PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
Johnson is the man to beat in big hitters’ battle
St Louis — Dustin Johnson is the favourite to win the PGA Championship in Bellerive this week, where the long hitters will be at home in the final Major of 2018. A course stretching to 7,547 yards, wide fairways and soft greens will give the big bombers the advantage they did not always enjoy at July’s Open Championship on the parched fairways at Carnoustie. Johnson, fellow Americans Justin Thomas and Brooks Koepka, Englishmen Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood, and Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy loom as the main contenders. Less likely to triumph, but sure to attract much attention all the same, are Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth, who can achieve the "Career Grand Slam". Woods did not play well in Akron last week and Bellerive is not really up his alley. A decade removed from his 14th, and most recent, Major victory, he is better suited nowadays to courses that demand subtlety and shot-making.
Spieth played poorly in Akron as well, and he too does not appear to be a good match fo...
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