A complete list of the golf equipment Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick used to win the PGA Tour’s 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

A complete list of the golf equipment Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick used to win the PGA Tour’s 2026 Zurich Classic of New Orleans:

Speaking to the media following his stunning victory at the 108th PGA Championship, Aaron Rai reflects on the hard work that he, his family and his support network have put into making him such a hard man to beat.

How proud are you to become the first Englishman to win the PGA Championship since 1919?

AARON RAI: I wasn’t aware of that fact coming into the week, but it got mentioned a couple of times during media interviews on Saturday, so I was aware of it coming into today.

So, yeah, I extremely proud. There have been a lot of incredible English golfers over those hundred-plus years who have gone on to achieve incredible things and had phenomenal careers, so to win this event and then to be the person that’s the first one to have won it in a long time from England is an amazing thing and something to be extremely proud of.

Can you just describe your emotions as you’re playing those final few holes, and your amazing birdie putt 17. How did you manage to keep so calm and produce the kind of golf that you did?

I think, firstly, the golf course really demands it. It was a true major championship setup in terms of how difficult it was, and how penalising it was, but it also rewarded good play. The nature of the course, and the nature of the shots that are required over the last few holes, just require a lot of focus.

The putt on 17 was incredible. I was just trying to focus on speed and get it close. It started to look good line-wise with probably about 15 feet to go, and it slowed up nicely as well – but it was a real bonus to see that one go in.

Aaron, two shots prior to that putt really stood out for me on that back nine. Firstly, the long bunker shot on 13, and secondly your approach on 16. Could you walk us through what you were thinking about on both of those and how pleased you were to pull off those shots in that moment?

Those were two really good shots. The bunker shot on 13 was on a slight upslope, which in a way helped me to stay really aggressive on it. But the upslope also made it difficult because it was such a long bunker shot. It was probably 40 yards or so. I just stayed really committed and tried to trust the strike, and it came out extremely well. I was actually trying to hit that probably 12 feet short, and it came out probably a little fast, but it worked out fine in the end.

And the shots on 16. I hit a great tee shot to hold the fairway there. That was a really hard fairway to hit. And the second shot was a great number for a 5-iron. The wind was off the left. The ball was slightly below my feet. So it kind of just suited a shot that was falling off the wind. I hit it very well, great strike, and kind of worked its way down there to 15 feet or so. They were probably two of my best shots on the back nine.

I know your parents made a lot of sacrifices for you to get here, especially your father, who got you into the game. Can just reflect on what all that means and kind of how they got you here?

It’s probably hard for me to really express everything that I feel towards them. I think I’ll get way too emotional to speak. Yeah, starting with my dad, he was with me every day that I went to practice from the age of 4 or 5 years old. He quit his job and started to focus on my golf from a really young age.

I used to read a lot about golf. He used to obviously be active in everything he did with me around the game. My mum has been absolutely incredible as well. She worked extremely long hours to just provide for the house, especially with my dad also not working as much. So, she did a lot of things, and her support has been phenomenal.

Obviously, I would love to share this with them. It would be amazing if they were here. I can’t put into words how much they’ve done in terms of the support, in terms of the care, in terms of love. Again, I wouldn’t be here without them.

You’ve won big tournaments before, but when you looked at that jam-packed leaderboard today, what gave you the belief that you were going to be able to win your first major championship?

That’s a great question. Honestly, I didn’t look too much at the leaderboard. Obviously I knew there were a lot of people that were relatively close, but I think regardless of how bunched that it was, it still required a really good, strong round of golf. Again, the course really demanded it this week, and it was very punishing. As soon as you lost a split-second of focus at any time, whether it was a tee shot, an approach or a putt, you were in danger of dropping shots.

So I think the focus was very much on the golf course, on continuing to run through some good processes, and to just see where that put me during the round. I didn’t really look at too many leaderboards. I had a sense of how things were going from the crowds, but I just did a really good job of playing the golf course and not worrying about anything else.

You’re obviously very connected to your heritage and your Indian and Kenyan roots. I was just wondering what a vision is of modern English sporting success really to have somebody with your background achieving something like this?

I’m very proud to be from England. That’s where I grew up and that’s where a lot of my family still live. But of course, I’m very proud of my Indian and Kenyan roots as well. My mum grew up in Kenya and her side of the family lived there for a number of years before they moved to England. My sister lives in Kenya now and my mum still spends a lot of time there.

