Jon Rahm has spoken after the second round of US Open and he has been very happy with the situation in which he is in the tournament. He recognizes that the laps of today and yesterday are like night and day, but he stays with how well he has hit the ball in the last five holes. The one of Barrel He talks about karma regarding the Memorial and reveals a blow that he started training a year ago and that is already part of his team. Here are their full statements …
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Many differences between the first two rounds … «I feel very confident. Today’s round and yesterday’s have been very different. Yesterday I hit him very well, I took a lot of streets and only made a couple of mistakes that will cost me more bogeys than I would have liked. Today has been the opposite. It was hard for me to get into the rhythm. I didn’t take my second fairway until hole 13, I think, so I had to survive. The key to the return was the sequence of putts on holes 10, 11 and 12. I made three very good pairs in a row when things could have gotten very ugly. Hopefully I can continue hitting the ball like in the last four holes of the day.
Jon Rahm goes down to the sand (literally)
A matter of speed in the detour … “Errors look worse from the outside than what actually happened. The balls were coming out of the line, but I couldn’t get them to open what I am looking for when I hit the fade. In my case the problem is that I don’t spin fast enough. From the 13th hole I started hitting the driver harder and the dynamics began to change. The start of the 12th had already been very good, but I don’t know why the wind blew her into the bunker. The drives on 13, 15, 17 and 18 were perfect. They were exactly as I had thought and envisioned them. Many times the key is to focus more on visualizing the shot than on technique. I had started to think too much about swing and that didn’t help me.
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The karma of good people … “I believe in karma in the sense that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad, but we talk about things that are beyond our control. What happened at Memorial is beyond my control, I can only try to master what I do at all times: follow my routine, stay hydrated and think about the appropriate things on the field. I have done a great job and I hope there is good karma in the future waiting for me, this week or another later.
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A new hit in the arsenal … «Last year I started working on a new shot with Dave Philips al draw. I hit the fade very well, I feel very comfortable, but there are times when it was very good for me to hit a draw and I didn’t have it. We have been working for a year and I am becoming more and more comfortable. I don’t make much change to paste like this. I put the ball a little more forward and point to the right so that the face comes closed. The good thing about that shot is that in the worst case I get a straight ball and it is not a disaster either. The driver from 13 has been a draw that has come out very straight for me. It is not easy, but I am improving and I am noticing it this week ».
El US Open de 2008 y Tiger Woods… “Golf has changed a lot since 2008. I was 13 years old. Young people today are of a generation that grew up watching Tiger and we dream of doing the things he did and playing golf like he did. I think that’s why there is so much level in this generation, because the benchmark was Tiger. He changed the golf narrative so that we were seen as athletes, we are bigger and stronger. Technology has also advanced, but above all we are stronger and bigger. With that scenario, either you play your best game and another will win. Tournaments with or without Tiger are very different, it shows in the atmosphere, in the energy and when it is to win, much more. The impact it had on golf is brutal, few athletes have had it on their sport. We owe him a lot.
Rafa’s interesting reflection on why the US Open is good for him
Some frustration on holes 13 and 14 … «I never escape from that question. I have not lost my temper on the pitch at any time. It is true that on a couple of occasions I have been angered by a blow here or there, but because I thought I was hitting better shots than I was getting. The most frustrating moment was at 13. I hit a good start and I had plenty of club to go, wood 5, and I didn’t even hit him with everything and missed it to a bad place. That bogey was the most frustrating thing of the day. But hey, I’ve never been in danger of making a high number, I’m two strokes away and that’s nothing in a US Open. “
