The Spanish Jon Rahm arrive at Augustan Masters after winning three titles in a brilliant start to the season, but he assured this Tuesday that “what you have done before this tournament means nothing”, in the press conference prior to the start of the competition, set this Thursday.
“The form doesn’t matter, what you’ve done before this tournament doesn’t really matter. There were a lot of cases where players who didn’t have their best year, but they come here and compete with confidence,” said Rahm, who arrived four times. among the top ten at Augusta in six starts.
I take Tiger Woods as an example of this, considering that “it seems that you have options every time you participate”.
“With Scheffler and McIlroy we push ourselves to be better. You can say we are the new ‘Big Three’ if we do it for at least five years. It could be the start, but the road is long.”
He expressed his enthusiasm for participating in a tournament in which “everything is iconic” and considered that this tournament adapts to all types of golf styles.
“There’s something particular about these courses, I think it allows you to play your own golf. It doesn’t require just one style. If you play well, you have options,” he said.
“Experience helps because you have an idea of how to play in all kinds of conditions, with wind… Every year there are different conditions, and having experience helps you,” he added.
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Rahm arrives at the first ‘big’ of the season after a brilliant year, in which he opened an intense fight with Scottie Scheffler and the northern irish Rory McIlroy for number one in the world.
“We motivate each other in a reciprocal way. I think we push each other to be better. You can say we’re the new ‘Big Three’ if we do it for at least five years. I think we have a ways to go before we’re comparable. It could be the beginning, but the road is long”, added Rahm, prudent in that sense taking into account the dimension of the well-known ‘Big Three’ of tennis that they form Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal y Roger Federer.
Jon Rahm trained Monday at the Augusta course with Sergio Garcia, one of 18 LIV Golf players who will compete in the Masters
The Spaniard arrives at the Masters after winning this year the Genesis Invitational, the Sentry Tournament of Champions and The American Express.
However, in recent weeks he had to withdraw from The Players due to a health problem and did not make it past the Match Play group stage.
“I live week by week, if you think that something like The Players can change the inertia of the season, I don’t think it’s the best. I go week by week,” he said.
Brilliant Spanish tradition
He also referred to the brilliant Spanish tradition in Augusta and the titles of José María Olazábal from 1994 and 1999.
“Unfortunately when (Olazábal) won his first title he was not born, and in 1999 he still had not started playing. My first memory is from 2004, but obviously I saw a lot of videos. It is something important to me. In 1999, Sergio (García) He had his first participation. I hope that history repeats itself and he can win”, he stated.
In Augusta, Rahm once again meets friends like Sergio García or Dustin Johnson, golfers who left the PGA last year to move to LIV Golf, a new circuit financed by the Saudi Arabian government whose main incentive is million-dollar prize money.
“Nothing changes, I don’t think it’s different for them either. When I saw Dustin and Sergio I almost forgot (that they left the PGA Tour). I haven’t seen them since the Open,” he said.
