India, May 20 -- There are so many things to admire about Aaron Rai, the newly crowned PGA Championship winner, but everyone you speak to, are going to point out two things about him - how hard he works on his game, and how humble he is despite all his success.

Everyone has their favourite story of Rai's work ethic. I, too, have one and I never tire of repeating it.

It's 2018 and he is playing his first full season on the DP World Tour. I had travelled to Muscat to attend the inaugural NBO Oman Open. At the time, I was writing for Sport360, a 36-page sports-only daily newspaper that was published in Dubai. My job was to fill up four pages with golf stories. That's a lot of words to type out and I'd usually be the last one to leave the m...