Good start for Jon Rahm in reclaiming the world number 1

good start of Jon Rahm70 shot, two under par, at Memorial Tournament which is played on Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio and one of those PGA Tour ‘designated’ tournaments, together 20 million dollars in prizes. Rahm started very solidly and in the provisional top 10, two strokes behind the leader at home, the British Matt Wallace (68).

Playing the morning shift, the man from Barrika teed off on the 10th hole, and covered his first nine holes with par, with a birdie and a bogey (on the 18th).

He started the second round with another bogey, which he quickly recovered with two birdies while the fourth shot to win the course of the day came on the second par 5 of the first part of the course, when he played his third shot from the bunker. and nearly pierced for the eagle. He had a very clear option for the final birdie of the day on the 9th but didn’t want the ball to go in.

Rahm (winner of this event in 2020), world number 2 and FedEx Cup leader, finished better than his great rival this year and number 1, Scottie Scheffler (74, +2, with 4 bogeys and two birdies)while the other top 10 ranks, such as Rory McIlroy either patrick cantley (champion in 2021) has afternoon hours. Victor Hovland finished with 71 (-1)

However, this week the Basque has options to regain the leadership of the world ranking that he gave after the PGA to a Scottie Scheffler whose last 14 results on the PGA Tour were stunning. Certainly the victory at the 2020 Memorial gave Jon the number 1 for the first time in his career.

Therefore, recovering number 1 is not an easy task. The numbers produced by the world ranking guru on Twitter, Nosferatu, say that Jon has only two outcomes to return to the top of the rankings: win or finish second alone. Also, once this is achieved, it depends on what Scheffler will do.