The PGA Championship, the last of the year's four golf majors, may be played outside the United States within the next decade, according to Golf World magazine.
PGA Championship organisers have told Golf World that preliminary in-house discussions have been held about the idea, which has already been greeted enthusiastically overseas.
Australia has thrown its hat into the ring as a possible venue, with PGA of Australia executive director Brian Thorburn selling his country's assets - great golf courses and a proven track record of organising major sporting events.
Speaing to reporters at the European Tour's Perth International, Thorburn says they've hosted big American events before, such as 2011's Presidents Cup and the World Cup of golf this year, so who's to say they can't host a major.
Existing contracts for the PGA Championship with television and venues are in place until 2019, leaving 2020 as the earliest possible year when the event could be held overseas.
The Olympic Games will take place in Tokyo in 2020, with golf among the sports to be contested.
Along with the Masters, the US Open and the British Open, the PGA Championship completes golf's elite quartet of events but, with the game becoming increasingly global, it seems an anachronism that three of the four majors are played in the same country.
