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Rahm plays at the pace of the best but can’t catch up with them

Rahm hits a tee shot in the Albany field. / afp

He improves his results in the Bahamas after a day with a bogey and five birdies, but he is far from the tournament lead

Jon Rahm faced a very difficult challenge today to climb to the top of the Hero World Challenge, the tournament organized by Tiger Woods in the Bahamas and which brings together a large part of the elite of the PGA Tour. With a disadvantage of five shots over the leader and reigning champion, the Norwegian Viktor Hovland, he started the third round for the Biscayan at the Albany Golf Club course. With 36 holes to go to close the competition, it could still be thought that it was feasible to catch up with the best of the first two days, but the surface of the course and the influence of the wind do not usually give truce to the laggards in this demanding scenario, grim in terms of scores. Five strokes is a lot in this New Providence Island wasteland.

In addition to the Scandinavian, Rahm had four golf aces ahead in the standings who shared a -4 score. Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young and Colin Morikawa are rivals in any matchup. As if that were not enough, the American Scheffler aspires to recover the world number one now in the hands of the Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy, in case he wins in the Bahamas. In short, too many pitfalls that forced Rahm to juggle if he wanted to rub shoulders with the hopefuls for victory tomorrow.

And the panorama darkened with a bogey already in the second hole (par 3), a stone where he had already stumbled the previous rounds. It was the only mistake of a day that later turned out to be clean until the end, with five birdies in the Biscayan’s bag. He made a profit on three par 5s and two 4s. Rahm will start the last day in the Bahamas with a total of -4. But it was not enough to hunt down a Viktor Hovland shot to repeat last year’s victory. Shortly after Rahm finished, the Norwegian led the tournament with -12, after presenting an extraordinary card of seven shots under par.

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