Jon Rahm (76) was condemned to eight bogeys at Bay Hill

A card with eight bogeys, surely something unheard of for him, was condemned Jon Rahm on the third day of Bay Hill’s Arnold Palmer Invitational. After starting Thursday as one shot, rising to the solo lead with 65 shots, the world number 1 was not known in his last two rounds by signing a 76 that separated him from the battle for victory.

Rahm, 28, has a total of 217 shots (+1) and will face the final day this Sunday, 10 shots behind the leader, kurt kitayama (207). Victor Hovland (208), scottie scheffler (208), Tyrrell Hatton (209), Rory McIlroy (210) or Justin Thomas (211) are the other remaining golfers who are well placed for the final match.

The Basque player, champion of US Open’2021started well thanks to two consecutive birdies on holes 4 and 5 that moved him closer to the lead, but one of the worst streaks of his career, five consecutive bogeys from the 7th to the 11th hole, which plunged him badly into the classification and turned his journey into an ordeal.

Rahm then made another three misses, barely neutralized by two more birdies for a final card of 76 shots, with eight bogeys and four birdies ending his impressive sequence of results: Jon arrives at Bay Hill after reclaiming No. 1 in his 10th PGA title, achieved on February 19 at The Genesis Invitational.

attached to Sentry Tournament of Champions and American Expressit was his third title in his last five PGA tournaments and fifth in nine rounds around the world since his sensational 2022 climax with wins in Spanish Open and the DP World Tour Championshipp.

In all others he also finished in the top-10, another clear sample of his sensational moment of form and unrivaled approach to the first. grand slam of the season, the Augustan Masters (April 6-9). Bay Hill appears temporarily as a climbing accident that returned him to the world throne.