Rahm recovered from two early bogeys to stay in contention at the Memorial

Jon Rahm He intends to spend another weekend fighting for important degrees on the PGA circuit. Barrika’s player is tied for seventh at the back of second round of the Memorial Tournament and will try to get into the title fight over the weekend.

With a -4 total, Rahm can be found in four strokes of the leadership held by the American justin. Jon stayed in that match despite a tough day finding the green, where he didn’t finish developing good birdie options. Yes, it showed up great reaction capacity after recovering from two initial bogeys which threatened to take away their chances of victory in the first bars of the afternoon.

Rahm responded with four birdies, despite the fact that he is not done getting comfortable on the field. Despite this, he was able to stop the bleeding on the first two holes, both a par four on 1, where he missed the green on his second shot and the setback chip, and a par four on 2, when his second shot went. to the left to then miss a compromised putt for par.

If there are no good placing positions on the next two holes, Rahm reacts on the par five of 5 after a big third shot from the fairway gave him a birdie. He repeated his sensations on the next hole, a par four, but strayed from his approach in an attempt on the par five of the 7th to come out with a par and stop his positive inertia.

Since then it has been shown inaccurate in the long game and he had no birdie options until the 10th, when he missed the putt. He had to play from medium distance in his quest for the flag on the following holes, until at 14 came a good option which he was unable to take advantage of.

Rahm needs a script twist and got it on the par five of 15. After going into the bunker, the man from Barrika pulled a great approach out of his hat to seal the birdie that sent him back to positive feelings. So, after saving even 17, Rahm closed with his best putt of the afternoon on the 18th, a round that started badly but kept him in contention for important positions.

Jason Suh is leading and Scheffler is struggling

In this way, Rahm is four shots behind leader Justin Suhwho won six hits in the field on the second day to put on -8. Suh has signed seven birdies and one bogeyon the par three of the 16th hole, to climb to the top of the table where, however, he has to watch many dangerous men.

The first of them is Hideki Matsuyama, second with -7 after an immaculate round of seven birdies that allowed him to make up for the first exchange of good feelings that he could not enjoy on the opening day. The Japanese are full this Friday and will be one of the great candidates for success at the weekend.

They shared third place at -6 patrick cantley (six birdies and one bogey) and david lipsky (six birdies and three bogeys), including the Korean yes woo kim fifth with -5 (five birdies and one bogey). Of course, in the back there are many important men in the match, because apart from Rahm, Rory McIlroy also finished -4 (six birdies and two bogeys), as well as others Rickie Fowler (an eagle, three birdies and a bogey), and Jordan Spieth he met -3 (three birdies and three bogeys).

Who is far from the classification is scottie scheffler. The world number 1 suffered to save the cut, which was overshadowed by the +3 he achieved. The American lived through a roller coaster in his second round with four birdies and five bogeys and will start the weekend from the back positions.

Classification after the second round (par 72)

1. Justin Suh (United States) 136 (70-66)
2. Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) 137 (72-65)
3. David Lipsky (United States) 138 (69-69)
3. Patrick Cantlay (United States) 138 (71-67)
5. Woo Kim (South Korea) 139 (71-68)
5. Mark Hubbard (United States) 139 (69-70)
7. Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) 140 (72-68)
7. Sepp Straka (Austria) 140 (71-69)
7. Patrick Rodgers (United States) 140 (70-70)
7. Jon Rahm (Spain) 140 (70-70)
7. Rickie Fowler (United States) 140 (72-68)
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62. Scottie Scheffler (United States) 147 (74-73)