Unlike most professional golfers, Rai does not have an agent – something he insists will not change despite rising to 15th in the world after his victory.<\/p>\n
He has been sponsored and mentored by British golf instruction company Me and My Golf for years and is happy to look after his own affairs.<\/p>\n
Like his efficient and tidy golf, he keeps his arrangements simple.<\/p>\n
“It was always a conscious effort since the early days of turning professional to try and keep things in a close circle,” said Rai. “Through the years and different experiences, that’s something that has stayed true for me.<\/p>\n
“I’ve never felt the need to reach out and change those things. I have help in dealing with certain things, but not through a particular agent or manager.”<\/p>\n
Rai’s family have been integral to his career, with much written this week about the sacrifice of his parents in pursuing the best for their son.<\/p>\n
Winning the US PGA Championship bolstered Rai’s bank balance by $3.7m (\u00a32.8m) but, while he is keen to give back to his support network, he has no plans to make any lavish purchases.<\/p>\n
“That’s something I haven’t really thought of,” he said. “I have a really nice house that I absolutely love – I imported my car from the UK and I wouldn’t change that for anything.<\/p>\n
“I would like to get a couple of my family members something but I wanted to be thoughtful rather than just buy something that is worth X amount.<\/p>\n
“I’m definitely going to sit with that and think about it a little bit more.”<\/p>\n
While the prize money may be secure, Rai revealed he is yet to receive the two-and-a-half-stone Wanamaker Trophy because it has “a little bit of damage”.<\/p>\n
The winner of the US PGA Championship looks after the original for a year and is given a replica to keep – neither of which has yet arrived.<\/p>\n
“I’m not sure what exactly happened,” Rai said, laughing. “There’s just a little bit of damage towards the top of the trophy, which they wanted to fix before it went anywhere.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlike most professional golfers, Rai does not have an agent – something he insists will not change despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-596889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}