After his breakthrough major win at Aronimink, Aaron Rai received something special in the mail, a handwritten congratulations letter from Jack Nicklaus.
Aaron Rai admits it took several days for his PGA Championship victory to truly sink in. From lifting the famously heavy Wanamaker Trophy to receiving recognition from the Royal Family, the Englishman is still adjusting to life as a major champion.
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In the wake of the Englishman’s three-shot victory at the PGA Championship, old BBC news clips of Rai from his early days have surfaced showcasing his early interest in the game and the talent that would help fuel him to become a major champion.
Out of Rai’s unlikely win came the usual avalanche of anecdotes and highlights, but perhaps none more awwww-inspiring than this fan video which, through sheer luck, captured Rai’s wife’s reaction to her husband’s 68-foot bomb on the 17th hole.
At tournaments of this magnitude, the temptation is to project, to extrapolate, to chart the arc of what comes next. At 31, Rai has time on his side, a long runway ahead. But what makes his story worth sitting with isn’t that he’s here, but the route he took.
Aaron Rai led the PGA Tour in Driving Accuracy last season. We asked him what some golf-swing priorities for him are – and what the rest of us can learn from him.
The son of an Indian father and a Kenyan mother, the 29-year-old Englishman is unfailingly polite and the product of a culture that prides itself on that admirable characteristic.
During an interview with Jason Sobel and Michael Collins on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio, Rai told the story and philosophy behind his iron covers, and it dates back to his childhood.
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