Going back a couple of generations, both of my sets of grandparents from my mum and dad’s side were from India. All I can say is I’m very proud to be a mix of all of them.

Golf instruction is at the heart of the PGA Championship, and you have such a longstanding relationship with Me and My Golf. Wondering if you can talk about that, how deep it goes back in your life, and what it means to have their support and win on this stage and celebrates golf instruction?

They’ve been phenomenal. Andrew Proudman and Piers Ward are the two guys involved with Me and My Golf. I’ve known Andrew since I was four years old. He used to work at the pro shop on the driving range me and my dad used to go to. I was four, he was 18, so he was there before he turned professional.

I met Piers when he was 8 or 9 years old. So we grew up in the same city. They started to coach me very soon after that. I was probably 10 years old. When I call them my coaches, I almost feel disrespectful calling them just my coaches. They’ve been so much more to me than that from a young age, also as a teenager, and also on this journey as a professional golfer. They’ve been my mentors, my big brothers. They’ve almost been like family to me.

And the number of times that we’ve been on a golf course or on a driving range in cold winters. I remember we played the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth probably six years ago now, and Piers was on the putting green with me until 11.30pm on a Tuesday night, and then he had to drive two hours back to Wolverhampton, and he was just with me the whole day.

They just go above and beyond for me in every single way. They’ve played a huge part in this trophy and a huge part in my development as a golfer.

Aaron, I know people always like to ask you about the iron covers and the gloves and a few things that you do differently. Golf can often be a game that pushes people to conform a certain way. I’m curious if you felt that pressure, especially as a junior golfer, and how you were able to double down on being yourself?

That’s a great question. I think my dad played a really big role in that. For the most part, it was just the two of us who used to go onto the golf course and practice together, probably up until I was 13 or 14. So I think he was very much an advocate to really just stay in your lane, focus on the things that you can do.

And I didn’t really mix with a lot of other junior golfers, which didn’t give me a perspective of what was normal. So I think he kind of sheltered me to be able to develop in a way that made sense for me, in a way that I guess was a little bit unique with the two gloves and the iron covers.

By the time I began to play more club golf and professional golf, I felt like I was strong enough in why I did certain things to be able to continue to move that forward. I knew the reasons why I do them. I believe in the reasons why I do them. So I had no reason to shift from that as I got older. So, yeah, that’s probably the main reason behind it.

You said you didn’t really mix with other junior golfers. Why was that?

That’s a really good question. Up until the age of around 12 years old I used to play off basically a customised course length, which gradually got longer and longer every year from the age of kind of 7 to 12. I was 12 when I played off ladies tees for the first time. Before that, I was playing off the fairways and trying to make the course short enough for me to score par or better, even as an 8, 9, 10-year-old.

I thought it was a great idea. My dad thought it was a great idea. But that naturally that kind of kept me away from club golf and medal golf. I would still play in junior events, but only in my age group, just to really protect myself and what we were trying to work on and what we were trying to kind of build towards.

Then, when I was about 13 or 14, I was long enough to be able to play off the men’s tees, and that’s when I started to play a little bit of club golf. Again, by that age, I’d gotten so used to practicing a certain way and that started to feel really comfortable. So even though I was maybe good enough and long enough to compete at club level, I didn’t play a huge amount of it. Then within two or three years of that I turned professional, so that was pretty much my journey through to that point.

Was that a method that you borrowed from someone else, or was that one of your father’s own ideas?

I used to play in a tournament called the Wee Wonders, which had a local stage, a regional stage, and a national stage. If you managed to progress through all of those, you qualified to play in the US Kids World Championship. I was fortunate enough to qualify for that at the age of 8 years old.

When we got to America, this was a system that a lot of juniors had adopted at that age of forward tees and gradually making the course longer as you grow, and my dad really thought that idea was great in terms of just installing the abilities and the skills to be able to score and the distance would just follow with age and with growth. So it was after that point that we really stuck to that for the next four years.

Can you just run us through who’s on Team Rai, who your support system is?

Professionally, starting with my sponsor, Shabir Randeree. He’s almost been like a second father to me. He supported me with my golf and travel and expenses. He supported my education as well. He paid for me to go to a private school. He’s been there since I was a kid and gave me so many opportunities that I never would have had otherwise.

