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PGA Championship – A Week at Aronimink

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The 108th PGA Championship is well under way at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, and it has already delivered plenty to talk about — not all of it from the leaderboard.

The 2026 PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club

A Donald Ross Masterpiece

Aronimink is a genuine classic. Donald Ross designed it in 1928, considered it his finest work, and the course has done little to argue against him since. Precision over power is the governing principle — rolling fairways, demanding bunkering, and green complexes that have refused to yield cheaply to the world’s best players for nearly a century. (Wikipedia) World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who won last year’s PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, arrives at Aronimink looking to defend — despite three consecutive runner-up finishes on tour heading into the week. A field of 156 players is competing for the Wanamaker Trophy, with around 200,000 spectators expected through the gates across the week. (CBS Philadelphia)

It is, in short, a major championship firing on all cylinders.

The Weather Has Its Say

Stormy weather at Aroniminik

The weather, however, has not totally cooperated. Play was suspended on Tuesday during practice rounds, resuming just under two hours later. Saturday’s third round was halted again at 8:15 AM due to dangerous conditions on the course, with starting times pushed back and tee times restructured across both nines. May in the Delaware Valley is not without its charms, but it comes with no guarantees.

The PGA Championship will produce a worthy champion and a week’s worth of compelling golf. But for those watching from home and feeling that familiar urge — to play rather than observe — May on the Iberian Peninsula remains one of the more straightforward arguments in European golf travel.

May on the Iberian Peninsula

South Course Quinta do Lago

May is one of the more reliably beautiful months in the golf calendars of both Portugal and Spain. The Algarve’s courses tend to be at their finest condition of the year — fairways lush from the winter rains, greens running true, the mornings warm and still. The Costa del Sol tells a similar story. Neither is a secret, exactly, but both bear repeating when the alternative involves weather warnings and shelter announcements.

We cover Portugal and Spain in full, from tee times to hotel stays and transfers. If the mood is taking you, it’s a good time to start looking.

The Fitzpatrick Brothers Win the Zurich Classic

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— and Golf Has Its Feel-Good Story of the Year

Some victories are about the numbers. Birdies made, strokes gained, FedExCup points banked. And then there are victories that are about something else entirely.

The 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans was that something else.

Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick with trophy after winning the 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans at TPC Louisiana

On Sunday at TPC Louisiana, Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick — Sheffield brothers, golfing siblings, and now PGA Tour champions — held their nerve through one of the most dramatic back nines of the season to win the Tour’s only team event by a single stroke. Their combined total of 31-under 257 set a new tournament record. The manner in which they got there will not be forgotten in a hurry.

A four-shot lead, and then a wobble

Matt Fitzpatrick arrived in New Orleans in the form of his life. His 2025–26 season had already featured a DP World Tour Championship title in November, a runner-up at The Players Championship, and a Valspar Championship victory in March. His win at the RBC Heritage the week prior — a playoff victory over world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler — had taken his season earnings to nearly $8.3 million across four events.

He was, in short, the hottest player on the planet. And he brought his younger brother along for the ride.

Alex Fitzpatrick, a DP World Tour regular, had already broken through for his maiden professional victory at the Hero Indian Open in March. The pair entered Sunday’s alternate-shot finale with a four-shot lead, after a tournament-record 15-under 57 in Saturday’s best-ball round.

Then the back nine happened.

A double bogey at the par-4 12th. A bogey at 14. The four-shot cushion evaporated. The teams of Alex Smalley and Hayden Springer, and Kristoffer Reitan and Kris Ventura, were watching from the clubhouse at 30-under. The Fitzpatricks needed something from somewhere.

When it mattered most

It came, as it so often has this season, from the older brother.

Matt’s approach on the par-5 18th found a greenside bunker. From 35 yards out, he splashed to inside a foot, leaving Alex with a tap-in birdie to seal the win.

“I couldn’t feel my hands. I couldn’t feel my legs. I couldn’t feel anything,” said Alex, crouching over the ball before rolling in the putt. “It’s a pretty life-changing thing.”

He wasn’t wrong. The victory earned Alex a two-year Tour exemption through 2028, along with entries into the next four Signature Events, the 2026 PGA Championship, and the 2027 Players Championship.

History made, records broken

The Fitzpatricks became the first brothers ever to win on the PGA Tour, with Matt also becoming the first Englishman to win three or more times in a single year on Tour. The win moved him to the top of the FedExCup standings — a remarkable position for a player who spent much of the last two seasons finding his feet.

“To win a team event on the PGA Tour with my brother — I don’t know if it gets better than that,” said Matt, the US Open champion of 2022. “That’s how special it feels.”

Their parents were there on the 18th green to see it. The full family portrait. The kind of moment golf was invented to produce.

What it means for the season ahead

The tour moves on to Miami this week, where the Cadillac Championship tees off at the iconic Blue Monster course at Trump National Doral — a $20 million Signature Event and the first return to that storied venue in a decade. Matt Fitzpatrick is in the field, naturally. Alex, fresh off a two-year Tour card, will be alongside him.

The Fitzpatrick era has well and truly arrived.