He PGA, the second ‘Major’ of the season, was never a favorable tournament for Spanish golfers. The famous curse of Bambino in baseball involved Babe Ruth and the Red Sox from MLB for 86 years. When the second ‘big’ of the golf season was played for the first time, in 1916the batting legend still played in Bostonthey had not yet transferred him to the Yankees for a bit
ado of dollars nor had the enchantment that prevented the
Red Sox
win the title for more than eight decades, from
1918
until
2004
. Well, as if it were a thing of witches, the ancient
PGA
He continues to resist even the myths of national golf. It is easier to see a meteorite fly over the peninsula.
The curse of the PGA
Sergio Garc�a
I stroked him in 1999 (he was second),
Olaz�bal
became fourth (2000) and the unrepeatable
Seve Ballesteros
It reached a fifth place best position (1984). At this point, who better than
Jon Rahm
to put all the ghosts in a bag and lock them in the closet of past frustrations. Water. For now,
2024 is not the year of the Basque golfer
what
didn’t make the cut
in the field quote
Valhalla
in
Lousville
. Viking heaven was hell for Jon. Such a debacle has not happened in a ‘Grande’ since 2019. Crisis?
Worrying trend
If his performance in the
Masters
(40th ranked, the worst position in
Augusta
of his luminous career), his failure in the PGA confirms that the change to
LIV
It’s not sitting well with him. The loss of competitiveness (from fighting for wins to fighting to make the cut) and the absence of titles (he has not won any tournament this year) could be compensated with his appearance in the
Forbes list
as the second richest athlete in the world after
Cristiano
. It’s a good boot, without a doubt. But in terms of greatness, for someone as capable, a unique player like Jon, it’s very poor just to amass money.
Rahm
He left the PGA circuit, where they adored him, jilted. Nor do they welcome him there with open arms anymore.
It was ugly to “wring his neck”
. For now, embrace the
LIV
It was a bad blow.
