All the bookmakers say it. It is defended by a good number of specialists. There is no bigger favorite for victory this week in the Waste Management Phoenix Open than number 1 in the world. Jon Rahm is on everyone’s lips. He has a very good record in the tournament, it is very special for him and, moreover, he is at home. It is not the field where he usually trains, but he knows it well and he wants it.
With these credentials it was logical that the PGA Tour set up the champion Barrel in one of the star games on Thursday and Friday. So it has been. Zero surprise. It’s in the highlights, which means you’ll get full TV coverage for the first two days. The difference is that on Friday, when playing in the morning, it will be broadcast in PGA Tour Live.
His party companions in the first two days are Webb Simpson Y Rickie Fowler, two very good players, although the second has come down a bit in recent times, and with pedigree in this scenario. Not surprisingly, we talk about two former winners in Phoenix. Simpson won in 2020 in a playoff against Tony Finau and Fowler did the same a year earlier with a two-stroke advantage over Burning Grace. In case Rahm lacked a desire for victory…
The Spanish golfer will go out to play on Thursday at 12:24 local time in Scottsdale, eight more hours in mainland Spain, that is, at 8:24 p.m. Meanwhile, on Friday he will puncture the ball on the 10th tee to start his round at 7:59 in Arizona, 15:59 in Spain.
The other highlights of the tournament are Ancer, Woodland and Koepka; Hovland, Spieth, and Schauffele; McDowell, Molinari, and Kuchar; Matsuyama, Cantlay, and Justin Thomas and Luke List, Adam Scott, and Harold Varner III.
