After winning the Masters on Sunday and attending to the media, Jon Rahm asked Augusta National to visit the champions’ locker room with his father and his wife, which from that moment on he already had the right to use and will be able to do so as long as he lives and visit the club Once inside the magical place -the rest of the players invited to the Masters use another changing room-, he had an express request to the rectors of Augusta.
Since they now have to assign him a locker room in that locker room, while he was reviewing the names of all the champions that appear on the doors of each locker, Rahm asked to share his with one of the three Spaniards who also have their names engraved on a plaque on the door, as revealed in an interview with Movistar Golf. «I have asked them to put me in Seve’s box office or in Olazabal and Sergio’s and that we be three. Seve shares with Schwartzel, against whom I have nothing, but surely they can put him with Immelman or another South African and leave me with Seve, “he said, smiling and excited.
We will have to see what decision the top managers of Augusta National make now and if they accept Rahm’s request. The most normal thing is that they do. The answer could come while Rahm is playing these days at the RBC Heritage, the PGA tournament that is played in South Carolina and is accessed by invitation. Only four Europeans have won the Heritage Classic since it started in 1969: Nick Faldo (1984), Bernhard Langer (1985), Carl Pettersson (2012) and Graeme McDowell (2013).
The top 30 FedExCup players meet at the tournament. There are 143 golfers playing after the retirement of Rory McIlroy. Jordan Spieth, fourth in the recent Augusta Masters, defends the title he achieved last year with much uncertainty after beating Patrick Cantlay in the tiebreaker playoff.
