Aaron Rai
England’s 31-year-old Aaron Rai closed with a 5-under 65 at the PGA Championships to become the first player of Indian heritage to win a major. He finished on a nine-under 271 total, to finish three strokes ahead of Jon Rahm and overnight leader Alex Smalley.
With rounds of 70-69-67-65, he is not only the first PGA Championship winner in history to lower his score in each round but also the first English-born player in more than a century to capture the PGA Championship. The last Englishman to win the title was Jim Barnes in 1916 and 1919.
Rai, making his 13th major start, carded a 40-foot eagle putt on the par-5 ninth during a stretch when he one-putted seven straight greens to take the lead. He played his last 10 holes in 6-under and holed a birdie putt of some 70 feet across the 17th green to affirm his victory.
The astounding majors win marks his second PGA Tour title after the Wyndham Championship two years ago. He also has three career wins on the DP World Tour and three on the HotelPlanner Tour.
Rai is the first international player to win the PGA Championship since Jason Day in 2015.
Outright 54-hole leader Smalley carded a final-round 68, playing his final three holes eagle-bogey-birdie. It was his fourth career runner-up finish on Tour and second of the season after the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
Rahm claims his 15th top-10 finish and second runner-up in 38 major starts, He was undone by a pair of bogeys on the front nine, and managed only one birdie on the back nine for a 68.
The trio of Justin Thomas, Ludvig Aberg and Matti Schmid finished tied fourth on five-under.
Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Justin Rose, they all had their chances and until they were undone by untimely mistakes or failure to get good looks at birdie. McIlroy, who closed with a 69, played the par 5s in even for the week and he chopped up the reachable par-4 13th for a bogey and finish tied seventh.
2024 PGA Championship winner Xander Schauffele (T7/-4) recorded his eighth top-10 finish in the last 10 major championships.
Matt Fitzpatrick was tied 14th on two under with world number one Scottie Scheffler.
Three-time PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka (T55/+3) sat even-par through 14 before playing the final four holes at 4-over, finishing with a 74. He has not finished inside the top 10 in his last 12 major starts since winning the 2023 PGA Championship
Sherwood conquers the Colonial
Cole Sherwood birdied the 17th hole and tapped in a short putt for par on 18 to secure the victory at the Colonial Life Charity Classic.
He finished with a 16-under 264 total to finish one shot ahead of Zac Blair, who was in the group ahead and in the clubhouse at 15-under.
Sherwood had stretched his lead to four shots through 10 holes and looked like a golfer on cruise control. But his bogey on the 12th hole coupled with Cole Hammer’s out-of-nowhere 8-under-par 62 cut the margin to one, then Zac Blair ripped off four straight birdies to forge a deadlock at 14-under par.
Blair’s runner-up finish helped him improve 37 spots to No. 15 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List.
Kyle Westmoreland closed with a 4-under 66 to finish third at 14-under, his best result since winning the 2025 Astara Golf Championship.
Two players shot final-round 62s and matched the course record – Hammer (T4/-13) and Alistair Docherty (T16/-9).
Josh Teaterm who was part of the three-way tie for the lead through 54 holes, finished T4 at 13-under.
Third-round co-leader Carson Young, winner of the South Carolina Amateur when it was played at The Woodcreek Club in 2013, closed with an even-par 70 and finished T7 at 12-under.
Anderson wins in playoff
Cole Anderson defeated Patrick Flavin in a playoff hole to capture the Peru Open title. The two American players finished regulation in a tie for first at 21-under 267, with Anderson charging from behind with a bogey-free 7-under 65. At 23-under following an eagle on No. 14, Flavin closed the day with bogeys Nos. 15 and 18 that erased his two-shot lead.
A bogey on the first playoff hole was enough for Anderson to get the job done, as Flavin went on to card a double-bogey after hitting his tee shot out of bounds.
With the win in just his third career start on PGA TOUR Americas, Anderson joined Mason Greene in a tie for second on the 2026 Points List. The lead still belongs to Flavin, who missed the opportunity to claim back-to-back wins after taking the Abierto del Centro Zurich three weeks ago in Argentina.
“Six months ago, if you had told me I would be winning this event here, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. My game was not in the best of spots. I’m just excited, happy, and grateful for everyone’s help,” said the Florida State University alum who turned pro in 2024 and earned his PGA TOUR Americas card in a Q-School playoff two months ago in Ocala, Florida.
In a tie for seventh at 14-under, Anderson entered the day five shots behind Flavin, who held a two-shot lead through 54 holes. “I didn’t really know until late that I had a chance. I knew it was going to take a low one. I honestly thought it would need to be lower… I think that’s kind of the beauty of this game, right? You’re never as far away from playing well as you think, and when you’re playing well, you’re never as far away from playing poorly as you think. For me, it’s a lesson in patience and continuing to put one foot in front of the other,” added the 25-year-old winner.
Joseph Winslow carded a 3-under 69 to finish solo third at 20-under, only one shot out of the playoff for the title. Connor Howe posted a 6-under 66 to finish solo fourth at 19-under.
