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.
With a second victory in her 19th career start, Woad is the fastest player to reach two LPGA titles since Sung Hyun Park won twice in her first 16 appearances, in 2017.
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.
Asked if there was an ideal strategy for staying focused during a long clubhouse wait, Thomas recalled a hilarious story about what not to do, which he learned the hard way at the 2016 Travelers Championship.
During Friday’s round at the PGA Championship, cameras caught Justin Thomas and Keegan Bradley in an animated discussion with a rules official, with the broadcast informing viewers that the two (along with Cameron Young) were put on the clock.
Aronimink’s history poses a philosophical question for architects and old clubs: should designers honour and resurrect the course that the original architects drew, or are they better off restoring the features that were actually built?
Kristoffer Reitan delivered a composed final round at Quail Hollow to win the Truist Championship, outlasting Rickie Fowler, Nicolai Hojgaard and others for his first PGA Tour title.
Lucas Herbert secured a US Open berth from a wire-to-wire victory at LIV Golf Virginia that also ensured the Victorian owns career victories on every major tour in golf.
Jeeno Thitikul bounced back from a missed cut at the Chevron Championship to successfully defend her Mizuho Americas Open title in New Jersey, securing her ninth LPGA Tour victory.
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