Jon Rahm will require a glorious weekend, like one three years ago in Olympia Fields CC. , south of Chicago, if you want to have any choice in final playoff at East Lake (Atlanta next week) of FedEx Cup who now leads with 148 points more scottie scheffler, author this Friday of an insipid card of 69 for 135 (-5), tied for sixth. Rahm, with four bogeys and no birdies, went 74 shots for 142 (+2) in 36th place.
Very frustrating morning and afternoon for the world number 3 and Masters champion in April because nothing came out for Jon, and nothing. He is now 10 hits away from clubhouse leader, Chris Kirkwho repeated 66 for 132 (-8).
In favorable conditions, with sun and no wind, Rahm slowly dissolved like sugar in coffee. He lowers his arms while eating holes. Lost in a sea of mistakes, he doesn’t know how to find the right direction. Bogeys on the 7th, on the 10th, on the 13th and 14th completely dropped even from the temperate zone of the classification. The drive and the 3-wood off the tee, above all, were clubs that brought Biscayan down the path of bitterness all day, powerless in the face of so much adversity.
The contrast between the two cards (his and his partner Scheffler’s) was incredible in the first 9 holes, although the numbers 1 and 3 in the world agreed on one thing: disappointment. Scheffler because he was playing like a shot, taking the fairways and greens and leaving some clear birdie options, he only got one out and it was the farthest ball from the hole. He went through 9 with a 34 (-1), with a single birdie and all par.
Rahm, for his part, took only three fairways, missed several greens, but knew how to recover well, even though the first bogey of the day fell on hole 7. A stroke he was able to amend on th -9, with a good start and a good second hit to the flag, at a meter and a half, but the ball made a ‘tie’ in the hole, incredible. Total, 36 (+1), with bogey and all par. And the difference between two strokes from two strokes becomes four (-5 and -1).
The same trend followed at the beginning of the second 9 holes. Bogey with three putts from Rahm at 10, ball hanging on the side of the hole at 11 for birdie and despair with a relatively easy shot to the green at 12. Then bogeys at 13 and 14.. .
The height of bad luck, bad luck or whatever you want to call it is 15, par 5. The ball goes wrong in the high rough of the bunker. From rough to rough and I shoot because it’s my turn, and he still has to make a four-meter putt to save the ‘5’. The one who cried in grief and anger. But golf being what it is, Scheffler missed his birdie putt again and left the green with the same result as Jon.
The Texan, who found holes very small this Friday, therefore continued not to miss the opportunities to put more land between his rival and friend and to get closer to the leader at home, Chris Kirk. Scheffler leads Rahm by seven shots with 36 holes to play.
It is clear that this is not a comfortable, calm, or easy lap for the man from Barrika, quite the opposite. And on his face he paid for the three-quarters of the shots he got on this par 70 that in 2023 led him to win his first FedEx playoff. Jon left at least a glimmer of hope by playing a convincing and serious last three holes inviting some recovery to wash his face in the tournament on Saturday and Sunday.
Source: La Verdad
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