Jon Rahm went back where he left off. When less than two weeks ago they announced that I had tested positive, just when I was leading With a huge advantage over the Jack Nicklaus tournament, the Memorial Tournament, the Basque was playing his best golf of the season. He commanded that Saturday, after the third day, with 18 under par, an income so comfortable that the title was decided the next day at -13. The coronavirus isolated Rahm, who was training at home with a simulator pending negative tests, and jeopardized his participation in the third big of the season, the US Open that started this Thursday in Torrey Pines. Although what hurt Rahm the most, more than the title and the check that disappeared at the Memorial, was not being able to be present when his parents, Angela and Edorta, were finally able to travel to the United States to meet their grandson Kepa . Now, recovered and healthy, the Barrika golfer has picked up where they left off and on the first day of the US Open he signed -2, two of the leaders Henley and Oosthuizen, and with another Spaniard, Rafa Cabrera Bello, with – 3, and Sergio García in the par on the field.
Morning fog delayed the day at Torrey Pines, San Diego, and 36 players were unable to finish the round. Rahm finished by the hair, who in this field shows that he is at home. Ambitious, it started with a birdie in the 10 and confidence made him go for it all. With three birdies and three bogeys, until the seventh hole he did not write a par and then, with more controlled play, he discounted two new strokes, the same score as other aspirants such as Koepka, Matsuyama and Schauffele. Ahead of them appears a superb Rafa Cabrera, who completed an exercise in temper in a tournament that often unhinges golfers. No bogey for the first time in his career at a US Open for the canary, who came out alive from ambushes in the rough and also drew a beautiful eagle on the 18th to shine your card.
Cabrera shines in the positions of honor alongside an old acquaintance, Francesco Molinari, the Italian who has once again trusted in Pello Iguaran como shopping cart. The head is half the game in golf and, after several stumbles, Molinari has returned to the source of his greatest successes.
Complete US Open classification.
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