroke-play tournament in 1958, has been contested in July or August every year except from 1971, when it was staged in February. However, officials from the PGA of America and PGA Tour have been considering moving the Players Championship from May to its old March date, with the US PGA switching from August to May from as early as 2019.

With this each way column being based around the European Tour it’s not often I get an opportunity to pick the player I serially tip elsewhere – Patrick Rodgers, and it’s not an opportunity I’m going to pass up this week. Rodgers blew a great opportunity to win his first PGA Tour title last month at the John Deere Classic. That particularly painful defeat meant a missed cut next time out (at the Canadian Open) wasn’t the biggest surprise. The former amateur star has played in just one major prior to this week, when he finished 46th at the 2016 US Open,

 Scott ‘s two-under-par 68 in the final round salvaged a respectable tie for 13th alongside world No.2 Jordan Spieth, but the world No.17 finished a distant 12 shots back of winner Hideki Matsuyama. World No.3 Matsuyama fired a course record-equalling 61 and his 16-under total earned a five-shot win over two-time major winner Zach Johnson (68).Watch Now