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“What’s my intention on this Ryder Cup? To win each match, let’s hope. One of the best factor concerning the competitors, except for profitable it, is getting into the locker room along with your teammates and forming bonds and friendships that may final a lifetime.”
Jon Rahm, statements
Thus mentioned Jon Rahm, Spanish golfer and star of Workforce Europe, within the press convention forward of the beginning (September 29) of the Ryder Cup ’23.
“Would I pay an entry charge to be a part of Workforce Europe (if I wasn’t a part of it, ed.)? Sure, I’d. The sense of anticipation of the Ryder Cup is solely particular,” provides the previous world primary. He attended Arizona State College and received 11 faculty tournaments, second solely to Phil Mickelson who received 16 titles.
In 2015 he participated as an beginner within the Phoenix Open, ending fifth. On April 1 he grew to become first within the World Newbie Golf Rating and remained there for 25 weeks, then regained the place and held it for one more 35 weeks.
He thus certified for the U.S. Open and the Open Championship the next yr: within the first of the 2 tournaments he got here twenty-third, then turned skilled, concurrently dropping the precise to play within the Open. The Quicken Loans Nationwide was his first skilled occasion and he completed third.
The Canadian Open as a substitute noticed him come second. On the finish of the season he obtained a card for the 2017 PGA Tour. Rahm discovered his first success within the Farmers Insurance coverage Open due to an eagle on the final gap, managing to enter the key tournaments on the world scene.
On the Mexico Championship, an occasion within the World Golf Championships collection, he completed third, two strokes behind the winner Dustin Johnson, whereas within the second occasion, the Dell Applied sciences Match Play, he misplaced the ultimate towards Johnson himself.
He later received the Irish Open by six strokes and the ultimate event of the European Tour season, the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, additionally profitable the rookie of the yr award. He started 2018 with a second place on the Match of Champions, nonetheless behind Dustin Johnson, however then got here the triumph on the CareerBuilder Problem with which he reached second place within the rating: adopted by the one on the Spanish Open and the one on the 2018 Ryder Cup along with European crew.
He completed the yr by additionally taking the title on the Hero World Problem in December. In 2019 got here success on the Zurich Basic of New Orleans and third place on the U.S. Open. He then returned to win the Irish Open and defended his title on the Spanish Open.
On the finish of the season he triumphed once more on the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, thus ending the Race to Dubai within the lead and turning into Golfer of the Yr of the European Tour. Within the yr marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the Memorial Match title he grew to become first on the planet rankings, the second Spaniard in historical past to take action after Severiano Ballesteros.
In August he additionally received the BMW Championship, beating Dustin Johnson within the playoff. In June 2021 he was pressured to desert the Memorial Match, the place he was main by six strokes on the finish of the third spherical, because of a optimistic COVID-19 test-.
Nonetheless, his first triumph in a serious arrived on June twentieth, on the U.S. Open, thanks to 2 birdies within the final two holes. In July he positioned third on the Open Championship tied with Louis Oosthuizen.
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