Jon Rahm stepped into the unknown on Sunday, increasingly strange experience in Spanish sport that continues to be driven by the accelerated shock wave since the concession of the Barcelona Olympic Games.
Rahm’s superb putts on the 17th and 18th that gave him victory at the 2021 US Open
The conquest of the US Open men’s golf It is another notch for a centenary specialty in Spain, but it did not rise to the altars until 1979 with the figure of Severiano Ballesteros, when at the Royal Lytham he won the British Open, the first of the three claret jugs that the ill-fated golfer added in his carrer. The 1984 and 1988 editions were the other two.
It’s the ninth big -five green jackets of the Augusta Masters They add between Seve (1980 and 1983), José María Olazábal (1994 and 1999) and Sergio García (2017) – with the only blank box of the PGA Championship, the tournament that closed the season and which is now played in May.
Seve Ballesteros’ parking heist at the 1979 British Open
Only four countries, the United States, Great Britain, South Africa and Australia, they have conquered the big four. And that is where the merit of the square that Spanish golf will seek in Southern Hill in May 2022 and successive years lies. Spain has 1,569 golf professionals, which increases its presence among the world nobility with 29,000 Americans and 7,500 British. Only the South African phenomenon, with half the number of golfers of any category than Spain, destroys more statistics.
The blow behind Sergio’s tree
Sergio García was the one who was closest to winning the PGA in August 1999, in Medinah, when the famous blow from the tree and the scissor jump in the fairway of hole 16. He was second behind Tiger Woods, who beat him by one stroke, after forcing the megastar not to fail in both last holes.
Twenty years of the most famous hit by Sergio García
Rahm, with an amazing sequence this year in the big -fifth, in the Masters and eighth, in the PGA-, he has imitated Seve’s 1983 course, when the Cantabrian won the green jacket, he was fourth in the US Open -he led the final round- and sixth in the British Open (in addition to twenty-seventh in the PGA). Ballesteros was also 26 years old as Barrika’s golfer.
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