Rahm can't find the magic at the British Open
British was the day of the Jon Rahm explosion that many expected. The sensations are still good, but the result continues without accompanying the golfer from Barrika. It seems a matter of time before everything adjusts and the usual numbers of the Masters winner appear, the ones that led him to sweep the first leg of the season, although the impression is that it will not be this week. Rahm finished day one under par, in a day in which barely thirty players managed to beat Royal Liverpool, but in the accumulated he is +2, no less than 12 shots behind the leader.
Little lefty Brian Harman blew up the rankings with a sci-fi -6. The double winner of the PGA Tour leads the last major of the year with -10. He already led the last day of the US Open in 2017, where he would finish second, his best performance so far in majors..
The inside story of Rahmbo's day was in the key putts for par that managed to keep him in the focus of the tournament. “I have put five of three meters for par,” he acknowledged. That claw loop held him at the worst moment, just when he was coming from making bogeys on holes 9 and 10, and could endanger until the cut. “I wasn't thinking about it,” said the Spaniard, however, who saved more than meritorious pars from hole 10 to 14, and shot with rage, chaste and good hands around the green so as not to lower his arms.
late mistake
The birdies on the 15th and especially on the emblematic 17th left the field at their mercy to, with a birdie on the 18th, end the second day at par on the course and a very different feeling to face the weekend. But an unexpected error, with three putts at 18, destroyed the milkmaid tales and Rahm finished at +2 in the accumulated, enough to make the tournament cut, but not enough to get into the fight.. There is only room left for the epic, today, and may this give you encouragement for Sunday.
It was somewhat easier for Adrian Otaegui, the best Spaniard with -2 in the standings for now, which allows him to hold a position in the top ten of the tournament. Otaegui finished in a +2 in the day, in a day of more complicated conditions. «The field was much more difficult than on the first day. It was more difficult to take the streets due to the wind, “Rahm himself confessed.
“The difference, in the putts”
«It has cost me more to leave the ball close. Until the last holes I had no birdie option,” said Otaegui. Despite acknowledging that he was in a good situation, it was a shame that the good birdie options escaped him alive to finish holes 17 and 18. «My game has been similar to Thursday's, the difference is in making putts. I am enjoying it a lot, when you shoot and see the ball fly as you wish, everything looks different. Otaegui enters the weekend with the best chance of his career to finally shine in a big one.
During the course of Friday afternoon, the rest of the Spaniards Pablo Larrazábal (+4), Josele Ballester (+5), Nacho Elvira (+7), Alejandro Cañizares (+7), Jorge Campillo (+14), Adri Arnaus (+21) kept fighting to pass the tournament cut, currently set at +2.