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Heading into Wednesday’s start of the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club in the Lone Star State, world No. 1 Jon Rahm has gone three PGA Tour starts without recording a top-10 finish.
The last time that happened? The Tour was coming out of its COVID-19, 13-week hibernation. In fact, since turning pro in 2015, the Spaniard hasn’t registered a top-10 result in three to five consecutive starts on the Tour just six times.
So Rahm is hardly worried when asked about his current form. In fact, he gets a touch irritated, especially if you bring up his putting.
“I’m kind of getting tired of answering the same question every single week,” Rahm said. “When you’re No. 1 off the tee and top 10 in strokes gained approach, my putting stats are not going to be top 20. It’s absolutely impossible unless I’m winning every single week by eight. Kind of how it goes.”
While the reigning U.S. Open champion ranks No. 1 in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee, No. 1 in Greens in Regulation (75.74 percent); and No. 4 in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green, he’s No. 139 in SG: Putting.
“Is it as good as it could be? No, but I think it shows in the stats worse than it actually feels just because I’m hitting so many greens and hitting it so good,” Rahm said. “Again, I feel like I’ve said it a few times. It’s not as bad as it looks. It feels a lot better than it looks.
“Maybe I haven’t gotten the results yet, but I’m not worried about it.”
Why should he be? The last time he went three starts without a top 10 he won the Memorial in his next start. And he loves match play.
In 2020, he teamed with Ryan Palmer to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans featuring Foursome and Four-Ball play. In the Ryder Cup, he’s 4-3-1 in two contests, including a singles win over Tiger Woods in 2018.
And in four starts in the Dell Technologies Match Play, he lost in the final to Dustin Johnson in 2017 and lost to Scottie Scheffler in the quarterfinals…
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