MBeyond what the fans think, the bookmakers have it very clear. They have ruled that the favorite to win the 2021 US Open at Torrey Pines is Jon Rahm (10-1).
Golf, especially after Tiger’s years of dominance, has once again become a truly difficult-to-predict sport. Phil Mickelson, which did not count for almost anyone in the PGA Championship, he took his sixth ‘major’. Unknown to the American public as Garrick Higgo -although well known in the Canary Islands-, he has just won the Palmetto, in his second participation in the PGA Tour.
But the bookmakers have singled out Rahm for several well-justified reasons. First of all, because the world’s number three displayed during The Memorial what was perhaps the best game of his career, until he had to abandon for the positive in Covid-19.
But the main data that will have been taken into account is that Barrika’s accumulates 51 under par at Torrey Pines (South) since 2017, year in which the Farmers took in that field, his first professional victory. Jon is five strokes better than any other player in TP in that time frame.. ‘Rahmbo’, also has the best statistics in strokes won on this tour with all players who have played at least ten rounds there, with 2.60.
Basque also occupies the third place in hitting average in the ‘majors’ over the past four seasons (minimum 20 rounds played), just behind Koepka and Dustin Johnson. Although sport is far from being an exact science, there are reasons to trust it.
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