Rahm crashes on the first day of the PGA Championship

Golf, that strange sport, so unpredictable and sometimes so cruel. Jon Rahm had us so well accustomed that the tough start this Thursday at the PGA Championship, the second major of the year, was irrational until a few hours ago..

If Rahm won the British one month ago starting the tournament with a double bogey, this Thursday, after the initial birdie on hole 1, everything seemed in order for another solid performance.. it was a mirage. Then came six bogeys and a double bogey that left the Spaniard knocked out, with a card of 76 shots, six over par for the course.. And all this despite a final glimpse of claw that gave him the birdie on hole 8, penultimate of the day and a great recovery on the nine.

A timid reaction that only served to make up the worst golf day of the year for Barrika and one of the worst results of his career. Ranked 112th in the tournament, a disaster. Rahm will go out this Friday into an abyss of the leaders and in serious danger of failing the cut of this new Grand Slam tournament, the PGA Championship, always elusive in the history of Spanish golf.

Five years later

Rahm had not signed such a high round since 2018 where he started the US Open in Pebble Beach with 78 strokes, the same as he signed in the second round of the Open Championship. On both occasions, the Spaniard missed the cut and that will be the main challenge for the second day.

This Friday's turn at Oak Hill was resolved with the 67 shots (-3) of world number two Scottie Scheffler, reaching one of the first positions and the 66 of Bryson DeChambeau, the LIV Golf player was the best of those who they left in the early hours of the day. The first day began with a delay of just over two hours due to frost, which caused some players not to finish their first 18 holes.