This week’s stop on the PGA Tour takes golfers to the second major champions of 2026 – the PGA Championship – at suburban Philadelphia’s Aronimink Golf Club.
The tournament was last contested on this Donald Ross-designed course in 1962. Yep, 64 years ago some of the world’s best descended upon this course to battle for the Wanamaker Trophy. The winner that day was a then 26-year-old fella from South Africa named Gary Player who’s seen in this week’s Fan Teaser playing kissy face with his well-earned trophy.
Player finished a shot ahead of Bob Goalby three shots clear of George Bayer and Jack Nicklaus.
The PGA Championship was the third of Player’s nine major’s won during his storied career. Three years later he achieved the Career Grand Slam when he won the U.S. Open at Bellerive Country Club in suburban St. Louis, MO. He won one more PGA Championship 10 years later at Oakland Hills Country Club in suburban Detroit.
Just to review, The Fan Teaser was the creation of former Ann Arbor News Sports Editor Geoff Larcom. Longtime friend and fellow Ann Arbor News alum, Pat Schutte, took it to heights previously unknown. We aim to keep it alive here at The Sports Fan Project. The cropped photo and the accompanying clue give you an idea as to who or what the image is of. We invite you to use the Comment option to take a crack at solving the Teaser and, if you’re so inclined, participate in some good-spirited banter with your fellow sports fans. The Fan Teaser will appear each Friday morning with the reveal coming to you Sunday.