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With his stellar season behind him, Jon Rahm has demonstrated his qualities in a way that has been nothing less than outstanding. However, his ambitions are even higher, and he is still hungry for trophies and success, as he aims to reach the top.
There is no doubt that the PGA Championship will be a very important test for him. There is a desire on Rahm’s part to go to the very end and win the championship. He has no intention of stopping himself from reaching a new major championship after winning the Masters.
“I’m confident,”- Rahm said, as quoted by skysports.com “I feel good. I feel good. It’s been a great year. It’s been an amazing year. I’m just hoping to keep adding more to it. It has been a lot of fun, and hopefully I can keep riding that wave.
It doesn’t happen often that a player wins more than one major in a year, so it would be amazing to be able to join my name to that list.” The Open Championship is another major he dreams of, but it will be difficult for him to decide which he would rather win: the PGA Championship or the Open “Obviously if I were to win this week or the Open Championship it [the Grand Slam] really becomes a true reality, but winning two majors is not easy and picking which ones you win is a little ludicrous to think about,” -Rahm continued.
Jon Rahm on winning the Grand Slam
Rahm is aware that he has a chance to become the first player since Tiger Woods to win all 4 majors in a row. Winning the Grand Slam is not his primary focus. Rahm has other goals, but he is also aware that winning the Grand Slam would be a huge success.
“I think obviously winning the Grand Slam would absolutely be amazing, but I think – without sounding too conceited or arrogant, I’d rather focus on the number of majors you win than having the Grand Slam per se. Obviously it would be amazing, but the more you put yourself in the position to be able to win majors, the more likely you might be to get it done.
It’s a very small number of players to do it, last one being Tiger [Woods]. It’s obviously not an easy thing to accomplish.”
