Courses
Valhalla: The Nicklaus Course Built for a Grand Finish
There are golf courses built to test a player quietly over eighteen holes, and there are golf courses that seem to have a taste for theatre. Valhalla Golf Club, …
PGA Championship
Courses
Congressional Country Club: The Blue Course America's Majors Keep Coming Back To
Congressional Country Club was founded in 1924 as a club for Washington’s political and business class first and a golf club second, and for its first …
PGA Tour
Aaron Rai Wins the 108th PGA Championship at Aronimink, and the Englishman Joins a List of Two
Aaron Rai walked off the eighteenth green at Aronimink on Sunday evening with the Wanamaker Trophy and a major championship to his name. He shot a closing …
PGA Tour
Kurt Kitayama's 63 at Aronimink: The Lowest Sunday in Major Championship History, Shared
The leaderboard the broadcast had been promising at Aronimink on Sunday morning, the one in which the major-without-a-favourite would close on a stack of red …
PGA Tour
Alex Smalley Carries a Two-Shot Lead Into Sunday at Aronimink, and the Story Is the Course
The third round of the 108th PGA Championship finished on Saturday evening at Aronimink with a leaderboard whose top line was, for the first time all week, not …
PGA Tour
Aldrich Potgieter Posts a 67 at Aronimink and Becomes the Quiet Story of Round One
The first round of the 108th PGA Championship at Aronimink finished on Thursday evening with a clubhouse leaderboard whose composition the betting market had …
Courses
Whistling Straits: The Pete Dye Course That Pretends to Be a Links and Almost Gets Away With It
There is a small category of golf courses in the world that have been built, in defiance of the land available to the architect, to look as if they were always …
PGA Tour
Schauffele's Confidence Is "Significantly Lower," and the Way He Said So Is the Quietest Story of PGA Championship Week
The press conference Xander Schauffele gave at Aronimink earlier this week was, by the standards of a press week at a major championship, an unusually candid …
PGA Tour
McIlroy's Right Pinky Toe Becomes the Most Discussed Body Part of PGA Championship Week
The medical bulletin a major champion does not want to be issuing on the Tuesday of a major week is the one where the player in question has, on his own …
PGA Tour
Cameron Young Arrives at Aronimink as the Major-Less Player Nobody Can Ignore
The way the PGA Championship field at Aronimink sorts out, in the hours before the practice rounds give way to a Thursday tee sheet, has the look of a …