Jon Rahm lastly got his win. 2 weeks after getting displaced of The Memorial with a six-shot lead after 3 rounds since of COVID tracing, Rahm won the 121 st U.S. Open Champion at Torrey Pines Golf Course.
Rahm ended up the competition at 6-under par, simply ahead of Louis Oosthuizen, who now has 6 second-place surfaces in his profession.
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Expert golf enthusiasts lastly started appearing like daily, leisure golf enthusiasts Sunday afternoon throughout the back 9 at the U.S. Open Champion at Torrey Pines in San Diego. What appeared like a jam-packed field preparing yourself to make a rise for a significant title became the very best golf players worldwide shanking shots and attempting to conserve par and not slip out of contention.
Oosthuizen shot even par on the very first 9, and after that made a birdie on 10 to bring him to 6-under. A bogey on 11 brought him right back to 5-under, where he stayed with a one-shot lead over Jon Rahm for a number of holes.
Rahm sank a curving, winding birdie on the 17 th green to put him connected with Oosthiuzen at 5-under while the South African was drilling his 2nd shot onto the 14 th green. Oosthiuzen simply missed out on birdie on a long putt and opted for a 2-foot par and tie for the lead.
Rahm struck an ideal tee shot onto the fairway at 18, however then knocked his 2nd shot into a sand trap near the green. He birdied the par-5 hole to put him at 6-under and the competition lead as he left the course.
Oosthuizen’s tee shot on 17 went large left, and he required a drop on the par-4 hole. He then sent his 3rd shot onto the green, however he ended with a bogey. He required to eagle the par-5 18 th to require a playoff with Rahm. Oosthuizen’s 3rd shot missed out on, offering Spain its very first U.S. Open champ with Rahm.
Oosthuizen ended up at 5-under par after a birdie on the last hole.
Americans Harris English (-3) and Brooks Koepka (-2) completed their last round an hour ahead of the pack and went to the clubhouse to await their last standings as the last groups of golf players made their method through the course.
American Bryson DeChambeau remained in a four-way tie for top place prior to he birdied the par-3 on hole 8. DeChambeau utilized a pitching wedge on the hole that was 175 lawns away. His very first shot landed within an inch of the hole, and a tap-in put him at 5-under– one shot in the lead.
Things deviated on the back 9 when DeChambeau made bogey on 11 and 12, then a double bogey on 13 to put him at 1-under par for the competition, connected for seventh at the time. He triple-bogeyed the 17 th hole to put him at 3-over par for the competition.
2 weeks back at The Memorial, Patrick Cantlay called the last round “unusual” after Rahm had actually been required far from the competition. It wasn’t the late, pop-up shower on the 17 th, or the 25- foot birdie on 18 that sent out Cantlay into a playoff with Collin Morikawa.
The “unusual” part was that the leader who strolled off the course with a six-shot lead after 54 holes on Saturday, Jon Rahm, wasn’t there Sunday because he needed to all of a sudden withdraw from the competition after checking favorable for COVID-19
” It was such an unusual scenario, so regrettable,” Cantlay stated. “Everybody, me consisted of, understands it would be absolutely various today if that had not occurred. There’s absolutely nothing I might do about it. I attempted as tough as I might to reset and refocus.”
Rahm, whose 64 ranked as one of the fantastic rounds at the course Jack Nicklaus developed and connected 2 Memorial records, consisted of that competition’s biggest 54- hole lead.
However he evaluated favorable for the coronavirus – Rahm had actually remained in the contact tracing procedure – and was withdrawn from the competition.
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