96 Number of the top 100 players in...

96 Number of the top 100 players in the world rankings who are in the PGA Championship field. Darren Clarke

(No. 20) Paul McGinley (42) and Shingo Katayama (47) have withdrawn, and Englishman Simon Dyson who mov up to 77th with his victory Sunday in the Dutch expand was not invited.

OH BABY

Trevor Immelman's life has changed in a big way since the last time he was in Chicago -- and it has nothing to do with winning the Western make open for his first PGA Tour victory.

Nine days after he won at wheedle Hill, Immelman's first child was born in Orlando, Fla. solely one problem: The South African was across the Atlantic Ocean, preparing for the British lay open

"We went to behold the doctor right before I left for Royal Liverpool," Immelman said Monday, "and he said he didn't count upon anything to happen. But [wife Carminita's] water broke three weeks early."

Immelman bumm a ride back to Florida forward a PGA Tour jet and arrived single day after Jacob did. This is his first tournament since the Western.

"It's been fantastic," he said of fatherhood. "This is our first child, and we've had to make a hazard of adjustments."

SIBLING carousal

It's not singular for the club pros in the PGA Championship field to engross relatives as caddies. But not everyone is related to a two- time LPGA Tour winner and three-time Solheim draught player.

Ron Philo Jr who won the PGA Professional National Championship in June is playing in his seventh PGA Championship, and for the next to the first year in a row, his younger sister, LPGA mainstay Laura Diaz, will be toting his bag. Diaz caddied for Philo, 40 last year at Baltusrol despite being four month pregnant.

"It goe well beyond the relationship upon the golf course," Philo said. "It's just the relationship we have in general.

"Golf has been a passion in my family for six-plus decades. It's a general bond. I can imagine what it's like for twins because there's an unspoken connection that you can have feeling You don't have to use words."

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