A complete list of the golf equipment Kristoffer Reitan used to win the PGA Tour’s 2026 Trist Championship

A complete list of the golf equipment Kristoffer Reitan used to win the PGA Tour’s 2026 Truist Championship:

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Gaming KBS Tour shafts 130 X in his Ping irons, the champion showcased elite-level ball striking all week long with precise distance control, penetrating trajectory, and exceptional feel under pressure. The KBS Tour profile continues to be a go-to option for players looking for stability, workability, and consistency at the highest level of professional golf.

With another PGA Tour win added to the record books, KBS continues to prove why the world’s best players trust KBS products week after week on golf’s biggest stages.

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Yes, it’s red, white and blue, but the Liberty Line Collection is tons to Philadelphia-inspired details and images in honor of Aronimink’s home town.

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Philadelphia doesn’t do disposable history. This is the city where independence was argued into existence by men wearing wool coats in the middle of summer and it feels like every brick building downtown has a plaque explaining why the country changed because of something that happened inside. Like Boston and New York, this Northeast is heavy with symbolism, so you don’t have to force it.

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It’s a major week in golf and that means it’s a major week in golf apparel.

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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Matt and Cameron Kuchar reflect on a record-setting, emotional PNC Championship victory, blending dominant play, family memories, gratitude, and faith. 

Q. You guys came in wanting these belts, and you got it, you get to take that with you back to TCU. Talk about today and this weekend overall, how much does this mean to you to do this together?

MATT KUCHAR: This is something we’ve been — had our sites on for many years, since Cameron got started, I played my first year with Dad, he has some great memories. The classic memories of Dad, and Cameron was caddying and we were just shy of the green in two, close to the water’s edge, and his chipping was never his strong suit and he completely whiffed the chip. I don’t think Cameron could see all the way down the hill. Dad is smiling from above.

Cameron also knew he had a runway in this event. Cameron and Carson have been great partners. Cam and I have had each chances each year Cam had played, and come close. Some of those were frustrating not to play better on Sunday but man, this Sunday, I don’t know that it could have gone any better.

Q. 28 years in this event, you set multiple scoring records, finishing 33-under, dominating the margin of victory, were you watching the scoreboards while you were out there or just having fun?

CAMERON KUCHAR: Just having fun, really. I kind of knew on — there’s a scoreboard on the par 5, 14. We had a four-shotter, just keep it going. Checked again on 17, and this might be a record. See what we do on 18.

But I think this could be a record. I snatch a drive and he hits a great 7-iron to about a foot and a half. Then we find out right after they set the record by five shots. It’s pretty amazing after going out 15-under, 13-under, last year.

MATT KUCHAR: I think I only putted about three times. His chance to do solo birdie, he was dominating again today. I was glad to come through and help out a couple times today.

Q. And two eagles today.

CAMERON KUCHAR: 3, he hit a great hybrid a little draw around the tree 12 feet passed and rolled in the putt, which that early in the round —

MATT KUCHAR: It was certainly nice getting off to birdie, birdie starts. The Dalys, they just missed birdie on 2. You never know how your day is going to progress but when you see a couple putts go in early, it helps. Birdieing 1 and 2, it helps, but to see the eagle go in on 3, wow, this could be signs of a really good day to come.

Q. Are you going to be wearing those belts for the holiday with the family?

CAMERON KUCHAR: For sure.

MATT KUCHAR: I have got a terrible coat from The Heritage tournament, from the Hilton Head tournament, that comes out over Christmas. It’s the perfect Christmas color.

So it comes out once a year over Christmas. I look forward to bringing it out. And I certainly love to matching it with this. This is something I’ll never forget. I think we all have so much to be grateful for. To be part of this event, just to be included in this event, we’re certainly grateful for, to do this — I don’t know if you believe in karma, if you believe in fate, whatever you believe in, there’s something — something magical that does exist. I’m a believer in God that Dad is up above looking down, and that — what happened on 18, I could hardly stand up and hit a shot. For me to hit it to a foot, makes me think there’s something more out there (tearing up). Just miss — miss Pops.

Q. What would Pops say?

MATT KUCHAR: Certainly be so proud. I think back, and I think people have told me that as time goes on, you stop thinking of things you miss and thinking about things you’re grateful for and the good times you had. I certainly think back to some big fist pumps we and I out inside the ropes together and outside the ropes together. There would have been certainly some big fist pumps and certainly a lot of pride.

Q. I know it’s scramble and the numbers get skewed, but how good of a round of golf was that for you today?

CAMERON KUCHAR: That was amazing. I wasn’t keeping as much track today as I was yesterday but I probably made five or six solo birdies. Every now and then, I would let him know, all right, I made that one myself. But he also made a few solos and he’d come right back and he’d go, “That was all me right there.”

It was just fun just going back-and-forth like that.

MATT KUCHAR: His putting was incredible. If I can give a shoutout to Bettinardi. We were up in Chicago over Thanksgiving. Went into the Bettinardi factory. The guys took us back to the hive which is cool for kids into one-off putters and they let us pick out putters. Cam picked out — makes me think out to “The Natural,” little bat boy and goes and picks out a winner. And Cameron picked out a winner out of this group.

