Jon Rahm Rodríguez (born 10 November 1994) is a Spanish professional golfer. He was the number one golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for a record 60 weeks and was the low amateur at the 2016 U.S. Open. Prior to this event, Rahm was ranked 766 in the Official World Golf Ranking. On 21 January 2018, Rahm reached a career-high ranking of No. 2 in the world after winning the CareerBuilder Challenge.
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Amateur career
Born in Barrika, Basque Country, Spain, Rahm played collegiate golf for the Arizona State Sun Devils where he won 11 college tournaments, which is second in school history, only behind Phil Mickelson's 16 collegiate wins. Since the inception of the Ben Hogan Award in 1990, no player has won the award more than once, until Rahm won it for the second consecutive year in 2016. He was also the individual winner at the 2014 Eisenhower Trophy. He competed in the 2015 Phoenix Open as an amateur during his junior year, finishing tied for fifth place, three shots behind the winner. On 1 April 2015, Rahm became the 28th player to be the No. 1-ranked golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. His first stint was for 25 consecutive weeks, after which he surrendered it, regained it, and held it for an additional 35 weeks. His total of 60 weeks spent atop the ranking is the all-time record. While ranked No. 1 in the world, he advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2015 U.S. Amateur before losing to Derek Bard.
He won the Mark H. McCormack Medal in 2015 as the leading player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, which qualified him for the following year's U.S. Open and Open Championship. He closed out his collegiate career by winning the Pac-12 Conference championship and an NCAA regional championship before finishing tied for third in the national championship. He was the low amateur at the 2016 U.S. Open, finishing his final tournament as an amateur in a tie for 23rd place at 7-over-par.
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Professional career
2016
After the U.S. Open, Rahm turned professional, which meant that he forfeited his exemption into the 2016 Open Championship. The next week Rahm played in his first event as a pro at the Quicken Loans National. He held or shared the lead for the first two rounds and finished tied for third place, four strokes behind the winner, Billy Hurley III. The finish was enough for Rahm to regain entry into The Open, as the Quicken Loans National was part of the Open Qualifying Series. Rahm finished tied runner-up in the RBC Canadian Open, securing Special Temporary Member status for the remainder of the season. He gained enough points as a non-member to earn a PGA Tour card for 2017.
2017
In late January 2017, Rahm won the Farmers Insurance Open with a 60-foot eagle putt on the final hole to notch his maiden PGA Tour title. He jumped from 137th to 46th in the Official World Golf Ranking with the win, and also gained entry into the Masters Tournament, The Players Championship, the PGA Championship, and World Golf Championships events. On 2 March, Rahm played in his first World Golf Championships event at the WGC-Mexico Championship where he shot rounds of 67-70-67-68 (-12) to finish T3, two strokes behind winner Dustin Johnson. After the tournament he tweeted, "Great playing @DJohnsonPGA. I look forward to a Sunday rematch soon. I wouldn't mind if it happens at a place called Augusta National." Rahm would get his wish three weeks later in his second WGC event, the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, where he faced Johnson in the championship match. He debuted as the No. 21-seed in the field of 64 and went 3-0 in round-robin play, defeating Kevin Chappell 3 & 2, Shane Lowry 2 & 1, and countryman Sergio García 6 & 4. He continued his domination in the round of 16 with a second consecutive 6 & 4 win over Charles Howell III, and then bested that mark when he eliminated Søren Kjeldsen 7 & 5 in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, he defeated Bill Haas 3 & 2, which set up his rematch with Johnson, who was attempting to win his third straight tournament. In the final, Rahm was 5-down after just 8 holes, but won holes 9, 10, 13, 15, and 16 to get to only 1-down going into the 18th. Both players made par on the final hole of the match and Rahm finished runner-up in his WGC-Match Play debut, which allowed him to ascend to a new career-high world ranking of 14th.
Rahm finished tied for 27th place in his first Masters and then finished 4th in the Wells Fargo Championship and joint runner-up in the Dean & DeLuca Invitational, results which lifted him into the top-10 of the World Rankings. Making his debut in a European Tour event, he finished tied for 10th in the Open de France and, the following week, he earned his first European Tour victory by winning the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open by six strokes.
Rahm finished the regular season in sixth place in the FedEx Cup rankings. He had top-10 finishes in all four of the FedEx Cup Playoff events and finshed fifth in the final standings.
Rahm won the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, the final event of the 2017 European Tour season. He was awarded the European Tour Rookie of the Year for finishing as the highest-ranked rookie in the Race to Dubai. However, his award caused a stir among fellow European Tour pros, who felt that it should've gone to a more committed member of the tour. Outside the majors and WGCs, Rahm had played just four regular season European Tour events.
2018
Rahm started 2018 by finishing runner-up eight strokes behind Dustin Johnson at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Kapalua, Hawaii.
Later in the month, Rahm won the CareerBuilder Challenge after a sudden death playoff with Andrew Landry, for his second career PGA Tour victory. After matching scores on the first three extra holes, Rahm prevailed with a birdie on the fourth extra hole. The win lifted Rahm to a career high 2nd in the world rankings. This made it four wins in just 38 professional starts for Rahm - a ratio bettered only by Tiger Woods in the past 30 years.
In his short professional career, Rahm has become renowned for his fiery on-course temper, which came to the fore during the final round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, where he slammed his club into the ground.
Amateur wins
- 2010 Spanish Junior/Boys Championship
- 2011 Copa Baleares, Campeonato de Madrid Absoluto
- 2012 Campeonato de España Junior Y Boys, Campeonato Absoluto País Vasco, Bill Cullum Invitational
- 2014 ASU Thunderbird Invitational, Campeonato de España Absoluto, Bill Cullum Invitational, Eisenhower Trophy (individual title)
- 2015 Duck Invitational, ASU Thunderbird Invitational, NCAA San Diego Regional, Campeonato de España Absoluto, Tavistock Collegiate Invitational
- 2016 ASU Thunderbird Invitational, Pac-12 Championships, NCAA Albuquerque Regional
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Professional wins (5)
PGA Tour wins (2)
PGA Tour playoff record (1-0)
European Tour wins (3)
- The DP World Tour Championship is also a Rolex Series tournament.
Results in major championships
LA = Low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Summary
- Most consecutive cuts made - 3 (twice, current)
- Longest streak of top-10s - 1 (current)
Results in World Golf Championships
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
PGA Tour career summary
a Rahm was an amateur through the 2016 U.S. Open.
* As of 21 January 2018
Team appearances
Amateur
- Jacques Léglise Trophy (representing Continental Europe): 2011
- Bonallack Trophy (representing Europe): 2012 (winners)
- Palmer Cup (representing Europe): 2014 (winners), 2015
- Eisenhower Trophy (representing Spain): 2014 (individual winner)
Professional
- World Cup (representing Spain): 2016
References
External links
- Official website (in Spanish) (in English) (in Basque)
- Jon Rahm at the European Tour official site
- Jon Rahm at the PGA Tour official site
- Jon Rahm at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
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