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Cameron Smith has endured another hometown horror show, the three-time Australian PGA champion fading badly to card a four-over 75 and miss a seventh straight cut.

Fuzzy Zoeller, a two-time major champion and one of golf's most gregarious characters whose career was tainted by a racially insensitive joke about Tiger Woods, has died, according to a longtime colleague. He was 74.

Rory McIlroy doubts the fracture in golf will be repaired, as the "irrational" spending of the LIV series has created such a gulf in the sport.

Only Brisbane's wild weather could stop Sebastian Garcia from storming further clear at the Australian PGA Championship after the local stars all fired opening-round shots.

Matt Kuchar's conditional status as No. 118 in the FedEx Cup will get him into roughly the same number of events as taking a career money exemption. He will have to sort it out in the next month before the Sony Open in Hawaii.