I’ve never seen him putt so good in my life.

And if I can sidebar; Bettinardis are having some family issues, if there’s anybody that can send some prayers their way, could use some.

But the putter he picked out is just amazing and he made it work today. Again for me to putt only three times in a round of golf is pretty crazy.

Q. And then again, score notwithstanding, what would your best round have been out on the AJGA or wherever?

CAMERON SMITH: My best round in my life?

Q. Performance. Not necessarily score?

MATT KUCHAR: He’s lit up some people at Gaza Ranch in the summer. There have been some really low scores. I’m glad I wasn’t in those groups because he would have dusted me pretty good.

So far, I think he’s clipped me three of times but I think there are plenty of rounds. Gaza Ranch has probably been some of the highlights with some really low rounds, some 64s out there at Gaza Ranch that did some damage for sure.

Q. Detailed oriented, what three holes did you put on?

CAMERON KUCHAR: 12 —

MATT KUCHAR: Putted on 2 and missed. Missed the one on 12.

CAMERON SMITH: 2, 12 and 8.

MATT KUCHAR: I was glad I stepped up and made one on 2. I felt like kept us going. Got some confidence. Hopefully did my job of freeing Cameron up. He was free and kept pouring in putts.

Q. Can you try to make sense of that? You guys played 36 holes and finished 33-under. I mean, that’s absurd, isn’t it?

CAMERON KUCHAR: Missed three.

MATT KUCHAR: It is absurd. It’s pretty magical, and again, you go back to those things, if you believe in karma or fate or something greater from above, there’s got to be something else going on.

I know that I feel confident in my game, certainly his game. I keep seeing him improve and improve and it’s so fun for me to see him continue to get better, and for him to put on a show when it really matters when cameras are out — I don’t think he’s been on a stage. He’s played in some big junior events but certainly when you get on a national scene like this, it’s unique and he rose to the occasion in a big way.

Q. Did your playing partners say anything to you, like “stop it”?

MATT KUCHAR: No, Dalys were so nice to play with. Any time we’ve been paired with them, they are always sweethearts of people. We always have a great time. They couldn’t be more encouraging.

I know always seems like you’re going to play with the Dalys and there’s going to be some sideshow stuff going on. Certainly they bring out a lot of fans. A lot of people come, they just love the Dalys but they could not be sweeter people. They are awfully nice to play with.

Q. What are perspectives that your dad gave you as a young athlete that you’ve tried to instill in Cameron?

CAMERON KUCHAR: Batting lefty in baseball is a big one?

MATT KUCHAR: I’d like to thing hard work. Our family shares a lot of stories from their childhoods and parents childhoods and Dad’s parents immigrated from the Ukraine to the United States. Hard workers were window washers. To see each generation get better, it was instilled, you provide for your kids to let them have a chance to have a better life than you did. But there’s hard work and you have a chance and you need to take advantage of the opportunity that you have.

For us, we’re quite fortunate just to be here in the U.S. to have that chance to have each generation become better and it’s fun to watch kids. I know Dad’s dad, just beamed with pride with what I did for a living, just loved seeing me play golf on the weekends, and they were funny. They could never understand why I would ever take a week off because they just said — they had nothing to watch when I took a week off.

But they were that type of people. They were just hard working — hard-working people, and to try to pass that whole mentality and that story on of, hey, you’ve got a chance, we’re going to give you the best chance. But it’s up to you to go make a better life.

It’s been fun. Certainly the beauty about sports is that you have to earn it. You have to put in the work. Nobody is blessed with being great just because they were born a great athlete. You either can play or you can’t. If you can play, you’ve earned that right and so it’s been great to see both my boys are doing well in their respective sport but it requires hard work, and they put the effort in, and it’s nice to see some results come.

Q. You’ve had some amazing victories and amazing weekends of competitive golf, where will this rank, these two rounds of golf that you’ve had?

MATT KUCHAR: Very special. These are the most unique Mike trophies. We’re certainly happy to display them proudly.

Most of my trophies come with a little photo of the family alongside the trophy ceremony, and you look back and it’s fun for me to see the kids through the ages from being tiny tots to where I could told both of them to where there’s no chance I could hold either one of them.

And now to have this shot with the family, it’s clearly missing — missing one (fighting back tears) but it’s special, very special.

Q. So where will the trophies go?

MATT KUCHAR: Got a neat area in the living room that kind of has some of my collection but it’s more of kids trophies, and it’s living that’s very much beside where the TV goes where we spend a lot of our time.

The kids have started putting in lots of their trophies, which is good fun. But these will be prominently displayed in that area, that’s for sure.

Q. Not going to Fort Worth?

MATT KUCHAR: Be interesting —

CAMERON SMITH: Probably leave it at the house but you never know. I think they would probably look the best together. So not going to steal his and take it to TCU.

MATT KUCHAR: We might have to make up Cameron some kind of rodeo champion belt buckle that signify — maybe a Willy Park logo on the belt buckle that will insignify the “2025 PNC Champions.” Keep these at home.

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