{"id":21484,"date":"2017-07-10T08:36:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T08:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/rahm-sweeps-the-irish-open-and-his-victory-takes-him-to-eighth-place-in-the-world-ranking\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T08:36:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T08:36:46","slug":"rahm-sweeps-the-irish-open-and-his-victory-takes-him-to-eighth-place-in-the-world-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/rahm-sweeps-the-irish-open-and-his-victory-takes-him-to-eighth-place-in-the-world-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahm sweeps the Irish Open and his victory takes him to eighth place in the world ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jon Rahm, at 22 years of age, is proving that he is here to stay among the world elite, and his second professional victory and first on the European Tour, at the Irish Open, attests to this. With his resounding success, with a final round of 65 strokes that included two eagles and took him six ahead of the runners-up, Ramsay and Southgate, the young Basque from Barrika broke the tournament record for strokes under par. <\/p>\n

Rahm thus joined his name as champion at the Scottish Open to his three most successful compatriots in the international arena: the unforgettable Seve, Olaz\u00e1bal and Sergio Garc\u00eda.<\/p>\n

With his victory, the Biscayan climbed to eighth place in the world ranking, where Sergio is fifth.<\/p>\n

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An anecdote of the final day, in which Rahm started tied for the lead with Daniel Im, is that the Spaniard was benefited on hole 6 of the revision of the rules of golf that apply since last April, specifically when he raised his marker for being in Im\u2019s line of shot and placed it to the right, a putt head away. He hit Im and then Rahm regained his marker position but placed the ball in front of him instead of to the side. <\/p>\n

Under new standards announced in April, a referee can deem that the player did \u201ceverything that can reasonably be expected\u201d to follow the rules, despite what the video evidence shows. In making his decision, the referee can take several things into account, including the player\u2019s explanation, his body language, comments from fellow players and more. <\/p>\n

The tournament\u2019s rules official, Andy McFee, accepted Rahm\u2019s arguments, who thus escaped a two-stroke penalty.<\/p>\n

As Rahm told Golf Channel, \u201cI moved the marker and put it behind and as I saw I put the ball behind exactly where it had been\u2026 I thought it was the exact spot. Andy (the referee) told me there was a very small difference. I thought I had put it right in the same place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOn 13 I said to Andy, \u2018If there\u2019s stroke penalty tell me now, and I\u2019ll take it. If I\u2019ve done it, I\u2019ve done it.\u201d<\/p>\n

McFee said, \u201cHe has not put the ball directly to the side, but slightly offset from the center. On a clock it would be the equivalent of putting it at 10 o\u2019clock instead of 9 o\u2019clock, which might be the right angle. A couple of millimeters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Rahm, at 22 years of age, is proving that he is here to stay among the world elite, and his second professional victory and first on the European Tour, at the Irish Open, attests to this. With his resounding success, with a final round of 65 strokes that included two eagles and took him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}