2023-07-21 20:20:56
Jon Rahm returned to suffer a lot on the second day of the British Open which is played at the Royal Liverpool Club and, although his performance improved compared to the first day, he finished with 70 strokes (one under par) but an overall of 144 (+2). A result that places him 12 strokes behind the outstanding leader of the tournament after the first two days, the American Brian Harman, the man of the day with a spectacular card of 65 strokes.
After the setback suffered on the first day, Rahm was destined to start a comeback to have some chance of winning, although his second day was not brilliant either. El León de Barrika complied par on the first four holes until in the fifth and sixth, with two birdies, his serious countenance changed to a more natural one showing more confidence in the blows.
The relief from this improvement was short-lived because on holes nine and ten, weighed down by bad shots to the grass, he committed two bogeys that put him back at +3, walking on the edge for the cut. The second part of the tour was just as irregular than the first because if he started with that bogey in the ten he finished with another one in the 18 that, although they allowed him to sign a card of 70 strokes (one under par), it only helped him to climb a bit in the classification with a total of 144 strokes (2 over par).
putting problems
“I have done under par, which is complicated in a course like this. I will remember the four putts I have missed from four feet, which is something you can’t afford in a big, but I think I’ve maxed out my round. Obviously my game leaves a bitter taste for how the last one went,” said Rahm, at a press conference, alluding to the bogey on the last hole, when he missed a short putt that seemed easy
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The other six Spaniards were left out of the cut, in the case of Alejandro Larrazabal by one stroke after a 74-stroke card on the second day. The amateur Josele Ballester finished with +5 both days, Nacho Elvira with +7, and Alejandro Cañizares (+12), Jorge Campillo (+14) and Adrià Arnaus, due to their physical problems, with +21.
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