Stuart Franklin(Photo by Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)Welcome to the Dew Sweeper's PGA Championship rundown, your one-stop shop to catch up on the weekend action from the golf world. From the professional tours, trending news, social media headlines and upcoming events, here's every golf-related thing you need to know for the morning of August 10.
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It's been a tough season for Rory McIlroy, yet — thanks to his Quail Hollow track record and recent strong performances — he enters the 2017 PGA Championship as the favorite. And though his approach game and fickle putting make that proposition more tenuous than believed, the fireworks show McIlroy held on Wednesday will only amplify that fervor.
During the Golf Channel's preview coverage, cameras caught McIlroy's work with his 3-wood, efforts illustrated by ProTracer for good measure. And by “efforts,” we mean 300-yard carries. With a 3-wood. The rockets launched by his driver were just as impre..

2017 Kelly JenningsKyle Miller picked up the phone in his office at GolfTEC Calgary Midnapore a few weeks ago and called Colin Lavender, tournament director of the Mackenzie Tour-PGA Tour Canada’s ATB Financial Classic. Miller had already written a letter to Lavender requesting a sponsor’s exemption into the tournament. Having been rejected 14 previous times for spots into other events—and told all his life as someone with cerebral palsy that he couldn’t achieve things—Miller figured a call would go a long way to pitch his story.
It did. Three weeks later, on the same day he had turned professional in 2013, Miller found out he had been given a spot in the field. On Thursday, at 2:30 p.m., the 26-year-old will tee it up at Country Hills Country Club in his hometown of Calgary, becoming the first golfer with cerebral palsy to tee it up in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event.
“In that conversation, I pled my case for an hour and a half,” Miller said in a phone interview on Wednesday. “And I think..

Photo by Gary Kellner/PGA of America via Getty ImagesCHARLOTTE — What kind of impression has Quail Hollow Club made as a first-time major-championship venue? How about the fact that before the 99th PGA Championship officially got underway on Thursday, PGA of America officials had all but guaranteed they’ll be bringing the event back to the Queen City course.
“We think the championship just sets up well here at Quail Hollow,” PGA CEO Pete Bevacqua said on Wednesday. “So we of course need to get through this week, but I would tell you … we can’t wait to get back here. I think it’s 100 percent in our plans to bring the PGA Championship back to Quail Hollow.”
Such praise for a rookie major venue isn’t entirely unheard of—Bethpage Black was lauded at the 2002 U.S. Open before the championship had wrapped up with Tiger Woods taking the title, and quickly awarded a second U.S. Open just seven years later. But with other first-time hosts in recent years (Chambers Bay and Erin Hills to name two..

Sam GreenwoodCHARLOTTE, NC – AUGUST 10: Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark plays his shot from the second tee during the first round of the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club on August 10, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)The final major of 2017 is officially underway, and the storylines are endless for the 99th PGA Championship. Despite what you've been reading or hearing, there are more things happening at Quail Hollow than just Jordan Spieth's pursuit of the career Grand Slam — although that is certainly the biggest story of the week. Spieth would become the youngest to ever accomplish the feat by six months, topping Tiger Woods.
We'll try to contextualize what the feat means as the week goes on, and if it starts to look like it's a real possibility. Spieth is the biggest storyline, but there are many other stories to cover. Among them, the PGA Championship moving to May starting in 2019 at Bethpage Black. That will set of..

Mike EhrmannCHARLOTTE, NC – AUGUST 10: Jordan Spieth of the United States lines up a putt on the 10th hole during the first round of the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club on August 10, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)The final major of 2017 is officially underway, and the storylines are endless for the 99th PGA Championship. Despite what you've been reading or hearing, there are more things happening at Quail Hollow than just Jordan Spieth's pursuit of the career Grand Slam — although that is certainly the biggest story of the week. Spieth would become the youngest to ever accomplish the feat by six months, topping Tiger Woods.
We'll try to contextualize what the feat means as the week goes on, and if it starts to look like it's a real possibility. Spieth is the biggest storyline, but there are many other stories to cover. Among them, the PGA Championship moving to May starting in 2019 at Bethpage Black. That will set..