Jon Rahm he remains bent on breaking the course of history. That of Spanish golf and his own. With his spectacular win in the American Express (a tournament that he already won in 2018) brings his total of professional successes to seventeen, nine of them on the PGA Tour. And this figure is especially important for him, since it was the one that Seve Ballesteros managed to add to his idolized throughout his American career and the interest that the Basque puts in promptly surpassing all the Cantabrian records is well known.
But, apart from the statistical value of his victory in La Quinta, it is worth noting the fact that he has achieved it in his second tournament of the season and in a row, something he had also achieved at the end of last season with his victories in Madrid and Dubai. As if this were not enough, his figures are adorned with a impressive balance of four titles in his last six official championships, with second and fourth places as luxury complements.
This prolonged state of form has dragged him on since last September, when he returned to compete in Europe after the nbirth of his second son. More established in his daily life, both sportingly and personally, the Biscayan has become a relentless winning machine, as he has shown this week in the Californian desert. He completely dominated the three fields of the tournament rotation and, despite the fact that yesterday he did not have his best day on the mats, he made it clear to his teammates that I was not going to allow them to take the photo with the trophy.
Started marking the territory with two ‘birdies’ before his more direct Davis Thomson. And although others were getting closer to the head, Jon’s solidity allowed him to always stay in the lead, sometimes solo and other times tied. A great value par on 14 had him punching out for the first time and that intimidation weighed on the Alabama on the next hole. There Rahm once again acquired an advantage (-27) and would not relinquish the lead until the end.
