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Jon Rahm runs his fingers through his hair on Sunday evening after finishing the PGA championship tied for the eight.
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Charlotte, NC – No ORDER That was a 73. It couldn’t have been! It was very good. Very wild. A lot of way turning-the-crowd-back-scottie that that round is higher than a 68… or not?
Well, somewhere in the extension of the Quail Hollow end, you saw Jon Rahm’s eyes turn from steel to staid and its power fades on straight balls. You’ve seen his filming of Callaway leave at 16, and then put in the water at 17, and then got into clutter at 18. It doesn’t get a mathematical whip. You’ve seen him cover his mouth and rolled his confusion in the air and slammed with his driver’s head on the ground once, twice, three TIMES As he left the 18th Tee. You even heard a spectator shout “snap it!” And when you looked up, Rahm had his hands on each end of the club, daring the axis to give up and break down.
So, in a way, the round that almost stole the PGA championship rose up to two-on 73, seven shots back of the largest thorn on the side of Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, which is two years younger and now one richer big.
Sometimes managers’ tables tell you everything. This will lie to us for years. Because while Davis Riley (T2) was bowing to risks in risks and while Bryson Dechambeau himself won a large top ball, and while Harris English won a load of money himself ($ 1.41 million), it was just Rahmi who breathed in this tournament. He seemed to breathe in his life as a golf player, too.
“Lord, it’s been a while since I got a lot of fun in a golf course,” he said afterwards. These words will not look great for a Liv executive, but they have everything to do with the big championship golf. Type that can roll inheritance as a coin. Rahm started the day five back and opened with seven solid, sleepy pars. But while Scheffler was slowly supported with a lost left, Rahm Zogu 8, 10 and 11 in a 45-minute fury. Suddenly, they were connected.
This week was an exercise on the limit, no? Most of the weekend was lost on the topic of driver’s heads. The clubs are designed with the thinnest metal that – when hit a thousand times – creates a springboard effect that the sport has considered illegal. Why? Because it can take you another yard or two. If you can promise to go straight, pro players would like an extra yard or two. But the closer you get, the more chaotic they come back. JUST Ask Rory Mcilroy.
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This week the borders were in dirt. If your golf ball grabbed enough of the sticky things from the rain -lined roads in Quail Hollow, you have left in the whims of NATURAL. Dirt on the left side of the ball, will surely go right. The right side will surely go left. Players do whatever they can to avoid chaotic boundaries, building robotic oscillations to hit the perfect blow with the perfect choice of the club while judging the wind or resting or rhythm perfectly. But sometimes, the boundaries hold your destiny. Rahm will have to admit that the borders betrayed it twice on Sunday.
The first came to the crawling blow he hit at 13, which caught so much by the cup that it could have fallen if the barometric pressure in Charlotte was lower. The second came only a moment later, when his 7th mobile drawing ball – where the green angles mostly left – mysteriously started in front of and in the bunker. He failed to get up and down for birds. Rahm almost kneeling on both of those shots. Each would send a audible message to Scheffler, just a few back holes, who later admitted that he would never work so hard to win a golf tour. That was due to Rahm.
For that sequence to end the par-par, and that par-5 15 squeeze away from him to another, well, Rahm himself said, “If there is sometimes a time when he felt like he was slipping to some extent, it was not the 14th and 15th birds; this was definitely wrong, before, obviously, ending.”
Yes, ending poorly. Only he actually ended differently than most people saw to see.
Rahm violated the hill from 18, made his way to the note room, but first caught a prolonged, emotional hug from his wife, Kelley. When he came out of signing for him 73, the man who hit his driver on the ground just 37 minutes ago was a stoic and impressive raw. He was asked to explain what happened in the stretch – were the bad shakes, the nerves, the bad luck? – And he just sat in the chair and smiled:
“If there is ever someone sitting here, who tells you the nerves were not part of it, they lie clearly. It is the main thing we do as a professional sport: checking what goes through your mind.”
Rahm called out his mistakes. He was not sure exactly why it happened, and so fast. He withdrew and then apologized for his long answers, limiting the number of questions we could reach. “I’m trying to process things now,” he said. He said he was ashamed of the way he was over.
“But I just have to overcome it, overcome myself,” he said. “It’s not the end of the world. It’s not like I’m a doctor or a first answer, where someone – if they have a bad day, really bad things happen.
“I will overcome it. I will continue. Again, there are much more positive than negative to think about this week.”
As always, this is an ongoing man. Learn to calm down as soon as possible. It is worth remembering that Rahm fantasizes a student of the game himself. He forced his way in the case of Practice with Phil Mickelson and begged Augusta National Intel by Tiger Woods. He has lost the calculation of how many old masters narrates that he has looked at YouTube, and reminded us of this week for the open championship mini-packed with information produced by R&A.
Crashing those videos in his free time, Rahm says he pockets wrong tips from Woods and Padraig Harrington and, as he explained on Tuesday, from Jack Nicklaus’s favorite memories to win at Muirfield. When he made these diplomas look easy, Nicklaus liked to determine a target outcome in the reach that, if he could match him, he would have a great chance to win.
Rahm on Tuesday: “I thought it was quite interesting.”
Rahm on Sunday: Let’s try it.
He understood under the first five holes he would do it. This is where everyone went to the abyss, and quickly. A good good 73 he is likely to study for a while. We would be awake to join him. There is another exam next month, one which he acted four years ago.
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