Andrew Proudman and Piers Ward from Me and My Golf. Andrew Caldwell from Active Therapy, he’s my trainer and physio. I’ve worked a lot with John Graham over the last two years as well. So, yeah, I’ve got a really close-knit team.

Do you have an idea of what’s next? Are you much of a goal setter in your career? Do you think about things such as Ryder Cups or other titles to tick off?

I try not to consciously focus on it too much. These things are always around, whether it’s the Ryder Cup, whether it’s the next event, whether it’s the next major. So those are things that you can never completely ignore, but I try not to focus on them as real motivations to push me forward.

I hope to continue to move forward in a pretty similar way in terms of practice, training, application towards the game, and we’ll see where that takes me.

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The winner of the 2026 The American Express, World No. 1, Scottie Scheffler Interview

Scottie, you captured your 20th win here, and in your season debut. What does it mean to cross that threshold for your 20th win?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I had not really thought about that very much. I mean, that’s a pretty cool feat to get to. This week in particular was a nice week. Got off to a good start over there at La Quinta, and then I came over here and kept the momentum going on these two courses.

Today was a day in which I played pretty nice and did some good things out there. I hit a lot of wedges really close to the hole, gave myself some easy birdies. And then when I was out of position did a good job of getting the ball up-and-down.

Q. It was a fun final pairing with a fellow friend, Si Woo Kim, and 18-year-old Blades Brown. What do you remember coming down the difficult stretch here?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: It’s always fun getting to play with Si Woo, we play a lot of golf together. He’s such a talented player. And then Blades obviously has a lot of talent as well. It was fun to see his game today. He definitely has a bright future out here for sure.

Q. When you hear the comparisons now, only the third player before the age of 30 to win 20 and have four majors, with Tiger and Jack, and 36th all time on the win list. What’s your reaction to being put in those terms?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I mean, any time you can get mentioned with those guys it means you’re doing some stuff right. At the end of the day it’s not something that will occupy many of my thoughts day-to-day. When I was thinking about getting ready for this week I was just trying to prepare and do the best that I could. Hopefully we’ll get out of the here tonight and get ready to gear up again, get some rest, and then get ready to kind of do it all over again in a couple weeks. I don’t spend too much time thinking about the milestones or anything like that.

Q. At the beginning of the day you’re one shot back, but you’re the world No. 1, and you’re the guy with the most wins in that group. Do you think you’ve got an advantage because of who you are and what you’ve done in the last four years?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Not necessarily. I think you got to go out there, and there’s a reason we play the tournament. There’s a reason why we have to finish off the tournament. You don’t get awarded the trophy on the 16th hole. You got to finish the tournament. I was going against two guys today in the final group that are really, really talented players. Si Woo has so much talent. He’s so good at golf. Then Blades, this is my first time seeing him, but anybody at 18 years old that can make it into the final pairing of a PGA TOUR event’s doing something right. And then there was plenty of other guys behind us chasing us. And it’s a course where you got to go out there and make birdies. So there was a lot of challenges today, but I’m proud of the way we played and put up a nice round.

Q. You would have taken the trophy at 16 green instead of going to 17 tee today?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: (Laughing). Yeah, I would have taken it on the 1st if they would give it to me there (laughing).

Q. And you competed. I’m just curious, do you have to win to have fun? Because you talk about that a lot.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I mean, do I have to win to have fun? I would hope not. But winning is a lot more fun than losing.

Q. What’s the most fun part about competing, is it winning or is it something else?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Well, I think it’s really cool to step up there on the first tee — and I was just a kid dreaming of playing golf on the PGA TOUR, so to be able to come out here and play in final groups, play in front of crowds, play on the tour that I dreamed of playing on is a really cool feeling. Being in the arena, being in contention is a lot of fun, just because it’s something that we practice and work so hard for, so when you get in those moments you’re prepared and you’re able to enjoy the competition. This is something that is fun for me, but it can be really hard when things don’t go your way. It’s a lot more fun winning than losing.

Q. You spend all this off-season kind of preparing yourself to come out here and play well, and then you do what you did today. There’s like, I don’t know, nine shots inside six feet or whatever today. Is that even better than what you could have expected coming out here?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I mean, there’s always a certain amount of rust when it comes to playing competitive golf. I think you come out here, you can simulate as best you can at home, but you can only get into the heat of the moment when you’re posting a score and you’re in contention when you’re at a tournament. So it’s nice to see some of the stuff that I’ve been being practicing and working on has paid off. I work really hard at keeping my wedges sharp, so it was nice today to get some good numbers and be able to hit some wedges in there really close.

