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Rahm leads the Spanish representation in the PGA Championship

Jon Rahm from Biscay, Sergio García from Castellón and Pablo Larrazábal and Adri Arnaus from Barcelona are this weekend the Spanish representatives in the PGA Championshipsecond of the four golf ‘Majors’ of 2022 and which is played from Thursday to Sunday at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma (United States).

Rahm arrives in Tulsa as number 2 in the world and with the intention of adding his second major, after winning last year at the US Open. He is the only player who can take the status of world number one from Scottie Scheffler. To do this he needs to win the tournament and for the American to be tied for fifth with two other players or finish in a worse position.

The player from Barrika returns to competition in this major after returning to winning ways on May 1 at the Mexico Open at Vidanta, which placed him seventh in the PGA Tour FedEx Cup.

This year the Biscayan has played ten tournaments, with one victory (that of Mexico), a second place in the Sentry Tournament of Champions and a third in the Farmers Insurance Open as best results. His triumph at Vidanta, three weeks ago, has recharged the Basque golfer’s batteries.

Sergio García, number 47 in the world ranking, has participated this year in eight championships, with a twelfth place in the Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic, of the DP World Tour, as the best result. The man from Castellón goes to Tulsa in search of his second big one, after the 2017 Masters.


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Pablo Larrazábal earned the right to play this major, the sixteenth of his career and the first since he was in both the British Open and the PGA in 2017. He only made the cut in three editions of the British Open (2008, 2011 and 2012) and in one of the PGA (2011). His best result in a ‘major’ was thirtieth place in the ‘British’ in 2011.

The 39-year-old from Barcelona will play the PGA Championship for the eighth time, in which he only reached the weekend once, in 2011 and with a forty-fifth place finish. After winning the ISPS Handa and getting into 68th place in the world he got the right to play in Tulsa, and also in the British Open.

Adri Arnaus, also from Barcelona, ​​earned the right to play the PGA after winning the Catalunya Championship. It will be his third ‘big’, after the US Open (58th) and the British Open (court) of 2019.

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