Jon Rahm followed a Rickie Fowler and a record-breaking Xander Schauffele!

The dance began, and how, at US Open of golf which was debated for the first time in its history when Los Angeles Country Cluba course located in the middle of the city and adjacent to Sunset Boulevard and Beverly Hills, and he did it with a perfect morning to play golf, cloudy, but without wind, where he did not know how to make the most of world no. 2 Jon Rahmchampion of this tournament in 2021 and of the Augusta Masters in April, but the Americans did Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele. The Basque had already predicted this the day before: things will happen. And that’s the first day, the first big news.

The main stars of this first day and certainly co-leaders at the end of the day were Fowler and Schauffle, the former with 10 birdies and 2 bogeys and the latter with 8 birdies, a new US Open record – so far there are six. players with 63: Johnnie Miller, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Weiskopf, Vijay Singh, Justin Thomas and Tommy Fleetwood– and to date the lowest lap in a Grand Slam is the South African’s 62 Brandon Grace in the third round of the 2017 British Open at Royal Birkdale. Brutal deployment by the Americans, with two long putts to make history with 61 shots.

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Final card of 69 shots for the Basque, who was very erratic from the tee, missing many fairways, but that got oil in the short game, especially the putt, although he left clear options in birdie at the end of the round to finish. higher in ranking. The ones he put in were to save good pairs. Jon, honestly, never found the rhythm, but he knew how to cool his nerves and not break. Two birdies and two bogeys for his first nine holes, that of the second part of the tour in Los Angeles, from 10 to 18.

In his second nine, from 1 to 9, he did not take advantage of the first three on the card to scratch a blow on the field, but instead his party mates, the Norwegian. Victor Hovlandwith a spectacular eagle-2 on the 2nd, and a birdie on the 3rd, and Olympic gold in Tokyo xander schauffele, as we say with a clean round of 8 birdies without failure. It was embroidered by the American, who since 2017 has always been top ten in his country’s Open, except in 2022 where he finished 14th.

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Fowler and Schauffele are California natives looking for the first major title of their careers. Fowler hit 10 of 13 fairways and 15 of 18 greens. And more importantly, he led the classification with 4.73 strokes won with the putt.

Jon continued to be erratic from the tee, visiting places that even the Biscayan himself did not expect, although on hole 5, after falling with impunity on a fairway, he played an amazing second shot which stretched between the trees the ball landed on. on the green and nearly holed out for birdie. ‘Putted’ for eagle on the 8th, par 5, closing this nine second with a partial 34. A pick and shovel card that if the weekend was the worst, accept it. Once he was tentatively 11th the entire afternoon session would be over.

While, for example, his great rival this year in the fight for world number 1, scottie scheffler, he recovered well from a poor start with a bogey at 1 to score five birdies and put himself at -4, hunting for the leaders. He finally finished with a 67 after a bogey on 18 with three putts.

Rahm had just two chances to regain the lead in OGWR. One was his US Open win on Sunday and Scheffler never finished second himself. The second alternative involves a second solo place for the Basque and for the Texas man to finish fifteenth solo or worse in the Los Angeles tour. It should be noted that Rahm has been number 1 for 52 weeks, a full year in different sections.

The other two Spaniards who played in the morning shift, the Catalan Pablo Larrazabal and the man from Castellón Sergio Garcia, finished with two rounds of +1 and even. Pablo went under par with three holes to go but the RCG El Prat professional, who earned a card, made bogeys on 16 and 17 to post a 71 shot. Sergio also went from more to less and back to more, signing a 70 card.

To also highlight the good beginning of a ‘reborn’ Bryson DeChambeauUS Open champion in 2020, with 67 strokes (-3).

Ranking (players in the clubhouse)

Par 70

62 Rickie Fowler (USA)

Xander Schauffele (USA)

67 Scottie Scheffler (USA)

Bryson DeChambeau (USA)

Woo Kim (cds)

…

69 Jon Rahm (Span)

Viktor Hovland (Nor)

70 Sergio Garcia (Span)

71 Pablo Larrazábal (Span)