It’s a lot easier holing a 2-footer than it is a 10-footer. So those little differences sometimes in the sharpness of where I’m at with my wedges can make a big difference. Today was a day in which I was able to make a good amount of birdies, and a lot of those birdies weren’t really long putts. So definitely I think it helps, especially when you’re playing in the final group.

Q. You smile when Meredith and Bennett are out there. But you were pretty low key in any kind of celebration. I realize it was a big margin for the most part. When do you, and how do you feel like you’ve won — like how does it feel to you, you have 20 now, do they feel different or how would you, how do you process them?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, that’s a good question. I think sometimes it’s hard to process when you’re in the moment. In order to get to the position of being in the final group, in order to get to the position where you have a large lead, you have to do such a good job of mentally staying in a good place on the golf course. So most of the day I’m trying to remain calm, focus on the things that I can execute, and then it’s a matter of going out and hitting the shots.

So in order for me to do that I have to stay focused, I have to stay relaxed. When the tournament’s over, you know, I think you spend so much of the day trying to really stay ready, stay on top of where things are at, so when the tournament ends it’s kind of like, okay, it’s almost like more of a relief now that the day’s over and I’m able to win the tournament.

This golf course can put a lot of stress on you. Especially playing with the lead. It’s challenging finishing off a tournament. You got an island green on 17, water on 18, there’s trouble all around the golf course. So I would say it’s a challenging place to play with the lead. So when the tournament’s over I’m a bit tired from really focusing so hard the entire round.

Q. Another fun factor question. I changed the word to make it a satisfaction level. From your experience, do you find any difference in the satisfaction level of a tight one with, like Bob at BMW or Ben Griffin at Napa, or ones where you kind of got it in hand, 4-, 5-shot win?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: There’s definitely a different feeling at the end. If you look back at BMW, being able to hole that chip on 17, in a tight match the whole day, you have to execute when it matters the most. So also that was a big comeback for me that day. I started the day maybe four shots behind him. It’s a bit of a different feeling. Today I just did a good job of really staying patient, staying in my own little world, and doing the things I needed to do, especially when I got out of position.

I mean, I hit some really, really nice pitch shots today to where I didn’t have to go up there and hole a 6-footer, I was able to walk up and tap in a 1-footer and then we’re on to the next holing.

13’s a good example. I had a little bit of a lead, and you get to this hole where there’s water in play. Maybe I had a three-shot lead at the time and it’s one of the hardest holes at the golf course. And I hit my shot to the right, and it’s like, okay, missed it in the correct spot. Instead of chipping it up there and having to hole an eight-footer, I chipped it up there to six inches, and it saves me some energy, saves me some stress off of the round, and I’m able to move on to the next hole.

Q. Last year with the injury you kind of had to play your way into form. This year you obviously have the full off-season to do what you need to do. Can you compare and contrast how it felt returning last year to your first tournament compared to this year when you had all that time to do what you wanted to do?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, it’s a bit easier this way. I’m going to try to continue this into the future. This is a little easier off-season than last. It’s just, I mean, it’s one of those things. You look at last year, it is different just because I had made what I felt was so much progress in the off-season, and then to have that basically taken away by four to six weeks of inactivity from golf, that has an effect. To fine tune the skills that we have out here takes a lot of work. Like the chipping. There’s a big difference between hitting a chip to a foot versus five feet. If I hit it to foot I’m probably never going to miss that foot putt. But if you hit it to five feet your percentages of making that putt go down. When you just kind of see that over the course of four days, that has an effect on where my game is at. So being able to have the whole off-season to prepare to come out here — I did take a nice break at the end of the year, but to have that time to prepare and get my body and mind right in order to compete I think really paid off early in the season.

Q. Along with the new history that you authored today with your 20th win, we of course got our proud history in the Coachella Valley, 67 consecutive years of TOUR golf. Provided some uncertainty of what the schedule could look like for next year, what would you as the new AmEx champion and we’re very proud to call you that here, what would you say about keeping this tournament when it is and where it is?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I mean, that stuff is all above my pay grade. I come out here and compete where the tournaments are. And the PGA TOUR runs the best tournaments in the world. I think I can we have the best TOUR in the world, and the best competition. And tournaments like these are really fun to play. We get spoiled out here this week. The golf courses are in fantastic condition, the crowds are really nice, and it’s a fun week to come out here and play golf.

