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Jason Day has won a drought-breaking major championship at the USPGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
Day had finished inside the top 10 nine times in previous majors without getting a win, but wasn’t to be denied in Wisconsin this morning for his first victory in a major.
Day finished at an astonishing 20 under par, to beat out two-time major winner in 2015 Jordan Spieth, fellow top ten player Justin Rose and South African Branden Grace.
He finished three shots ahead of Spieth, who capped off an astonishing year in the majors with a runner-up finish.
World No.5 Day birdied the second hole with a lovely up and down from a bunker and then started a huge push towards becoming the first Australian to win the PGA Championship since 1995 with three birdies in a row on five, six and seven.
A chunked approach into the ninth followed a bogey at eight, and it looked as if the wheels may have been falling off for the Aussie.
Day made another charge as the players turned into the breeze to secure several more birdies on the way in.
The putter was hot for Day, and he seemed to catch every break on the course. He was often on the inside of playing partner Spieth, getting good looks at lines and speed of putts.
He barely faltered with his driving, bombing several around 350 metres.
In the bunker-ridden course, however, he also had his fair share of work to do out of the sand, which he managed to negotiate without too many problems.
A blip at 15 may have had Day worried, as the lead shrunk to three shots with three to play, but he recovered on the 16th to make a strong birdie, and it was hardly in doubt from that point.
He becomes the fifth Australian to win the PGA Championship, joining Jim Ferrier, David Graham, Wayne Grady and Steve Elkington.
It is the first time an Australian has won a major since Adam Scott at the 2013 US Masters.
Matt Jones, fellow Aussie and leader after 36 holes, dropped away to be over par for the second round in a row.
Cameron Smith shot a one-under-71 to finish at five under for the week.
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