Jon Rahm says something happened at The Open Championship he can’t remember from his entire career

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Jon Rahm has shared what he did at The Open Championship he can never remember doing in his entire career, with the Spaniard producing his best major championship finish of the year at Royal Troon.

Jon Rahm appeared to be the player who may fly from the middle of the pack and put himself in contention during the final round of The Open Championship, with the 29-year-old making birdie on his first three holes at Royal Troon.

However, Rahm would then par the next three holes, which included two par fives. A birdie on seven would then be cancelled out by a bogey on 11 after he needed to take a drop following a wayward drive.

Rahm needed a performance like the one at Troon after a turbulent year in the majors for the 2023 Masters champion. He missed the cut at the PGA Championship before sitting out the US Open due to injury.

Jon Rahm amazed by what happened at The Open Championship

And it seems that Rahm was fairly happy with his performance – but for one problem he faced all week in South Ayrshire. Speaking to Sky Sports (broadcast on 21/7; 17:20), the LIV Golf star suggested that he could not quite believe how he was unable to take advantage of the par fives.

“That front nine, it wasn’t helping as much as I thought it was going to be, a lot of right to left holes, a lot of holes where you could hold it against the wind and take advantage of that. The back nine obviously, gets a little trickier, the one really bad swing I made today really cost me an unplayable shot on 11. And the difference for me, besides that hole, I gave myself plenty of chances, I just didn’t hit the irons close enough, I didn’t strike it quite as good as I did on the front nine, and I found myself with a lot of long putts. The only birdie chance I had was 16, but I did make two lengthy putts on 17 and 18 to save par, so I guess it evens out,” he said.

“Throughout the whole week, I can’t remember the last time I played this good as a pro and birdied zero par fives. That’s the one think that keeps sticking in my head and I really wanted to make the one on 16 because I feel like that’s where I’m losing all the strokes I needed.”

A much-needed performance in the final major of the year

Rahm will not be the only player scratching their head as they leave Troon this week, with the course dismissing any notion that it was going to be easy to negotiate. Of course, few will forget what happened on Saturday when the leaderboard bunched together and perfectly set the stage for Sunday.

But Rahm will be able to take a lot of positives from his performance in what has been a difficult first year since moving to LIV. He has not won an individual title despite a number of superb performances throughout the season, and he had had a very poor major year.

However, he reminded everyone of his quality for the most part on Sunday at Troon, and that will give him a big boost.