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Two years in the past, Jon Rahm grew to become a Masters champion and plenty of thought of him the primary competitor to Scottie Scheffler for title of finest golfer on the planet. Then Rahm went and left the PGA Tour for the supposedly greener pastures of LIV Golf. Rahm had only one top-10 in main championships and claimed he was unfairly judged. However now, Rahm is but once more nicely adrift on the Masters, 10 photographs again of chief Justin Rose getting into the weekend, and he’s modified his tune a bit about his recreation.
“Not good,” Rahm mentioned of his recreation after Friday’s second spherical. “I imply, I grinded and received quite a lot of good up-and-downs to have the ability to break par and hopefully make the minimize. However simply quite a lot of unhealthy swings after which quite a lot of errors once I was in a great place.
“I have to say, yesterday and in the present day, there was fairly a number of iron swings that I assumed had been good that simply — whether or not we received the wind mistaken or simply different issues that occur at Augusta that didn’t find yourself both on the inexperienced or shut sufficient for it to be a birdie likelihood, after which after that, I simply really feel like I hit quite a lot of good putts and nothing went in.”
Jon Rahm Laying One other Egg In The Masters Brings Again Experiences Of LIV Regrets
Rahm tried to maintain a constructive spin on issues getting into the weekend, however the stark actuality of one other main the place he didn’t compete for the victory was arduous to disregard.
“Simply little issues like that that at main championships can set you again fairly a bit. I’ve a fairly large mountain to climb to have an opportunity tomorrow or to have an opportunity come Sunday.”
In fact, Rahm’s second-round 71 was a singificant enchancment from an opening-round 75 that noticed him practically snap his driver in half. However the disappointing displaying additionally comes amid a number of stories that he regrets transferring to the Saudi-backed golf tour. Rahm denied these stories. However they received’t go away. And so long as he performs like this in main championships, they most likely received’t any time quickly.
