The photo that made Rahm cry after winning the Augusta Masters

Next year will be very different for Rahm at Augusta. He will arrive as current champion, he will act as host at the champions’ dinner – he has already announced that he will bet on Basque gastronomy to entertain the guests – and he will also change in the changing room reserved for professionals who have ever worn the jacket green. He was able to see it on victory Sunday and realized that it was possible that his box office would be set up next to Seve’s. “I have made the request, let’s see what happens.”

And it is that the connection of the Biscayan with the Cantabrian is evident despite representing two very different generations. The one from Pedreña was the pioneer and thanks to him golf began to become popular in Spain in the 80s. Rahm is his ideal heir and is part of a litter clearly influenced by Tiger Woods that has professionalized the discipline to the maximum until they became total athletes. On Monday, April 10, when the Biscayan woke up in the house that served as his home during the Masters, he saw a photomontage on the cover of ‘Golf Digest’, in which he was dating Ballesteros. “I looked at it once and I was moved. Then I saw her again, I looked at Kelley (his wife of his) and I started crying. Tears filled her face. All the emotions fell on me at that moment », he admitted in his appearance.

His family –Kelley and his children Kepa and Eneko– are essential to him because they almost always accompany him on trips and that allows him to establish a break between work and life at home. “It allows me to disconnect from golf and that helps me,” he said. This 2023 is to frame, with four victories in just four months. He wants the British Open. “This year I have achieved things that many thought I could not achieve,” he claimed.