Jon Rahm won the 121st US Open on Sunday at Torrey Pines and becomes the first Spanish player to do so. Jon Rahm lined up two entry birdies at 1 and 2 before conceding his only mistake of the day at 4 (bogey), with a third birdie of the day at 9 (par 5) coming to complete an incisive go....two last master strokes which allowed him to blow to -6 the title to the leader "Louis Oosthuizen".
However, a fortnight ago, in Dublin (Ohio), Jon Rahm learned, distraught and dejected that his test was positive for the coronavirus, an unpleasant news which cost him the victory at the Memorial Tournament, forced to give up before the last round while 'he was well in the lead. "I believe in karma," Jon Rahm almost laughed. After what happened, I stayed positive. I didn't know where it would take me. Then I was able to get out of the Covid protocol early enough to participate in The US Open, my parents were able to come here to Torrey Pines which is a special place for me, the planets aligned ... I knew the best was to come up ". It is indeed on this legendary coastline along the Pacific, north of San Diego, that Rahm won his first title on the PGA Tour in 2017 (Farmers Invitational).
It's also on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific that he proposed to his wife "Kelley" who gave birth to their first child "Kepa" in early April. “You have no idea what that means,” he whispered to his son as he celebrated his victory. A triumph that made him the fourth Spaniard to register his name in a Grand Slam tournament after Severiano Ballesteros (five times), Jose-Maria Olazabal (twice) and Sergio Garcia (once). And the icing on the cake is that he climbs back to the top of the world rankings, dethroning the American Dustin Johnson, who had to finish 15th to stay there but placed 20th. Jon Rahm had been world No. 1 for the first time, for a month in the summer of 2020. Without yet having a Major. He has magnificently rectified the situation.