Jon Rahm was in apparent ache at LIV Golf Houston.
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Jon Rahm hasn’t had the 12 months in 2024 he might have anticipated, and it might need taken a flip for the worst this weekend.
After a video of Rahm grimacing in ache after a swing throughout the first spherical of LIV Golf’s Houston occasion on the Golf Club of Houston, the two-time main winner made it simply six holes into his second spherical Saturday.
Rahm made a brief par putt on the tenth gap (his sixth of the day) earlier than starting to shake arms along with his enjoying companions because the CW broadcast reported his withdrawal. LIV’s No. 2 participant on the season was even par on the day and three underneath for the event, 4 photographs again after he opened with 69 Friday.
On the seventh gap Friday, Rahm winced in clear ache after enjoying his method to the par-3. He made par on the opening after which made 5 birdies offset by one double bogey.
His WD comes simply days earlier than he was set to be one of many favorites for subsequent week’s U.S. Open at Pinehurst. Rahm received the 2021 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines for his first main title and added a second final 12 months on the Masters.
LIV Golf broadcaster Arlo White reported Rahm had been coping with a “cut in between his toes” and obtained therapy on Friday and earlier than the spherical on Saturday.
The 29-year-old Spaniard despatched shockwaves by the golf world when he selected to signal with LIV Golf in December after a four-win 2023 season, together with his victory at Augusta. In seven begins earlier than this week in 2024 for the breakaway PGA Tour rival league, Rahm hasn’t completed worse than tenth, however he has but to win both.
His outcomes in the primary two majors of the 12 months have additionally been disappointing, ending T45 in his title protection on the Masters and lacking the minimize on the PGA Championship. Before the PGA at Valhalla, Rahm had made 18 consecutive cuts in majors, the longest-active streak coming in.
Before lacking the minimize at Valhalla, he made headlines once more for claiming he nonetheless needed to be thought-about a member of the PGA Tour regardless of being suspended for becoming a member of LIV Golf in the beginning of the 12 months.
Jon Rahm’s curious PGA Tour remarks elevate eyebrows at PGA Championship
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“See you guys keep saying ‘the other side’ but I’m still a PGA Tour member, whether suspended or not,” the 2023 Masters winner stated. “I still want to support the PGA Tour. And I think that’s an important distinction to make. I don’t feel like I’m on the other side. I’m just not playing there.”
Rahm’s feedback drew the ire of analysts on Golf Channel’s “Live From” program.
“I want to I want to wring his neck through the television,” stated Aaron Oberholzer. “I’m that mad, right now. I’m that mad. I mean— and every player in that locker room right now, if they watch that — on the PGA Tour — should be absolutely incensed with him.”
Now, the World No. 3’s standing for the 12 months’s third main at Pinehurst, the place as of this writing he was tied for the fourth-best odds at +1600, is in doubt.
This is a growing story and can be up to date as new info turns into obtainable.
