Jon Rahm, the winner who can’t find a ceiling

“One day I will be number 1 in the world”. Jon Rahm (Barrica, Vizcaya, 1994) he was a kid when he told his coach, Eduardo Celles, something more than carefree desire. He proclaimed a goal that would become an obsession. How to win the best tournaments in the world. He already has Ryder (contributed to the triumph of Europe in 2018), they open us up (won at Torrey Pines in 2021), and now the Masters.

rahm started playing at the Larrabe field and perfected his game in Celles School in Deri. He had a talent for playing golf, a desire to spend all day on the course, and, furthermore, indomitable character to bring out the best in the competition, to turn the anger of his early years into the gasoline that fueled his endless ambition.

“Anger is the best energy for progress, grow. I don’t like machines,” he explained to La Voz Joseba del Carmenformer Ertaintza bomb defuser and coach Rahm’s mental

His outstanding results in the training phase first opened the door for him National Golf Center, with a scholarship at the Joaquín Blume residence in Madrid, according to orders kiko luna. From there it went to Arizona State Universitycradle of golfers like Pat Perez, Paul Casey, Phil Mickelson…

The latter gradually became a species Rahm’s mentorand his brother Timin it manager it led to his leap to professionalism, with the aura of a future star, and his first steps on the PGA Tour. In between he didn’t stop imposing himself punishments to censor his misdirected rageLike the time she kicked his bat bag and sent him running endlessly up and down the steps of the college football stadium.

Rahm tanned. and collected a large part the best amateur tournaments: Ben Hogan Award twice, Eisenhower Trophy, World Ranking Leader and World Championship amateur 2014, breaking the stroke record there held by Jack Nicklaus since 1960. Rahm turned pro in mid-2016., and it only took him seven months to win his first title. Record after record of earliness and regularity, climbed to #1 in the world rankings in July 2020, when he won the Memorial at home Jack Nicklaus. Your game was really fantastic, praised the legend of the 18th winner directions.

All that was missing was his top performance And Grand Slam to do him justice. And he succeeded on the twentieth attempt, winning 2021 US Open at Torrey Pinesjust a few days after he was released from prison due to the coronavirus. Now he already has Masters. Half of a large collection. He misses the PGA Championship and the British Open. A question of time?

The tenth “grand slam” title of a Spaniard

Jon Rahm not only plays golf passionately, but also watches it, studies it, enjoys the great feats that have made his sport great. Before the start of the Masters, he selected his favorite moments from Augusta’s meeting: “I prefer the duel between Tiger and Mickelson in 2002, Seve’s last round in 1980, when he won his first Masters, and Mickelson’s triumph in 2010.”. When he won the US Open in 2021, his first Grand Slamhe did not hesitate in dedication: – He is going to Seve, and this trophy is his. There was no fraud. Indirectly, Jon took up golf because his father traveled to Valderrama Ryder Cup 1997. From that initial experience of the father of the family, Edort, first his love for golf, and then for his son, arose.

Rahm peppered the celebrations of his victories with thanks and a nod to Seva’s legacy, his greatest inspiration. The Pedreño phenomenon was the player who convinced the Europeans that they could win in the United States as well. Not only did he win the British Open three times, in 1979 and 1988 at Royal Lytham and in 1984 at St. Andrews, he has already won two Masters. So far, three more have arrived in Augusta. Grand Slam for Spanish golf. First your partner in Ryder, Chema Olazabal, who won in 1994 and 1999, followed by Sergio García in 2017. Now Rahm is expanding the bill. Tenth main spanish.