The Royal St. George’s looks like a hip flask. The strategy of boats and play with the undulations of the terrain will be decisive from today in the least British scenario of all those who participate in the rotation of the Open, the great European, in the southeast of England, where the islands look to Belgium, where the weather is summery and promises an extraordinarily dry field.
On this tour which hosted the first edition outside of Scotland in 1894As a club that did not accept female members until 2015 – to be the first British in this field in normalcy – Jon Rahm is pursuing something extraordinary. Since Tiger Woods in his most decisive version scored the US Open and the British Open in 2000, sweeping Pebble Beach and St. Andrews, no one has linked the sequence that the Barrika golfer now seeks.
“I know Tiger did it, Ben Hogan … and I don’t know who else (Bobby Jones, Sarazen, Trevino and Watson, legends)”, he tells in front of the journalists, knowing that on this occasion the group of rivals expands because it is a field of certain generosity. Although it was the scene where Tiger in 2003 lost for the first time a ball in competition – something unusual because of the amount of public that he dragged -, although Jack Nicklaus signed an 83 in the first round of 1981, which was the worst round of his life, the Kent county setting is not a nightmare. That your emblem is a bunker, the one on hole 4, says it all.
This is corroborated by seeing the last two winners. Ben Curtis, the biggest surprise when he won the claret jug in 2003 being the 396th in the world, and Darren Clarke in 2011, when his chances of victory had been dismissed at 42 years of age.
“It will be incredible to be able to win the Open. No one after Seve has been able to do it, so giving Spain another would also be quite unique, “he said on Tuesday, no longer under the pressure of being in the urge to take a big one, after having done it in June in Torrey Pines.” There was a moment when I only heard Major, Major, Major, how if it was easy to win it “, exposes the world number 2.
Outside of the superstitions that dictate that Bryson DeChambeau or Jordan Spieth, paired in Branden Grace’s match as happened to Francesco Molinari (2018) and Shane Lowry (2019), should take the victory on Sunday, all eyes are on Rahm .
More defeats than successes
But the pressure, for sodas, and Jon takes off the focus remembering that in golf “You lose more than you win”, that Tiger, in his best year, that 200, did not reach 50 percent of victories, 10 titles in 22 tournaments, and that the only thing he promises is to adapt his game and the heads of the players. sticks to the ground, where, moreover, for the first time the public returned en masse in Europe. “I did not imagine that it would be in this tournament when it happened, but welcome.” The wisest hobby. The one who already sees in him the heir of his adopted son: Sevvy.
Along with Rahm, four other Spaniards participate in the tournament: Sergio Garca, Rafa Cabrera Bello, Jorge Campillo and Gonzalo Fernndez-Castao. All in search of the most important pitcher in the sport.
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