At times the stage became tricky, with Jon Rahm out of court in the Farmers Insurance Open from San Diego (California, USA) with nine holes to go to conclude the second round this Thursday. But the Basque returned to the state of grace that he has exhibited in his two previous appearances so far in 2023 and, with a magnificent sequence from the fifth to the eighth hole, he finished at -5 for -4 and slipped into the good side of the cut. . Failing it in his fetish field, Torrey Pines, after the beginning of the cathedral year that he has starred in, with the number one ranking at stake, certainly did not enter the pools.
He will play Friday and Saturday and will continue to oppose to unseat Rory McIlroy because he woke up halfway through. He had just buried his two birdies at the start with a bogey at 12 (he started at 10) and another at 18. At that point he was at +1, the result with which he closed a nondescript Wednesday (the appointment is unusually held from Wednesday to Saturday to leave Sunday off for the NFL playoffs), and the cut was projected at par.
He needed a boost that didn’t come until the fifth segment, but boy did he. She brought out the eagle on the penultimate par 5 of the day and took off. Consecutive birdies fell to sixth, seventh and eighth. He had to find himself with a song in his teeth. He failed to subtract at 9, another par 5. Even so, the maneuver is excellent. He places him 14th, eight shots from the head, for the American Sam Ryder, with -4 for -12 in another great exercise for the weather conditions that the southwest coast of California presented this Thursday.
“It has been a windy day. I have done what I had to do, put myself back in a good position. The last few months have been amazing. Lots of time with my family and great golf. Even when he was at par he was playing very well. I have been very close to making more putts. I hit a shot at 5, I made the eagle and it gave me the confidence I needed”, he analyzed the one from Barrika before the NBC microphones after concluding the round that puts him back in the ointment. He is still in winning rank and number one.
