Aaron Rai’s life changed on the 18th green at Aronimink, but his lifestyle didn’t. Rai, 31 from Wolverhampton, became the first Englishman to win the PGA Championship since 1919, earning himself $3,690,000, and a lifetime exemption to the tournament doing it, and promptly said he was going to celebrate it all by going to Chipotle. He didn’t seem quite able to take in what he had achieved, and had no idea about what would come next, whether it was a tilt at another major, or a run at the Ryder Cup, only that it would all begin with a visit to his favourite burrito joint.
“I haven’t thought that far ahead just yet,” Rai said when he was asked how he would celebrate. “He’ll probably have Chipotle,” his wife, Gaurika Bishnoi, cut in. Presumably he’s buying.
