Jon Rahm, has recovered from his foot infection that forced him to retire before starting the US Opena month ago, will face a four-week tour de force starting this Friday, competing in four different events: LIV Golf in Valderrama (Cádiz), British Open in Royal Troon (Scotland), LIV Golf in Rocester (Kingdom) and Olympic tournament in Le Golf National (Versailles, Paris).
“If there is a week to win, it is this one. I am at home, in front of local public, with a lot of family and friends…”, said the Basque this Wednesday in the previous press conference in Valderrama, a field he likes, but not as much as its neighbor on the other side of the Mediterranean highway, RCG Sotogrande. In two of his three previous visits to what is considered the Augusta National of southern Europe (then he played in the month of October), Rahm missed the cut, even at LIV the cut does not exist.
Jon told reporters that he came “with childlike enthusiasm. And if there is a place to get the first victory and break the bad streak of 2024, this is it.”
Rahm also explained that he is very happy to be back in Spain and, although it does not depend on him, but when his third child, a girl, is born, “my plan is to play the Spanish Open (September 26). -29) and the Estrella Damm Andalucía Masters in Sotogrande (October 17-20). However, he explained that the natural deadlines are for the Spanish Open dates, or “a little later”, at most, so until the same month he could not confirm his presence in Andalusia again. “One or both of those tournaments may ‘bother’ me, or hopefully not,” he said.
Rahm emphasized that he has played “good enough” all year to win a tournament and pointed out that a victory at LIV Andalucía would be “very special to follow all the great champions who have won here” and in finally able to break. a drought of victories that lasted far too long.
The one from Barrika gave himself a grade “between a six and a seven. I can’t raise it because I haven’t won a tournament yet. The opposite is happening to me than last year: I started very well, but in the Second part of the season I started to lower the level I have confidence in myself, mentally there are always certain challenges, because there are changes in my life, and I am comfortable where I am and eager to compete ” he said. Then he added that “there is one day, one ‘swing’, something that changes everything and you start a good streak.”
His idol, Seve, is always in his memory
Rahm described Valderrama as a course that is “a challenge for everyone. The mental part is as important or more important than the rest of the game. Valderrama is very special because of what it means when one starts playing golf. Two friends of ” My parents were there in the 1997 Ryder Cup, they had never played, they came and that’s why my father’s friends started playing and he started playing for them, after seeing Seve, ” explained the Biscayan. “Then my father taught me golf,” and although the Cantabrian left us the victim of a brain tumor in 2011, “his legacy continues because of such things, because of my memory of him every time I come here.”
Finally, he was sincere in admitting that if he was given a choice between winning LIV Andalucía, next week’s British Championship or a medal at the Olympic Games, he would take the “silver jug”. He will be the second Spaniard to lift such an important trophy after the three pitchers of his idol Seve in 1979, 1984 and 1988.
Source: La Verdad
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