Aaron Rai has always been the nice guy in two gloves. Now he’s the nice guy in … – ABC17NEWS

By Dana O’Neil, CNN Newtown Square, Pennsylvania (CNN) — After he signed his card, the one that made official his in-the-clubhouse best 9-under for the PGA Championship, Aaron Rai grabbed the hand of his wife, Gaurika Bishnoi. The two ambled around the metal gates that keep out the people who don’t belong in the official areas, circled around the paved walkway and made their way toward the Aronimink clubhouse. As they walked, his right hand in her left, their arms swung back and forth casually as if they were out for an ordinary Sunday evening stroll – happily oblivious to the two cameramen walking backward in front of them, the phalanx of photographers trailing them, the guy dangling a boom mic and the Goodyear blimp hovering nearby. As if any of this was normal. In the course of one afternoon, Rai eagled nine, sunk an absurd 50-odd foot putt at 17, mastered a course that seemed unconquerable, kept at bay a pack of baying wolves that included Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Cameron Smith, Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele, and won the PGA Championship, his first major and only second PGA Tour win of his career. All that while putting to
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