Off Magnolia Lane, the straight shadow that ends in the roundabout of the Augusta National Clubhouse, nothing is sure to arouse better feelings for Jon Rahm than access to Torrey Pines. There, in San Diego, he won the Farmers Insurance Open in 2017, the first professional tournament; There, last year, he lifted the US Open cup, the first major.
Rahm returns to Torrey Pines this Wednesday, in an exceptional start to the end of Saturday, due to the special programming that CBS has prepared for the weekend along with the NFL Conference finals and university basketball. “It is one of those weeks that you want to arrive and on top of that with good weather.”
Jon arrives after being fourteenth in La Quinta, at American Express. “I wasn’t very sharp on the swing,” he explained. “Nothing was good, but I managed to get into the top 15 and that gives me confidence because it shows that what I’m working on is on the right track. If I play poorly I make good laps…”.
San Diego is her favorite city in America. He loves Ken Sushi Workshop, Mendocino Farms sandwiches, Urban Plates… “I come here a lot. Here’s my swing coach, Dave Phillips, and Callaway HQ. I probably come every couple of months,” says the guy. Barrika, who in a very relaxed press conference reveals that his father practiced paragliding. “I don’t know how I had the nerve to run and jump off a cliff. Yooooo? No, no. I have no interest.”
“I remember at the US Open there were paragliders very close and I asked him, ‘will you dare now?’ And he told me, not now I’m a father. Also, his last landing was somewhat complicated. He broke his elbow,” he revealed. “And well, then he discovered golf and I think it was a safer thing for my heart,” he joked.
