https://pinhighpress.com/tags/alex-smalley/ Recent content in Alex Smalley on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/aaron-rai-wins-pga-championship-aronimink-2026/ Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/aaron-rai-wins-pga-championship-aronimink-2026/ <p>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 five-under 65, finished at nine under for the week, and beat the field by three. The win was his second on the PGA Tour after the 2024 Wyndham Championship, and the first for an English player at the PGA Championship since Jim Barnes in 1919. It was also the first major for any player of Indian heritage. The numbers around the result are easy to write down. The result itself was not the one the broadcast had been quietly building toward all week.</p> https://pinhighpress.com/posts/smalley-leads-pga-championship-sunday-2026/ Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/smalley-leads-pga-championship-sunday-2026/ <p>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 a shared one. Alex Smalley, the twenty-nine-year-old American who came into the week without a PGA Tour win and with a best major finish of T23, signed for a one-under 68 in the late wave and walked off the eighteenth green at six under for the championship. Matti Schmid, the German who has been on Smalley&rsquo;s shoulder since the first round, sat two shots back at four under. Jon Rahm, Ludvig Aberg, Nick Taylor and Aaron Rai shared the third-place line on the same number, two shots back of the lead, and the rest of the leaderboard, in a way the course has more or less insisted upon all week, was as crowded as it has been at any major in recent memory. Twenty-two players sat within four shots of the lead heading into Sunday. Twenty-six were within two shots of the cut line at one over. The shape was the shape Aronimink has been producing on every page of its scorecard for four days.</p>