Jon Rahm, the favorite to start golf this Thursday

For one week every four years, golf aspires to be just another sport without putting aside its essence. Naa Olympic Games No money is distributed to the champions, but sports excellence is recognized and, above all, the most personal stories are respected. Due to an environment where the most important thing is not the statistics but the life experiences, being on the green is like going back to the rookie days, where we played thinking only about the victory and the trophy, not the awards. “Being an Olympian is the greatest honor any athlete can have,” he said. Jon Rahm from Paris. This Thursday the Olympic golf tournament starts at The National (August 1 to 4), which in 2018 went from being ‘Garden of France‘ to become the ‘Fortress of Europe’ with the Ryder organization winning the Old Continent.

“This year I came with a extra motivation“, assured the 29-year-old Basque, number a world until July 2020, winner of US Open 2021 and of Masters 2023. “Lose myself Tokyo 2020 This is something that took me a long time to overcome, it was very difficult. I am in Paris with a desire to know that I have lost one opportunity very good and who knows how many more we have,” he added. Rahm arrives after competing for four weeks in a row in which he lifted last week’s LIV Golf UK and placed seventh in British of the Throne. Among the favorites to win Olympic gold are defending champions, Xander Schauffelewho won this year two majors, the PGA and the British. Big names like Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg, Wyndham Clark, Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland, Tommy Fleetwood and Hideki Matsuyama.

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This field is located at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines40 kilometers south of Paris, features the nastiest finishing holes ever seen in Ryder history, with haunting names such as ‘The Judge’ (15th hole), ‘The Call’ (16th), ‘The Verdict’ (17th) and ‘The Crowd’ (18). “It brings back great memories of Ryder. This is a field where it must be done everything is perfect and it is fine for me. They ask for holes and here you can not hide in any way. “If everything goes well, I will have my options,” said the Barrika player, who will compete alongside the Catalan. David Puigthe only two Spanish representatives.

The circuit of L’Albatros of Le Golf National It is the most complex and competitive, a field specifically designed to look for spectacle and where audience interaction will be key, with more than 60,000 spectators per session. It is considered by many to be the best golf course in continental Europe, courtesy of Valderrama.