Aaron Rai is first English US PGA winner since 1919 after stunning 68ft putt

When it came time to emerge from the shadows, to escape the logjam, Aaron Rai – a 31-year-old Englishman of Indian/Kenyan heritage – proved the most capable of all in capturing the 108th US PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club, brilliantly constructing a final round 65 for a winning total of nine-under-par 271.

He defeated two-time major winner Jon Rahm of Spain and American Alex Smalley by three strokes with American Justin Thomas, Germany's Matti Schmid and Sweden's Ludvig Aberg sharing fourth on 275.

Rai, 31, was born and raised in Wolverhampton by a Kenyan mother and an Indian father.

Americans had claimed this major each of the last 10 years.