AUGUSTA, Ga. — Sometimes at the Masters, you have to take inspiration from those who have gone before you. Especially if those before you have screwed up as epically as you just did.
Walking off the first green, where he'd four-putted his way into a double bogey, Jon Rahm had one thought run through his mind: Seve Ballesteros' famous quote at the 1986 Masters after a four-jack of his own. Asked how he could have four-putted, Ballesteros replied,"I miss the putt, I miss the putt, I miss the putt, I make the putt," Ballesteros said.
"If you can somehow make it through the first 6 1/2 holes, and what I mean is putting the ball in the fairway on 7 and you're around even par, I think it's a pretty good start," Rahm said after his round. "It's easy to make bogeys. It's not easy to make birdies. So if you can get through that, you have a short iron into 7, 8, 9 to maybe make some birdies and maybe get the round going. I was able to do that and took advantage of it the rest of the day.
"If you're going to make a double-bogey," he said,"might as well do it on the first hole of the tournament when you have plenty of holes to make it up."
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