In which your tournament could be considered -until one day we see a tournament in Vizcaya, which will happen-, the Phoenix Open, Jon Rahm went home after the first day with another gesture. After a great day from tee to green, brilliant, in noisy and wild Scottsdale, a few miles from the residence where he lives with Kellie and the little one, the golfer from Barrika discharged all the adrenaline with the putt of the last hole, which was the fourth birdie of the day and 67 strokes, without errors.
That ball that rolled into the hole from five meters He erased from his face the disappointment he had after seeing how he had missed at least four putts from less than three meters for birdie (10, 13, 16 and 17), an area that this year is costing him, in addition to not taking advantage of any of the three par 5s of the Arizona course. “Well, actually I only consider misses on the 10th and the three putts on the 13th. On the 17th (par 4 where he took the green in one shot), he shot from 80 feet and couldn’t take any chances. I’ve seen a lot of drama there. I would love to shoot 10 under par every day, but it doesn’t always happen,” he said as a balance of “a solid round.”
The Spaniard, who feels a great desire to win this tournament Being next to his house, he claimed his game. “The putts were rolling well. There were a lot of them that came close and didn’t go in and any other day they might go in. So I did what I had to do, I hit most of those putts around ten feet for pars and birdies, which always saves you a round. So I’m not going to get too picky,” he told reporters.
At the last 9 holes he had arrived with three under par and there he had stayed until the last blow of the day. Raising her arms was the least she could do in the face of so little loot on the greens. Patrick Cantlay and Justin Thomas had reached the same numbers in a much more complicated way than Rahm had done, who could not do more at the start of the tournament that the Americans consider more fun among the PGA Tour regulars.
The world number 1, who this week will maintain the leadership, he had taken 16 greens, but with the putter he had left a lot of shrapnel. He had finished seventh, three shots behind one of the recent sensations, Sahith Theegala, a golfer with scoliosis, who was struck at night on the 8th green (his seventeenth), where he had a par-over-5 putt. meters, complicated. The leader in the clubhouse was the Korean KH Lee with 65 shots.
