For the 13th hole, the ‘Rahmists’ were lamenting Thursday, second day of the tournament in La Jolla, as the NFL has dragged the outcome of the Farmers to Saturday. On the north course of Torrey Pines, the muleto, a significantly shorter course than the south, the scene of Jon Rahm’s first victory on the PGA Tour (Farmers Insurance 2017) and his first major, the 2021 US Open, he had choked on the new megastar.
In those moments, the golfer from Barrika He was walking alongside on a cold and windy day, outside the cut and without emitting very positive signals. He had started with two birdies, the second with a chip on the 11th hole, his second of his, which had lost effect with as many bogeys in the first round.
But Rahm is designed for combat, for fighting, so as not to spot the impossible. There were five holes left, a margin to start two birdies with which to avoid the guillotine and the world number 3 according to the classification, the best of the moment according to reasoning, nothing was spared. On the par 5 of hole 5, the fourteenth, she hit a 6-iron from about 180 meters to put it within three meters and holed out a fabulous eagle on the last round of the Epic Speed.
It was the fuse for a long hour of resounding game, in which he hit three more birdies and could not with the fourth at the final par 5. “It was a great round of golf,” said the Spanish golfer without hesitation. “It was the part of the course where you could make more birdies, but the game didn’t differ much from the other four previous holes, for example. I just knew how to read the wind direction well. Maybe on hole 6 I was a little more courageous in looking for a birdie”.
It was a full blown survival exercise. Something that distinguishes you from others. He signed 67 shots to leave the best card of the day on the North Course, together with the Argentine Tano Goya, while Sam Ryder, 68 on the South, cemented his lead with 12 shots under par, with an advantage of three over the second and nine over the second. Basque. “There is a fact that reflects how well I played: on a hard day I missed three streets and one of them by a foot. In the sum of the other two it would not exceed two meters. That allowed me to make a great turn. I gave it very good off the tee,” Rahm added.
