One of the requests of Jon Rahm after wearing the Masters Green Jacket in 2023 will share the box office in the exclusive locker room of the champions of National Augusta with the Spanish champions of their time, incl Seve Ballesteros (1980 and 1983), and who currently shares the same space with South African Charl Schwartzel; or with Txema Olazábal (1994 and 1999) and Sergio García (2017)they are together.
“I wouldn’t mind if there were three of us,” he said then. But Augusta National, more than him, did not want to satisfy his champion aspirations and so Rahm shared the box office with Art Wall, winner of the Masters in 1959, and Bob Goalby, champion in 1968, an edition marked of the Argentine’s historic mistake, Roberto de Vicenzo, tied with Goalby but was disqualified after signing a card with the wrong result. Wall and Goalby died, so the Barrika man would have it all to himself.
As an anecdote, according to the portal ‘tengolf.es’, there is a strange connection between Wall and Rahm at Augusta. And in 1959, the year of his victory, the first Spaniard in history debuted at the Masters: Ángel Miguel. Wall, author of 45 holes in one in his career, won in 1959 after making five birdies in the last six holes to overtake Arnold Palmer, who was defending the title.
Source: La Verdad
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