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Viktor Hovland spoke with Golf Channel's Ryan Lavner after winning the 2026 Travelers Championship over Scottie Scheffler following Monday morning's playoff. Hovland talked about his nerves playing Sunday's final round and how he viewed making the playoff as a "bonus" — a change in mindset that was integral to winning the season's final signature event.
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Gil Hanse who helped lead the restoration of Aronimink Golf Club joined “Live From the PGA Championship” to take the crew on a drone tour of the front nine.
Gil Hanse who helped lead the restoration of Aronimink Golf Club joined “Live From the PGA Championship” to take the crew on a drone tour of the back nine.
Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm critiqued Aronimink’s restoration and tree removal. Gil Hanse, who helped lead that project, responded Tuesday night on “Live From the PGA Championship.”
Cameron Young is using a golf ball that would likely conform to rollback standards, Rex Hoggard reports on “Live From the PGA Championship.”
Aronimink isn’t a long course and the greens are its primary defense. Smylie Kaufman highlights one of those difficult, sloping putting surfaces at the par-4 11th hole.
Rory McIlroy had some toe issues Tuesday but Todd Lewis reports that McIlroy’s not overly concerned. McIlroy did, however, express that he’s in an overall better mental frame of mind coming into this PGA than he was a year ago when he won his first Masters.
Brandel Chamblee believes that Scottie Scheffler is clearly superior to Rory McIlroy. Paul McGinley would beg to differ. And that’s what they do in Tuesday’s “Live From the PGA Championship” at Aronimink.
Scottie Scheffler has finished runner-up in his last three PGA Tour starts. This week, he’s the defending champion of the PGA Championship and looking for his fifth career major title. He met the media Tuesday at Aronimink.
Golf Channel’s Kira Dixon discusses the right toe injury that forced Rory McIlroy off the course on Tuesday at Aronimink and what lingering concerns there are ahead of Thursday’s opening round.