Euskaraz irakurri: Jon Rahmek Sentry Tournament of Champions txapelketa bereganatu du, emaitza iraulita
jon rahm This Sunday he overturned the seven shots behind he started with at the beginning of the last day (nine taking into account the last 17 holes), and was crowned champion of the Sentry Tournament of Championsin Kapalúa (Hawaii), with two shots ahead of the American collin morikawa.
rahm finished the last round with an excellent ten under par, for a total of -27 in the four days, and took advantage of the drop in morikawawho chained three bogeys consecutive holes between holes fourteen and 16, the first of his tournament, which cost him the title.
The one from Barrika was crowned with the eighth title of his career on the PGA Tour, the first in 2023, which allowed him to extend his streak with at least one title per season to seven.
Jon Rahm is CLUTCH?
An emotional end for @JonRahmPGA on 18 @Sentry_TOC. pic.twitter.com/BD5pb5EnwF
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) January 9, 2023
It was an extraordinary comeback rahmeven more so after starting the fourth round with a bogey that left him nine strokes from a morikawa until then perfect.
Because the American faced the last round without having made any mistakes in 54 holes and still did not fail in 67, which seemed to be on track for his victory in Hawaii.
rahm He did not lose his lucidity and decided to go step by step, trying to pick up the pace and finish the tournament well, without focusing on his ambitions for victory.
“If you tell me after bogey I don’t know if I would believe you, but at that moment you don’t think about winning, you just have to work and do birdies to pick up rhythm“, acknowledged the Biscayan at the end of the tournament.
And he did it superbly. He got four birdies in the next five holes and chained three birdies and a eagle between twelve and fifteen. It was at that moment that she realized that his horizons could change and that an impossible comeback became possible.
morikawaimpeccable until the thirteenth hole, lost lucidity after his first mistake, on the fourteenth, and chained bogeys in the fifteenth and in the 16th that made him lose command.
rahmalready unstoppable, closed his round with a birdie in 18 and only had to wait for morikawamentally sunk, will complete his round to have the official title.
His tournament ends with four rounds under par: 64 in the first, which gave him the lead along with morikawa Already JJ Spaun71 in the second, 67 in the third, before a staggering 63 this Sunday.
It had been 16 years since a player had been crowned in this tournament after finishing second in the previous edition. The last to achieve it was the golfer from Fiji Vijay Singh.
To rahm it is the first title at the Sentry Tournament of Champions and their comeback was the biggest after three rounds since 1978.
He ended up triumphing with two shots ahead of morikawa and four on Tom Hoge Y Max Homa. six blows left scottie scheffler and the british Matthew Fitzpatrick. Farther away they were placed Will Zalatoriseleventh, and Jordan Spieththirteenth.
Final Leaderboard @Sentry_TOC what
one. @JonRahmPGA (-27)
2. @Collin_Morikawa (-25)
T3. @MaxHoma23 (-23)
T3. @HogeGolf
T5. @JoohyungKim0621 (-22)
T5. @JJSpaun
T7. @TonyFinauGolf (-twenty-one)
T7. @MattFitz94
T7. scottie scheffler
T7. KH Lee— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) January 9, 2023
Source: Eitb
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