Q. You talk a lot about staying patient when you got off to a great start. And I hear that from a lot of players who stay patient. Can you give an idea of what it looks like when you’re not, just so we’ll know?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: If things are flying around that’s typically not a good sign, whether it be clubs or other objects. That’s typically a bad sign. No, I think that especially when you look at a golf course like this that’s extremely important, because you can’t really force it around this place.

I hit a nice shot to No. 4. But then I played the next hole, the 5th hole, I played that par-5 how I would describe quite smart. I hit a nice drive into the fairway, which was almost a mistake, I was almost aiming down the right rough line. Then we miss it in the correct spot left of the green. I’m able to take advantage of my short game, get the ball up-and-down, and make an easy birdie.

If I was trying to force things, maybe I felt like I had to make eagle on that hole, maybe I chase after that pin on the right site and hit it in the water or put it in a tough spot over the green. A lot of staying patient is just continuing to execute and play the right shots.

Q. One hole at a time. That’s just a great cliche, but…

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I mean, like if you look at my front nine today, it was not by any means perfect ball striking. I had a few misses to the left. But when you look at the holes where I missed left it was always the correct miss. So missing on the right side, getting the ball to the right areas, and being able to take advantage of some of the things that I do well, whether it’s my short game or putting or whatever it is. But, yeah, it was a good round.

Q. Can you think of a time where you lost patience from a standpoint that you learned, don’t do that again?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Off the top of my head, no. But, I mean, my whole career I think you’re always constantly learning, you’re always constantly figuring out how you can get a little bit better. And a lot of times it’s, how can you approach shots the right way. Sometimes when you’re either under the gun or you feel like you need to press, that’s when you tend to make poor decisions.

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We’ve reached the final round of the 2026 Sony Open in Hawaii, the first PGA Tour event of the new season. And on Sunday at Waialae Country Club, players will be fighting for their share of the huge Sony Open purse of $9.1 million. But their ultimate payout, of course, depends on where they finish on the leaderboard.

With 18 holes to play, Davis Riley has set himself apart from the pack. Riley’s 12-total through three rounds is good enough for a two-shot lead. But 54-hole leads are notoriously hard to maintain on Tour.

That means the trio of players in second — Chris Gotterup, Harry Hall and Kevin Roy — have a great shot at coming from behind to win. And whoever ends up with the victory will walk away with the $1.638 million winner’s share.

Further down the leaderboard are two three-time major champions who would make waves with a victory: Jordan Spieth and Vijay Singh.

Spieth (six under) is vying for his first Tour win since 2022. Singh (four under), who is 62 years old, is hoping to back up his incredible made cut with an historic win.

You can view a full purse breakdown for the 2026 Sony Open in Hawaii below.

2026 Sony Open payout breakdown

1st: $1,638,000
2nd: $991,900
3rd: $627,900
4th: $445,900
5th: $373,100
6th: $329,875
7th: $307,125
8th: $284,375
9th: $266,175
10th: $247,975
11th: $229,775
12th: $211,575
13th: $193,375
14th: $175,175
15th: $166,075
16th: $156,975
17th: $147,875
18th: $138,775
19th: $129,675
20th: $120,575
21st: $111,475
22nd: $102,375
23rd: $95,095
24th: $87,815
25th: $80,535
26th: $73,255
27th: $70,525
28th: $67,795
29th: $65,065
30th: $62,335
31st: $59,875
32nd: $56,875
33rd: $54,145
34th: $51,870
35th: $49,595
36th: $47,320
37th: $45,045
38th: $43,225
39th: $41,405
40th: $39,585
41st: $37,765
42nd: $35,945
43rd: $34,125
44th: $32,305
45th: $30,485
46th: $28,665
47th: $26,845
48th: $25,389
49th: $24,115
50th: $23,387
51st: $22,841
52nd: $22,295
53rd: $21,931
54th: $21,567
55th: $21,385
56th: $21,203
57th: $21,021
58th: $20,839
59th: $20,657
60th: $20,475
61st: $20,293
62nd: $20,111
63rd: $19,929
64th: $19,747
65th: $19,565
66th: $19,383
67th: $19,201
68th: $19,019
69th: $18,837
70th: $18,655
71st: $18,473
72nd: $18,291
73rd: $18,109
74th: $17,927
75th: $17,745

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