Jon Rahm, with a total of 13 under par, has chosen the best moment to open his LIV Golf record, just four days before he makes his debut at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games defending the colors of Spain.
The Basque golfer has won for the first time in the Saudi circuit after offering a master class of game in the JCB Golf & Country Club course (England), resolving in his favor a tremendously tight finish.
Jon Rahm started the event in the best possible way, with a round of -8 in which no bogey was to be regretted. That, like his good performance at the recent British Open, was a hint of what was to come. Some irons in perfect condition and an increasingly fine putt show that Jon Rahm is going through the best moment of the season.
After a second day somewhat less lucid in which he ceded the lead and some of the pressure to the American Andy Ogletree, Jon Rahm faced the final day as he likes, near the top to put pressure on his rivals coming from behind. He did it with his first birdies on holes 2 and 6, but it was not until the stretch between 10 and 13, resolved with a partial -3, when he took the lead.
There began a dance to which Chilean Joaquín Niemann (-12 overall), Cameroon Smith (-12) or his teammate Tyrrell Hatton (-12) were also invited. A carom smiled on Jon Rahm just after making an untimely bogey at the 17th, and it was Niemann who made it on his last hole. This confirmed a triumph as long awaited as desired, just before his Olympic debut.
There could not be a better moment than this to open the victory account -remember that Jon Rahm had not won since he did so in the 2023 Masters-, and both the Basque and David Puig from Barcelona, eleventh with -8, are now heading to Paris to live the Olympic dream.
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