With 17 holes played on Friday, Jon Rahm marched in a sad position 42 in the LIV of Korea. Then he took out the wand and packed … From twenty meters that allowed him to finish the first day to the field, seven blows to Bryson Dechambeau, the best on Saturday and the best in an outcome in which the Californian suffered to fasten his first win of the course. Rahm, who on the second day was the best in the field with -6, deflated on his last day of competition before the PGA Championship (May 15-18) and ended in a seventh position with a -8 card. Although for him it does not serve as comfort, this allows him to continue his stratospheric streak in the LIV, where in his 19 tournaments he has always ended in the top ten.
Only a legendary return could put the Biscayan in the fight for the title in the field that bears the name of Jack Nicklaus. The company of the ‘Golden Bear’, the player with more Majors in History (18), has more than 400 fields distributed throughout the world. He did not occur because Rahm’s game was missing that spark of yesteryear. Signing another place among the highest steps of a tournament would be considered a great result for most mortals, not for a player who needs to win like breathing air. You will have to continue waiting to break a drought that extends for eight months, since the Chicago Liv conquered in August to get the champion ring.
Rahm began his last turn in Incheon from Hole 3, where he signed a first reduction that could be an Eagle. However, in torque 3 of the fifth challenge he committed a crew that resulted in the first bogey. Barrika’s, initially with light and dark, would link two birdies in holes 7 and 8 to look at the Top-5 of the table. He would scratch another blow in par 5 of 15, where he almost went to the water. The ball boat smiled at him because he went to the bunker and from the sand he gave a thicken that then made the putt embocae from a meter and a half. Then he would give up a Bogey in Hole 1 to go down to his final -8.
Rahm looks at the second big appointment of the year, the PGA Championship. The second major of the year is played from May 15 to 18, within two weeks, in Quail Hollow (Charlotte, North Carolina), just over two hours by road from Augusta. There he will seek to reunite with himself to feel competitive again in the important tournaments. In the past Masters ended fourteenth even though he suffered from the beautiful to pass the cut.
The general squeezes
The leader of the competition, Joaquín Niemann, completed a gray performance one week after his triumph in Mexico, the third of the year. The Chilean was twenty -first -4 result and only one point for the eleven of Rahm, practically tied on the second step with Dechambeau, which achieves the 40 -point and scale loot from the fifth position to unseat Sergio García from the podium. The one with Borriol completes another horrible week, put 42, and is again below the points zone (Top-24) for the second time.
The positive face in the rest of the Spaniards is the twentieth position of Luis Masaveu, tied with Niemann but a great result for the young Madrid. On the edge of the points, just one blow, David Puig stays, position 26 with -3. The teams are imposed by the Dechambeau crushers with -35 (nine shocks with the Smash) and an overwhelming domain thanks to the winner’s contribution in addition to Charles Howell (second with -17, two blows from his partner). Rahm Legion XIII came from imposing in Mexico and has been fifth with -13. The firballs of the other three Spaniards in Liza have been tenth with -5.
