The Spaniard signed a card of 63 impacts -10 to achieve his eighth US PGA Tour title
This past Sunday, jon rahm he hit nine birdies and an eagle to go 10-63, a spectacular comeback that knocked out a faltering Collin Morikawa and gave him the US PGA Tour Tournament of Champions title in Hawaii. Without a doubt, excellent news.
And it is that jon rahm he was nine shots behind third-round leader American Morikawa after a bogey on the first hole. The local, two-time Grand Slam winner, had increased his lead to seven after his third birdie of the day on the sixth hole.
Jon Rahm, arrived with nine strokes behind the American Collin Morikawa
In this way, however, the Spaniard had a spectacular comeback and collapsed Morikawa on this last day, to achieve his eighth US PGA Tour title with a total of 265 shots -24 on the par 73 Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii. Morikawa, charged a par 72 -1 and 267 -25 in total.
Rahm said he would never have dreamed after his opening bogey that he would leave the field with a three-shot lead. “At that moment it’s not like you really had in mind to win,” said the Iberian. “You just have to get to work and start making birdies, and that’s what I did.”
The current Masters champion took one of his best prizes
Likewise, Rahm birdied 12 feet in the second, another in the fourth, fifth and sixth before punctuating his run to the outside with a birdie in the ninth. “That stretch with birdies from four to six and nine allowed me to get into the rhythm,” Rahm clarified.
The Spaniard took a prize of 2.7 million dollars from the 15 million purse, promoted this year in the first of the “elevated events” of the PGA Tour for 2023 with greater purses and promises of the best courses in response to the LIV Golf League financed by Saudi Arabia.