Jon Rahm started the year with a stumble in Dubai

The year 2025 did not start off on the right foot for Jon Rahm. The Barrika player has been eliminated this Friday at the Hero Dubai Desert Classicevent of DP World Tour where he started his new campaign. Rahm had a second round to forget, going five over parand didn’t make the cut.

With a +2 overall, Rahm shared eighty-seventh place and he doesn’t have any option to fight for a cut set at par on the course. Yes they got through it Alfredo García-Heredia (-4), Nacho Elvira (-4), Iván Cantero (also -4), Ángel Hidalgo (-2) and the present representative of the United Arab Emirates Adrian Otaegui (pair). Left, in addition to Rahm, Jorge Campillo (+3), Manuel Elvira (+5), Alejandro del Rey (+6) and Pablo Larrazábal (+10).

The Scotsman Ewen Ferguson is the solo leader with -12 after signing a round of an eagle (par five on the 18th hole) and five birdies. Ferguson has had two consecutive rounds with great reliability and without a single bogey, a situation that puts him one stroke ahead of the Australian Daniel Hillier (an eagle and also five birdies on the day). Sharing third place at -8 are Englishmen Laurie Canter (one eagle, four birdies and two bogeys) and Tyrrell Hatton (eight birdies and one bogey), South African Shaun Norris (one eagle, four birdies and one bogey) and the Australian Jason Scrivener (three birdies).

He had no choice but to approach the front positions. Rahm. Despite his good -3 on the opening day, the native of Barrika experienced a complicated second round where He reached 77 strokes, five over par. Because of this, he had no chance to fight for the pass and showed a card of two birdies, three bogeys and two double-bogeys.

Rahm saw how The day went wrong in the beginning. An exit behind the trees on the par four 1st hole compromised his second shot and, arriving at the green, he missed the putt for par. The long game problem continued on the following holes, failing to take advantage of a long option for birdie on the par five 3rd and saving par with a big chip from off the green on the 5th hole But, when it It looked like that shot and subsequent birdie on the 6th hole might wake him up, a trip to the 8th hole costing him his second bogey of the day. Despite an immediate birdie on the 9th hole, Rahm couldn’t get off the ground.

He completed the first half of his lap with the pair of the field, a priori with room to move forward, but everything went wrong in the second half of the lap. The option to take advantage of the par five 10th (the day before he made eagle) went into the bunker and forced him to save the couple.

Although, to no avail, the worst began on the 12th: a double bogey on this par four after a fairway start forced him to drop with a penalty, par on the 13th (par five) and the path with no gains until the 16th It was a par four where a drive out of the fairway and a short second shot condemned him to bogey again, just like the day before. Affected by the thought, Rahm closed out his round with another double bogey on the 18th hole after going into the water at the beginning.

The Spanish presence at the weekend

In this way, Rahm closed his first date of the year with bad luck. A priori, His calendar will continue with LIV, which starts in Riyadh from February 6 to 8. There are five tournaments planned on this circuit before the Augusta Masters.

Those who will be trying to get positions in Dubai at the weekend are the other Spaniards. Ivan Cantero (four birdies and two bogeys), Nacho Elvira (seven birdies, one bogey and one double-bogey) and Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (seven birdies and three bogeys) shares twenty-fourth place with -4.

Rory McIlroy It’s far from a fight for the tournament, but there are options to regain positions. He was thirty-three with -3 after three birdies and two bogeys in the second round. Meanwhile, back to Spanish, Angel Hidalgo he was forty-fourth at -2 after a very irregular round with one eagle, four birdies and five bogeys and Adrian Otaeguinow an Emirati, made par after four birdies and three bogeys in the second round.

They are also away on weekends. Jorge Campillo (+3, bye with three birdies and three bogeys), Manuel Elvira (+5, three birdies, seven bogeys and one double bogey), Alexander the King (+6, one eagle, four birdies, five bogeys and two double-bogeys in his bye) o Pablo Larrazabal (+10, three bogeys and a fatal quadruple-bogey on the par four 9th hole).

Classification after the second round (par 72)

1. Ewen Ferguson (Scotland) 132 (67-65)
2. Daniel Hillier (New Zealand) 133 (68-65)
3. Shaun Norris (South Africa) 136 (69-67)
3. Tyrrell Hatton (England) 136 (71-65)
3. Jason Scrivener (Australia) 136 (67-69)
3. Laurie Canter (England) 136 (68-68)
7. Thorbjorn Olesen (Denmark) 137 (70-67)
7. Ricardo Gouveia (Portugal) 137 (65-72)
7. Robin Williams (South Africa) 137 (68-69)
7. Min Woo Lee (Australia) 137 (71-66)
7. Rasmus Hojgaard (Denmark) 137 (71-67)
…
24. Alfredo García-Heredia (Spain) 140 (72-68)
24. Nacho Elvira (Spain) 140 (72-68)
24. Ivan Cantero (Spain) 140 (70-70)
44. Ángel Hidalgo (Spain) 142 (71-71)
Out of the cut
87. Jon Rahm (Spain) 147 (69-77)
96. Jorge Campillo (Spain) 147 (75-72)
112. Manuel Elvira (Spain) 149 (71-78)
118. Alejandro del Rey (Spain) 150 (75-75)
125. Pablo Larrazábal (Spain) 154 (75-79)