A finish for the ages caps a polarizing week at the PGA Championship

Rex Hoggard· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Hello and welcome into this edition of the Golf Channel Podcast with Rex and Lav. Well, folks, if you wanted to see what it looks like when a player blacks out on the golf course- [laughs] ... go ahead and rewatch what Aaron Rai did on the back nine at this PGA Championship. Incredible ball striking, incredible poise, incredible putting, and it led to a three-shot stunner at Aronim. Rex, can you believe that back nine surge from first time major champion, Aaron Rai? I mean, six under over his last 10 holes. That's really impressive on that golf course. We didn't see any separation at all over the course of four days. Well, I'll say three and a half days, 'cause he finally did it on the second nine. And I think everybody was anticipating something very dramatic coming down the stretch. I think you and I both were bracing for a playoff. I'm doing the notes for our newsletter right now, and I went back to a quote that Kerry Haig, the chief championships officer, gave me a few weeks ago, that he hopes for a playoff. I think he's probably the only person on property that hopes for a playoff. And the idea being is that they're very excited. There's a three-hole aggregate playoff at the PGA Championship, and I tend to agree. Selfishly, I think everybody in the media, certainly you and I [laughs] in that category, probably don't look forward to it, but that's where the expectation was, because again, it was historic lack of separation. I mean- I mean, you look at ... I mean, it was crazy. Rex, there was 22, 22 players were separated by four shots, 30 players were separated by five. Of course there was going