The week began with the reigning Masters Tournament champion, Rory McIlroy, suggesting that Aronimink didn’t require much precision off the tee to be successful.In the end, arguably the most accurate driver of the ball in the sport became a major champion. A day that began with 43 players within six shots of the lead — the most after 54 holes in men’s major championship history — ended with Aaron Rai lifting the Wanamaker Trophy.Here are the top numbers and notes to know from the final round of the 108th PGA Championship.1. For the first time in more than a century, an Englishman has won the PGA Championship. Jim Barnes won the first two ever held, in 1916 and 1919, when the entire proceedings were match play. Rai joins McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, as the men’s major winners of 2026. Since the first Masters was contested in 1934, this is the first instance of European players winning the first two majors of a given season.Rai has ranked first, second and fifth on the PGA Tour the last three seasons, respectively, in driving accuracy. Sunday, he hit seven of his last eight fairways, helping him to play those 10 holes in bogey-free, 6-under-par golf. His signature moment in the final round was a massive 68-foot putt at 17, the second-longest made by any player in the field all week. Rai holed 182 feet of putts Sunday, his most in a single round in his PGA Tour career.2. Rai improved his score each day this week, posting rounds of 70, 69, 67 and 65. He is the first men’s major winner since Mark O’Meara at the 1998 Masters to shoot a better score each round than the one before, and the first PGA Champion to do so. He also snapped a streak of 10 consecutive American victories at the PGA Championship, a run that started with Jimmy Walker at Baltusrol in 2016.As one would expect, Rai was near the top of the board of several statistics for the week: second in strokes gained approach, fourth in driving accuracy, fifth in strokes gained putting and ninth in greens in regulation. But maybe the most revealing metric was reflected in where he wasn’t demonstrably better than the field. Rai’s average approach shot this week was 170.3 yards, 7 yards longer than the field average and ranked 67th among players who made the cut. Perhaps it’s fitting that the two-gloved Englishman, both hands protected as he plied his craft, won the PGA with a surgeon’s precision.3. Rai’s brilliant final-round 65 pushed his margin of victory to three shots. He is just the fourth player in the modern era to win his first career major title by three or more with a final-round score of 65 or lower. The other three instances are Jeff Sluman at the 1988 PGA and a pair of Open Championships at Royal Troon — Justin Leonard in 1997 and Henrik Stenson in 2016.