On a second day in which Austin seemed more like an English city than a Texan, Jon Rahm tamed the winds on the banks of the Colorado and forcefully knocked down the American Keith Mitchell (4&3) on Thursday in the dying Mundial Match Play. This Friday, when he will face Billy Horschel, another Yankee, champion two years ago, will go to the Country Club of the southern town with his options to access the playoffs intact.
Horschel’s triumph (3&2) over a remastered Rickie Fowler, who is beginning to look like the star he was and helped him in his search for the round of 16 on Wednesday he submitted Rahmbo. Now the three are with a win, and Billy rules because the first day he tied with Mitchell. As it is, Jon needs a victory against him in the last game and Fowler not to win to qualify directly. If both he and the Californian win, they will have to play a tiebreaker.
This time Rahm did not capsize on the greens like he did on Wednesday, when he squandered the rent he had acquired on the first seven holes with three-kicks. He himself recognized that the difference marked her in that field. Helped by two bogeys in a row from Mitchell, a player who has been a PGA champion (Honda Classic, 2019) but who suffers from significant baggage in this format, which the León de Barrika does have, took off on a scoreboard that He would already dominate until the end of the pulse.
The lead oscillated between one and two holes until it ran amok with a shot at the flag at par 3 on the 11th. He then eagled on the par-5 of 12 despite missing the fairway and birdied the 13 as well, even though he wouldn’t have needed it because Mitchell, by then already desperate, sent his ball to Colorado in an attempt for take the green in one shot. The North American would cut back thanks to a bogey from Rahm at 14, but he faced an almost impossible situation and ended up giving up a hole later.
“I have given myself opportunities. Yesterday I lost an important advantage, today (for this thursday) I have not made so many mistakes. In the nine seconds I putts and I have a comfortable advantage, ”she analyzed. “There are not going to be much more electric duels than between Billy (Horschel) and me ”, he pointed out of his stake this Friday. A day in which the American Will Zalatoris, for now the surprise of the tournament, will compete already eliminated, two games out of two lost despite being the seed of his group and seventh favorite of the tournament, the South African Bezuidenhout and the Austrian Straka.
