It’s tough to recollect an Open match of any nation in Europe that has seen three gamers from that nation discover themselves on the Camino Actual on the final day to play for the victory. All this earlier than the version of the Open de Espana that simply ended with the victory of Angel Hidalgo.
On Sunday on the tee of the first of the Membership de Campo Villa de Madrid an distinctive trio honored “their” Open.
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Along with Hidalgo, Jon Rahm and David Puig gave life to a good looking problem that ended with a two-way playoff between Rahm and Hidalgo, who with two consecutive birdies received his first title on the DP World Tour, and what a title…
Angel Hidalgo, along with successful the house Open, defeated his idol. Though there are solely 4 years that separate them, Hidalgo stated that solely three years in the past he got here to the Open as a spectator, to cheer on Jon Rahm, as he has completed since he was a baby.
Throughout the press convention, the winner was fully honest and direct: “To be sincere, on the eighth tee, I believed David Puig would win the match by a minimum of eight strokes as a result of he was hitting the ball extremely, whereas Jon and I have been making lots of errors”.
However then issues modified. “I performed fairly nicely and fairly intelligently, I putted very nicely, and sure, I’m joyful” “And particularly for Jon, he’s a very powerful Spanish participant of the final 20 or 30 years”.
And Jon Rahm himself, though disenchanted for not having achieved the poker of victories within the house Open, can as a substitute smile whereas trying in the direction of the subsequent Ryder Cup. Together with his second place he obtained 555 legitimate factors for the Race to Dubai, which made him bounce to forty first place within the rating, with a achieve of 84 positions.
The following competitions, beginning with the Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship, will deliver additional enhancements. Rahm performed profitable school golf for Arizona State College. Throughout this time, he received 11 titles and led the World Beginner Golf Rating for a complete of 60 weeks.
After graduating, he turned knowledgeable golfer in 2016. Within the first yr of his skilled profession, he confirmed his good outcomes and performed his method as much as second place on the earth rankings. Rahm received the Dubai World Championship, the ultimate match of the European Tour, in 2017 and 2019, amongst others.
In July 2020, Jon Rahm reached the highest of the world golf rankings for the primary time by successful the Memorial. Rahm was the twenty fourth participant and the second Spaniard after Severiano Ballesteros to steer the world rankings. He misplaced his high place two weeks later to Justin Thomas, however regained it after the PGA Championships, solely to lose it once more two weeks later to Dustin Johnson.
After Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth, Rahm was the third participant to steer the world rankings amongst each amateurs and professionals.
