sindelar achieves rare feat

By Mark Garrod, PA Sport Golf Correspondent, Chicago

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American Joey Sindelar recorded only the third albatross in the history of the United States PGA championship at Medinah in Chicago today.

Among those to survive the halfway cut with nothing to spare on level par, 48-year-old Sindelar resumed with two opening bogeys, but then holed a 241-yard three-wood at the par-five fifth.

It was the first albatross in any major since England's Gary Evans in the 2004 Open at Royal Troon and the two previous ones in the PGA were by American Darrell Kestner in 1993 at Inverness and Swede Per-Ulrik Johansson 11 years ago at Riviera.