Walker takes the PGA and sits among the greats in Baltusrol

American Jimmy Walker gets the win the Championship Professional Golf Association (PGA), played in Baltursol, after holding the lead until the final day of the tournament. Walker finished with a birdie on the penultimate hole and 14 strokes under par, ahead of Australian Jason Day (-13), which was about to give chase with a prodigious eagle on the last hole.

The victory golfer Oklahoma in the last major of the year culminates an unusual season in which all the greats have fallen into the hands of first - timers, as England 's Danny Willett, who won the Masters, American Dustin Johnson, winner of the Open States States , and Swede Henrik Stenson, recent winner of the British Open.

Brooks Koepka (-9), which had threatened the leadership of his compatriot during the first days, failed to keep pace and stayed within a group of pursuers consisting fellow American Daniel Summerhays (-10), South Africa's Brendan Grace (-9) and Hideki Matsuyama (-9).

The PGA Championship was the last of the big four a calendar much more loaded than usual, due to the Olympic Games in Rio, which returns the golf after almost a century, and the biennial Ryder Cup between teams in Europe and the US, to be held in late September in Minnesota.