Golf can be cruel in many ways, and one of the most painful scenes in the sport occurs when the golfer misses a putt incomprehensibly. It is even more striking when it comes to the No. 1 in the world. Jon Rahm had to experience an atypical situation for his hierarchy at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, a very unusual episode on the PGA Tour, in the context of a successful career for Spanish in recent years.
On the par 3 of the 7, the native of Barrika missed a putt less than 25 centimeters from the hole. And it is clear that the monarch of the ranking was left with the worst feeling. The video shows how the native of Barrika he was paralyzed in front of his mistake and then checks the face of his putt oddly, to finish that hole with a bogey. A mistake that meant an undesirable statistic: it was the Shortest missed putt of the entire 2021-22 seasonwhile also generating another surprising piece of data, which indicated that his odds of hitting that hit were 99.96%.
“I wish I could give you all the excuses in the world, but no, it’s as simple as… it just didn’t feel right in my hands, and I tried to stop the stick, and I didn’t. I didn’t stop, I tried, but I couldn’t. I do not know. It was very strange. the grip I was a little sweaty”, Rahm explained to the media, while he himself still did not understand this technical error that he had to experience, closer to a blooper. Beyond his mistake, Rahm has already 40 weeks as number one of the world golf ranking.
Rahm’s start in the tournament that takes place in Orlando, Florida, was discreet: he achieved par for the court (72), to place himself a little above the middle of the leaderboard, in 51st place after the first 18 holes. Who started with everything was another of the great stars of the PGA Tour: Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy, who opened with 65 strokes (-7).
