Jon Rahm is reigning over professional golf once again.
Masters, but he donned his Green Jacket and waited by scoring in the gloaming of a brisk but sunny Sunday to welcome his fellow Spaniard Jon Rahm to the club.
“I was too young to appreciate who I was shaking hands with,” he said of Ballesteros. “Obviously I grew up on Tiger and Phil , respecting and admiring both players for what they’ve done. But my idol, it’s always been Seve. I try to emulate what he inspired on the golf course.” “I just kept thinking to myself, ‘Well, I miss, I miss, I miss, I make.’ Move on to the next,” Rahm said. “If you’re going to make a double or four-putt or anything, it might as well be the first hole, 71 holes to make it up.”
The LIV-PGA Tour subplot could not be ignored and speaking at last week’s LIV event in Orlando, Graeme McDowell, who joined the upstart league last year, summed up what was at stake. Rahm applied early pressure with a birdie at 3, scrambled for par at six and when he holed the putt the patrons exploded with delight as he took sole possession of the lead.
There was one last dicey moment at 18 when Rahm’s tee shot sailed left and he hit a provisional but found his ball and ripped a 4-iron inside 100 yards.
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