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.
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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.
For months, questions had swirled around whether Smith would ever return to being a genuine factor in the majors again. At Aronimink, he provided an encouraging answer.
Players from Rory McIlroy to Xander Schauffele praised their peer for both being a gentleman and for his work ethic. And it was Schauffele who offered an amazing story that exemplified the latter and helped explain why Rai was left hoisting the Wanamaker Trophy at Aronimink.
Although most tour pros opt for the latest and greatest in equipment, Rai relies on venerable and familiar, with just one of his 14 clubs introduced in the past 12 months with some several years old.
What changed? Was it inevitable that his irons would click into gear, and that the narrative of him making some drastic, disastrous change to tank the sunset of Rose’s career was overblown?
A maturing Min Woo Lee remains in the hunt for a major championship breakthrough after a gritty fightback in Round 2 of the US PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club in Pennsylvania.
When Bryson DeChambeau missed the cut at last month’s Masters – rather violently, we might add – it felt like a blip. This was a guy who had finished inside the top 10 in six of his last eight majors, including a win and two runners-up. But after two brutal days at the 2026 PGA Read more…
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