Jon Rahm, present quantity 3 on the planet and a reference in Spanish golf, will search to emulate the legendary Severiano Ballesteros within the variety of wins achieved after securing a brand new presence on the ACCIONA Open de España offered by Madrid, which is being held at Membership de Campo Villa of Madrid between the sixth and the ninth of October.
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The quantity 3 – associated on this case to the trio of titles gained by the Cantabrian genius on the Spanish Open in 1981, 1985 and 1995 – has since turn into the primary goal of the Basque golfer, who gained for his half within the 2018 and 2019 editions.
First categorized in 2018 on the Nationwide Golf Heart, the most effective a yr later on the close by Villa de Madrid Nation Membership, Jon Rahm returns to the well-known Madrid course, designed in his day by Javier Arana, with the intention of additionally equaling the achievement achieved by Ángel de la Torre in 1916, 1917 and 1919, a time when golf was radically totally different from the present one.
Jon Rahm additionally faces different statistical challenges solely inside the attain of the most effective, one in every of them established by the Basque idol himself within the 2019 version, when he equaled, with 22 beneath par, the bottom successful lead to an Open of Spain, which Kenneth Ferrie had achieved within the 2003 version, at the moment champion in tiebreak towards Peter Hedblom and Peter Lawrie.
Quicken Loans Nationwide was his first professional occasion and he completed it third. The Canadian Open, however, noticed him end second. On the finish of the season he obtained a card for the PGA Tour 2017. Rahm discovered his first success within the Farmers Insurance coverage Open because of an eagle on the final gap, managing to enter the foremost tournaments on the world scene.
On the Mexico Championship, an occasion of the World Golf Championships sequence, he completed third, two pictures from the winner Dustin Johnson, whereas within the second occasion, the Dell Applied sciences Match Play, he misplaced the ultimate towards Johnson himself.
He later gained the Irish Open by six strokes and the ultimate event of the European Tour season, the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, additionally successful the rookie of the yr award.
