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Aaron Rai wasn’t one of many favourites for this 12 months’s US PGA match – the second of the game’s 4 males’s majors. However on the ultimate day of the championship, the Englishman slowly emerged from an enormous pack of contenders to prime the leaderboard. Displaying no nerves, he held off the likes of Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas to take his first main title, ending three pictures away from the sphere.
So the place did he come from, and the place would possibly he go subsequent? Greater than the Rating’s Ade Adedoyin hears from Rai’s childhood coach, Darren Prosser, about how a System One-loving youngster from Wolverhampton discovered a ardour for golf, and the sacrifices Aaron’s dad and mom made to help his progress within the recreation. Darren additionally discusses how a lot Rai’s roots within the Midlands, India and Kenya imply to him.
Ade’s additionally joined by Iain Carter, the BBC’s golf correspondent, who says that Rai’s victory on the US PGA wasn’t essentially a shock, after a number of years of regular progress up the ranks. He additionally explains how a gentle temperament, and a few idiosyncratic habits, have been key to his rise.
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