“I go four strokes away. It is not much. You have to cut one per day.” Jon Rahm was very clear about his mission this week in the Tour Championship that started this Thursday in Atlanta and has begun to comply strictly with it since the beginning of the last stop of the PGA, a face to face among the 30 best of the season.
The Biscayan subtracted two more impacts than the man who led the East Lake Golf Club, the American Patrick Cantlay. This started with -10, due to the format established years ago in this final of the circuit to reward the most regular and added a -3 to -13 in total. Rahmbo went up to five under par and was already -6 from the start. It is only two of the Californian. First blow. Drums of war are beating in Georgia.
And that did not have a heavenly day either. A first takeoff attempt, with three birdies in seven holes, stopped short with bogeys at seven and eight. Despite perfect weather and wind conditions for golf, East Lake was biting and did not tolerate very low cards.
Rahmbo even got mad at his approach of the tenth, when the cry of a child interrupted his routine and missed the green. There was a risk of a short circuit, but he chased away the ghosts with four birdies without failure in the nine seconds. This Friday, second day of the hunt, already in the stellar game with the possibility of squeezing Cantlay, who came from winning the BMW last week and is very solid. Also approached, although at a slower pace, the daring Norwegian Hovland, author of a great -4 for -7, or Harris English, who chained a hole in one and two birdies between 15 and 17 to go up to -8.
Eleven of him is Sergio garcia, who left one of the hits of the day, holed from the street for an eagle in the one. Then came two bogeys, at 2 and 6, and as many birdies, at 12 and 18 in an immaculate second half, to reach -2. He lost another inch of ground to the head, but won another competitive round in his last attempt to make the European team for Ryder.
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