Jon Rahm played over par today for the first time since last Thursday Open Championship. It is said soon. Three months later the golfer from Barrel loses a battle against the field. It was in the third round of Acciona Open of Spain. A bad day. It’s golf. Even Number One can be allowed. When it hurts the most, at home, when he was fighting for victory. He has made 72 strokes on the Negro tour of the Country Club Villa from Madrid and has lost footing in the tournament standings. He has fallen to ninth place six strokes from Rafa Cabrera Bello. It is very far…
The million dollar question that floated at sundown in Madrid was whether Jon had not only lost the battle but also the war. The reality is that you are going to need an epic comeback to have a chance of winning the tournament. Their accounts go through reaching at least twenty under par and from there we will see what the other players can do. To get to twenty under par he would need a 62 stroke lap, exactly what he did Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez the first day of the tournament. That is, it is very complicated, obvious, but not impossible.
It goes without saying that in order to come back and give himself a chance to win Rahm will have to play this Sunday at Thursday’s level. It should improve the feelings of today. To do this, it has already got down to work. Do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today. As soon as he met the media after handing in his card, Jon went straight to the practice field. Sheet metal and painting session. It has been short but very fruitful. He’s barely been hitting balls for twenty minutes. This is the time it took to put the pieces back together. “I have not failed one,” he commented at the end of this mini workshop session just before signing autographs for all the children who were on the practice field watching their idol. All in order.
It is unusual for Jon to finish a day of competitive golf on the driving range. There are many golfers who always do it as a routine, either to search for something or to relax, but Jon is not one of those, he prefers to go to the hotel, rest and prepare a good dinner. “When he goes to the practice field after playing a round, things have gone bad or very bad,” he confessed to Ten Golf a person who knows the Biscayan player perfectly.
Jon would leave the Country Club driving range with a smile and convinced that he can go back. «I already did it in Ireland and curiously with the same leader, Rafa Cabrera Bello. I came within six strokes and ended up winning the tournament. It is difficult, but of course I will try. I will have to play very well and do very little. There is no other. Today I did not play well, but it is also true that nothing has come of it. Everything that could go wrong has gone even worse ”, he confessed. A good example was hole 5. He missed the start to the right, but it wasn’t a very bad shot. That ball went off the fairway for just two meters, but it bounced off a hill to the right and shot out until it ended up in a bush. It ended in a double bogey. Although for Jon the key of the day has been the bogeys on holes 11 and 12. “At that time I was playing well and that has slowed me down a lot,” he explained.
The first stone of that comeback was laid this afternoon on the driving range. Of course, there is still a lot of work to complete the building.
