There are eight more holes, Jon Rahm It smells like Olympic gold National Golf. Four strokes ahead after a superb golf lesson. Nothing could go wrong…and yet, it did. An unfortunate second part of the Basque tour condemned him to a joint fifth place in the final, with a score of 70, one below par, the worst of the day among the men who competed for medals.
Ahead, when the ball is really burning, the world number one, the American Scottie Scheffler, gave a progressive recital to end his superlative gold with the Olympic title, closed with an equal lap record on the Parisian course, no less than 62 strokes (-9). Amazing.
Scheffler thus added his seventh victory in a year in which he won the Augusta Masters and five more PGA Tour titles. A true, undisputed number one, who did his homework and took advantage of Rahm’s late collapse and British nerves. Tommy Fleetwood, the only one who could challenge him for the gold, in the last two holes. After Scheffler and Fleetwood, the Japanese Hideki Matsuyama He took the bronze (he was 4th at Tokyo 2020), 2 behind the champion.
Rahm came in with playoff options for bronze on the final hole, but instead of the birdie he needed, he got a bogey–5, as in the 17th, tied Rory McIlroy four from Scheffler. The penalty for a fatal sequence between the 11th and 14th (bogey, bogey, par and especially the double bogey-7 that sank him), which he could not take anymore.
I am hoping for a complete and joyful revenge for the Tokyo Games, which Rahm missed at the last minute due to a positive Covid test, and a sporting revenge which will answer those who think – there are not a few – that there are he. joined the LIV circuit in Leaving the PGA Tour brought out his game. And the truth seemed, until the 10th hole, that this was his day.
The birdie streak began on the third, a par 5, and continued on the 4th when The Basque fell with two more birdies on the par 4s of 6 and 7. The first was impressive, with a putt of cinema. There he was in command alone as Schauffele’s third shot was on the edge of the hole, and Rahm got it together on the next, making another putt for birdie, -4 all the way to a golden start.
The Spaniard closed the first nine holes with another show, birdie, his fifth of the day, on the par 5, while Matsuyama emerged as a rival, who was second in three. On 10, sixth birdie of the afternoon and four ahead, amazing.
On the 11th his ‘Waterloo’ began: Rahm notches the first bogey on his card, missing a five-foot putt. Fleetwood and Matsuyama, racking up birdies, got to within two, narrowing the classification. Jon is accumulating problems. In the bunker on his way out of the 12th and without reaching the green on the second shot, the putt to avoid a second bogey in a row missed by inches. The Basque’s gain came to naught, as Tommy Fleetwood was still on a roll and with two birdies he recovered four strokes in two holes to move into the co-leadership.
The tie continued in pars for two before the fatal 14th hole for him, a par 5 that was fatal: he had to make a strategy and putt to avoid adding another bogey and losing the lead, but in fourth shot the ball came back, off the green, and the subsequent short putt also missed, condemning him to double bogey. Slipping the lead for the first time all day, Fleetwood caught up and a Scheffler who, after many ups and downs, ended up launching. And Rahm, suddenly, went from being first to being fifth.
Scheffler set his sights on gold with a superb putt for birdie on 17 and closed out a brutal round with a par on 18, nine under, to put all the pressure on Fleetwood, who failed to bogey the penultimate .
Rahm had yet to have his last word for the bronze, and on the 16th he made a super-class putt for his first birdie in six holes that put him back in the medal zone, tied for third with Matsuyama. The Japanese defended the position with pars on the final two holes, and Rahm took a chance on the 17th with a three-meter putt to stay. He fell short, made another bogey and was forced to make a final birdie to compete in a playoff for bronze. And that’s after leading by 4 strokes.
Fleetwood was under pressure with a bogey on 17 that confirmed Scheffler’s gold, and Rahm bowed out with a bogey for the final fifth place, as Matsuyama, bronze, fell behind.
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Source: La Verdad
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