The Spanish John Rahm he sprained on the eighth hole and could not even sign par for the course (72) on the first day of the British Open held in Saint Andrews, where he finished with 73 shots, nine behind the leader, the American Cameron Young.
The one from Barrika started the course firmly, with two birdies in the first six holes, but the first round went awry with a bogey in the eighth.
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With the putter he was unable to close several holes below par and, in addition, he missed the thirteenth hole, a par four that he closed in five shots, and the fifteenth, in which he was again above four shots after a long putt in which he needed three strokes.
The feeling of frustration invaded him in the sixteenth, in which he wasted the birdie on the green, and the scenario could have been worse in the last, but he managed to save it to close the course with +1, although outside the cut. Rahm competed alongside the American Jordan Spieth, who is looking for his fourth major and signed a -1, and Harold Varner III, who equaled the Spanish.