The same result is read in different ways according to its owner. Jon Rahm feels the -3 card as “a lost opportunity” to win his third big big one ,. It is the consequence of playing for history. Sergio García writes the same number but sees the glass half full. A return of three under the pair still feeds his hope of convincing the European Captain of the Ryder, Luke Donald, to grant him an invitation for the September appointment in New York.
“Three good great and one bad,” summarizes Rahm after -Sunday -1, fastened with a putt seven meters in 18. The last blow of the tournament relieved him slightly for so many medium distance failures during the week in the green. Although he did not erase the “bad taste” for not competing for the title. After a 14th place in the Masters, an eighth in the PGA and a seventh in the US Open, this 34th place in the Open is its worst result of the course in the greats. “I am not happy. It is not that I feel that I am playing badly, not even so far. It bothers me that the difference between what I feel and the result is so big, and not having played better. It’s hard to finish like this,” said the Basque.
Rahm will play this week the LIV tournament in the United Kingdom. It will be the fifth followed by competition for Sergio García, a marathon that weighs at age 45. The Castellón signed -3 in Royal Portrush and left along the way. After a bad exit in hole 2, the ball left at 275 km/h, stamped its driver against the ground and the stick broke in half of the rod. The Spanish had to play the rest of the round without being able to use it since the rules do not allow to replace it in these cases. “If I hit him with a desire to break it, I give him different and break it without a doubt. I have hit him with the anger not to make a good exit. I was very surprised where he has broken. If you hit him against the ground, he breaks down the neck, and has broken through the rod. From there I had to use the wood three,” Garcia explained.
The blow to the bag, zapateos in the green and axes in the bunkers is long in the trajectory of Castellón. In 2017, for example, he broke his putter In Boston when crushing it after a failure. “It does not come from a blow, it is more the feeling than the blow itself. It is what I intend to do and what I do then what I get furried.
Garcia did not pass the cut in the Masters, it was 67º in the PGA and did not qualify for the US Open. The British maintains the flame of the Ryder. “This has not been my last chance, the team is not chosen.
