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Adam Scott Set for His Hundredth Consecutive Major, the Longest Streak Since Nicklaus

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Adam Scott will arrive at Shinnecock Hills next month for the 126th US Open and tee it up in his hundredth consecutive major championship. The number became official this week when the latest world ranking confirmed him inside the top sixty, the threshold the US Open uses to settle the exempt portion of its field. Scott sits at forty-nine. The T4 at the Cadillac Championship at Doral in March had effectively done the work. The confirmation, on the Monday after a major he did not play his way into the conversation at, was the bureaucratic full stop on a streak that began in the summer of 2001 and has now run uninterrupted for a quarter of a century.

Aaron Rai Wins the 108th PGA Championship at Aronimink, and the Englishman Joins a List of Two

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Kurt Kitayama's 63 at Aronimink: The Lowest Sunday in Major Championship History, Shared

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 numbers in the leaders’ groups, took most of the day to materialise. The number that mattered first arrived from much further down the page. Kurt Kitayama, thirty-three, two-time PGA Tour winner, started the final round of the 108th PGA Championship at four over par and walked off the eighteenth green at three under. The card he signed for was a bogey-free seven-under 63 on a par seventy that had spent four days giving up almost nothing of the kind. It tied the lowest final round in the history of major championship golf and made him only the second player to shoot 63 on a PGA Championship Sunday. The first was Brad Faxon at Riviera in 1995, a round which, in its time, earned a Ryder Cup wildcard rather than the trophy itself.