Jon Rahm started the year 2022 with a magnificent second place in the Sentry Tournament of Champions -in a duel that ended up being historic with Cameron Smith- and will start his calendar again in the tournament of champions on January 4.
He owes it to his victory at the Mexico Open, his first win of 2022, in May, shortly after losing number one.
Jon Rahm, 2023
By then, an unstoppable Scottie Scheffler had moved him to second place in the ranking. To this day, Jon is number 5, but it can be safely said that the Lion of Barrika is once again at a formidable moment.
The 21/22 season on the PGA Tour ended as the best in statistics off the tee and finished 28th in putting after a notable improvement in the second leg of the year. The start of 22/23 began with a very relevant piece of information: although he has only been in one tournament, he is the third around the green when the previous course ended as 143rd.
In any case, Rahm’s takeoff came after the majors. “Maybe I didn’t start as well as I would have wanted, but I finished very, very well. And that is something that changes the dynamics of the entire year a lot. In the last four months the results of how I saw myself on the golf course were seen.
, which in the first five months was not seen the same”, commented the man from Barrika a few days ago when he received the Illustrious Award of Bizkaia. Since the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs, Jon has accumulated seven ‘top 10’ finishes in eight tournaments, including his third victory at the Spanish Open -with an all-time record for total shots and under par- and the DPWT Championship.
Despite his tremendous finale, he narrowly missed out on taking the BMW PGA Championship. However, the most positive thing is that Rahmbo started to fight for victories again on a very regular basis. The sweet moment came just when there was no longer any big one left to be disputed, something that hurt the Basque, but that he wants to remedy in 2023.
“A thorn in the majors? A big thorn, quite big. Having almost no option in any , removing in one of them, it hurts a little more because in the end it is what we are playing for”, said the Biscayan.
