Jon Rahm’s six challenges after winning the Augusta Masters

SA Jon RahmWhile he calls himself “a golf junkie”, he loves challenges. A great lover of the history and tradition of traditional circuits and tournaments, the Basque in the short/medium term will try to win the two Grand Slams he is missing, the PGA and the British OpenHe too CPT (considered the fifth ‘major’), the Olympic gold at the Games of Paris’24, to be number one in the FedEx Cup and, perhaps in the longer term, overcome the 50 achievements (it was said soon) by his idol Seve Ballesteros on the European Tour.

PGA Championship

This is the pending subject of Spanish golf, the only ‘big’ thing our Navy lacks. Jon has contested it six times to date, with two top 10s and one missed cut to his credit. The closest he came was in 2018, when he finished tied for 4th. In one month (May 18-21) it will be played at Oak Hill CC, in Rochester (New York).

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British tomorrow

This is the jewel in the crown for many players. Spanish golf has lifted three Silver Jugs, all three from the ill-fated Seve Ballesteros, in 1979, 1984 and 1988. The oldest Grand Slam, with more history, tradition and tradition, this July (13-16) is will return to Royal Liverpool , in Hoylake (England). Jon has played it six times, tied for 3rd in 2021, at Royal St.George’s, in Sandwich (England), as the best result. He was close to victory, which was eventually taken by Collin Morikawa.

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The Players

It is considered the fifth ‘big’ and only one Spaniard has won it in its entire history, Sergio García (2008). Jon had a thorn in his side withdrawing due to illness this year before the start of the second day. That, with the victory of Scottie Scheffler, which returned him to the world number 1 at the expense of the Basque, the event in Ponte Vedra Beach also marked him and highlighted. Rahm has played six TPCs at Sawgrass with a tied 9th-best finish in 2021.

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Olympic gold

It still hurts Jon not to be able to defend the Spanish pavilion at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games when he qualified for it, but Covid-19 has prevented him from the possibility of participating in some Olympic Games. He will have a new chance at Paris’2024. For golf, the Olympic Games. maybe they were another contest, but for Jon it certainly wasn’t. Justin Rose was gold in Rio and Xander Schauffele in Tokyo.

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No. 1 of the FedEx Cup

This is, colloquially speaking, the American PGA Tour Order of Merit. Jon has been close on several occasions and perhaps this year, after his impressive start to the season, with four victories and one of them the Masters, the time has come for it too, as it happened in European Tour (DP). World Tour), leader of the American circuit. Now it goes by points and not by dollars earned. No Spanish yet.

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Seve’s 50 wins

Rahm has focused almost exclusively on the American tour, but his forays have been on the DP World Tour (formerly the European Tour). So far he has 10 victories: 3 World Cups in Dubai, 3 Spanish Opens and 2 Irish Opens, including the US Open and the Masters. Seve scored a whopping 50, a record that no one has come close to. Without the WGC that counts and there is no surplus enough in Europe, the challenge is huge but in the next decade who knows what the Basque is capable of.