Aaron Rai might not be one of golf’s biggest names, but it became clear in the aftermath of his surprising PGA Championship victory that he’s one of the most popular players on the PGA Tour. Guys from Rory McIlroy to Xander Schauffele praised their peer for both being a gentleman and for his work ethic. Read more…
With club professionals in the field, it would be easy to think of the PGA Championship as the everyman’s major. So it was fitting that Aaron Rai, about as everyman as you can get on the PGA Tour, lifted the Wanamaker Trophy at Aronimink G.C., outlasting one of the most crowded major championship leaderboards in Read more…
It would ultimately prove irrelevant, but, at the time, Rory McIlroy had a rather consequential shot at the par-5 16th on Sunday at Aronimink. It came after the two-time Masters champ had made a long birdie putt at the 14th to keep his hopes alive, then a par the difficult 15th. Then came the 16th, Read more…
One by one they fell. And there were many of them. A tightened leaderboard heading into the final round Sunday at Aronimink Golf Club surely meant there would be chaos late, with the survivors all doing what they could to win the PGA Championship and get their respective hands on the Wanamaker Trophy. It didn’t Read more…
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Kurt Kitayama turned in a record round on Sunday. Now has must wait and see if it’s enough. Kitayama, beginning his day outside the top 60 and teeing off six hours ahead of the final paring, made seven birdies—including at the 18th—and went bogey free for a final-round 63. If that Read more…
If you’re frontrunner sports fan—the kind that wear Dodgers hats on Tuesdays and Yankees caps on Wednesdays—the PGA Championship isn’t for you. Golf’s odd-duck major has long been a celebration of no names, underdogs and club pros, and that has continued in extreme fashion in 2026 with a historically tight leaderboard topped by an array Read more…
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — After Friday’s pin placements stirred some strong emotions about set-up, Saturday’s course presentation at the PGA Championship seemed to meet the platonic ideal of facilitating fireworks but causing punishment for anything less than right. That doesn’t mean it was universally loved by the field, however. Most notably, Shane Lowry. The former Read more…
The saying goes experience is the best teacher. If that’s the case, then an awful lot of tour pros are going to learn some lessons on Sunday at the 2026 PGA Championship. Entering the final round at Aronimink Golf Club, Alex Smalley has a two-stroke edge on the field. However, there are 21 players within Read more…
Back in February, Skratch’s Dan Rapaport had on England’s Dan Brown for an interview on his “Dan on Golf” YouTube show. The title of the video, which you can watch here, was “The next John Daly?” Safe to say, on Saturday at the PGA Championship, Brown made good on that prediction. Brown, who began the Read more…
Norwegian Kristoffer Reitan pulled of an extraordinary win last week in the Truist Championship by capturing the $20 million signature event in only his 15th PGA Tour start. With that kind breakthrough, you’d have thought Reitan wouldn’t have changed anything—from his breakfast choice to his underwear rotation—for the PGA Championship. So how about switching out Read more…
The best word to describe Jordan Spieth in the year 2026 is mercurial. For several holes, or maybe even a round or two at a time, he’ll look like the player who captured three major titles between 2015 and 2017. But look away for a moment and suddenly he’s trying a flop shot over 10 Read more…
With the wind howling and the rough thicker than a pot of cheese whiz down at Geno’s, it’s been a dangerous week to be a spectator at the 2026 PGA Championshp. On Thursday, we saw Jon Rahm strike a volunteer in the face with a divot. On Friday, we watched as Bryson DeChambeau launched “fore Read more…
A crowded leaderboard at the 2026 PGA Championship—58 players are within six shots of the lead after 36 holes, the most in the history of the event—will make Saturday’s third round at Aronimink Golf Club all the more intriguing. Is it anybody’s major to win? Well, actually, yes. Of the last 36 winners of the Read more…
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — The one and really only thing you need to know about hole locations is that there’s no such thing as an illegal one. There are no rules, only norms. The most interesting setups are when the golf course begins flirting with those norms. That’s what we have at Aronimink Golf Club Read more…
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