Rahm wishes to make history in the British Open: “I feel like I’m confident”

Jon Rahm He has been facing since Thursday that his ninth participation in the British Open and, though not managed to climb to the top of a podium for ten months, It can be seen in its best form since 2023 and “trust” to make history for Spain’s golf.

Spain’s Golfer already has open the US (2021) and an Augusta Masters (2023) in its showcase, something that has not yet achieved any other European player, and To win the 153 edition of the British Open, it would be the first Spanish to win three different ‘majors’ and the second to raise the Clarete Jug.

Severiano Ballesteros won three British.

“I always feel close and I trust that I’m there. Last week, especially on Sunday, very good. This is a very good golf round. This is, for many, my best twist on Valderrama, and playing it without ‘Bogeys’, without really at risk of making a mistake or a big mistake, besides the last hole. So I felt good, I was confident, “the Basque player said on Tuesday at a press conference at Royal Portrush, a ‘link’ (Coastal Golf Course) located nearly a hundred kilometers from Belfast, in Northern Ireland.

To 30, ‘The Lion of Barrika’ is convinced that he can be the best golp player in history And, in that purpose, he wants to win a third diverse, which will be “an incredible dream”, such as confessing last week to Valderrama on the eve of the Liv Andalucía tournament.

In 2023, he touched the glory while he was second, tied to other players, six blows to American Brian Harman, and last year he was seventh, in a contest that won his countryman Xander Schauffele.

“It’s not easy to win a ‘basic’, and never easily win an open“Rahm said to describe the size of the challenge.

After becoming second to Liv Andalucía, a single blow of the champion, Talor Gooch, who cut off five effects on the last day, the Basque player emphasized that he had not been comfortable with sticks from the Ryder Cup and the Masters of 2023.

Although he was second to the General of the Saudi Circuit, he has not won a title since September last year, in Chicago, although he was in the top ten, a stripe that was only interrupted by the end of June in Dallas.

In the Royal Portrush, he led in 2014 to the British Amateur and returned five years later as a professional in tomorrow, where he was in eleven positions.

Despite the uniqueness of playing with a ‘link’, RAHM keeps good memories in the Ireland fields -In the Ireland Open twice in 2017 and 2019-, which makes this year’s edition view.

“Ireland and Northern Ireland have been positive to me in my career. It was nice to play here, I’ve done it well in the past and I have a very good memory in Portstewart, so I hope this week has come, “said Biscay Golfist, who will participate with two other Spaniards, Sergio García and ángel Hidalgo.

In his opinion, the key to playing a good role in the last great season is to determine the effect that the breeze that blows in most holes will have every effect.

“The possibilities are endless when you face a punch. You will have all the options you can imagine. The most important thing is to understand how to control the ball and control the level of stubborn tesos against the air,” he said.

To emulate the works of Ballesteros in ‘British’ (1979, 1984 and 1988), he assumes that he can’t pretend to imitate his game: “I don’t think anyone can play in their style. Seve is the only one who can play in the style of others. His ability to do what he did in a golf ball is different from something else.”

Rahm has no doubt that the British Open will be the maximum, as it is “The Cradle of Golf” and the most root championship, celebrating its first edition in 1860. “And that’s what it makes,” he added before the media.