Aaron Rai survived a playoff against the reigning FedEx Cup champion in Tommy Fleetwood and the lowest round of Rory McIlroy’s DP World Tour career to win the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
Aaron Rai led the PGA Tour in Driving Accuracy last season. We asked him what some golf-swing priorities for him are – and what the rest of us can learn from him.
The son of an Indian father and a Kenyan mother, the 29-year-old Englishman is unfailingly polite and the product of a culture that prides itself on that admirable characteristic.
Links golf is a multi-faceted affair, one that asks an often-dizzying array of questions all the way from driver to putter. That is why so many believe golf in the land where the game began is the ultimate test, both mentally and physically.