Jon Rahm, from the green jacket to the LIV Golf earthquake

What goes from January 2023 to November of the same year, so Jon Rahm is concerned, it is like a real roller coaster not to mention a real earthquake in the golf world.

Between January and April there were four victories, the last of them, the most fought for, worked for, valued, appreciated, exciting, felt…in other words, the ‘biggest’: the August Mastershis second ‘major’, and first green jacket for the Basque, 40 years after the second to his admired and beloved Seve Ballesteros, to whom he dedicated the victory while looking out into the Georgia sky in the closing afternoon at Augusta National.

Previously, he won an exhibition Tournament of Champions in Hawaiihe Amex in the California desert and the Genesis of the Tiger Woods Foundation in Los Angeles. Pure spectacle and a prelude to what could be a season. But, after a careful passage PGA (Brooks Koepka winwho came 2nd in the Masters) and the Open USA (Wyndham Clark was able to defeat Rory McIlroy), fame on the greens was not resumed by Jon until mid-July with 63 strokes on day three at the British Open at Hoylake and a tied 2nd place finish, some distance from the left-handed winning ‘hunter’ Brian Harman.

Rahm unsuccessfully defended his lead in the FedEx Cup and even the first Spanish to take it, yielding at the end in a plethora of Victor Hovland A few months later it was his last participation here when he was suspended from membership on the PGA Tour.

The one from Barrika is a mainstay of the European team in vigorous Rome Ryder Cupstanding as the leader of the group led by Luke Donald with his friend Rory McIlroy. Rahm fought the last great duel in World no. 1 Scottie Scheffler in the first individual of the day on Sunday, which ended in a draw.

Since then, the back-and-forth, rumors, and negotiations began in the most complete secrecy at LIV Golf after spending a year and a half making sure he only played for history, tradition, the Grand Slams, and for they have sown. and grew legends in his days such as Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Seve Ballesteros and Tiger Woods Besides others.

With a contract on the table for more than 500 million dollars, Rahm finally fell into the hands of the billionaire in early December. Arab Super League. The picture shaking hands and signing the contract Greg Norman, CEO of LIV, surprised many. Jon chose his security (and his family, of course) for life with the mortar the Arabs gave him instead of continuing to fight to become the greatest golfer of all time.

A few days later, he was suspended from membership in the PGA Tour, which he fiercely defended, and as a great asset Biscayan became the main gauge of pressure for LIV Golf and the traditional Circuits (PGA Tour, European Tour. ..) to sign peace and calm has returned to the turbulent waters of the golf world.

At the women’s level, there is the Solheim Cup also has Spanish fame: headquarters in Andalusia and outstanding performance of our Carlota Cigandawho achieved the decisive point that allowed the European team to cling to Suzanne Pettersen. Navarrese finished Solheim undefeated and birdied the 18th green.

All this while in the rumor mill this 2023 is the name of PGA Catalunya, in Caldes de Malavella (Girona), as host of the 2031 Ryder Cup.