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Jon Rahm, great anecdote with an NFL star

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Jon Rahm made history this Sunday at the Augusta Masters after winning his second ‘major’ and his first ‘green jacket’ At the award ceremony for the most precious garment in the world of sport, the man from Barrika remembered all his surroundings and thanked his family and friends for their support.

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But there was also time for anecdotes. Rahm explained a curious experience he had in the previous days with Zach Ertz, a player for the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, in a conversation in which J.J. Watt. Jon, educated at the University of Arizona, lives there, remains very attached to the place where he grew up sportingly and personally in the United States, and has good friends in the area.

One of them is Ertz. “Thursday morning he texted me saying it was going to be a wonderful week. I hit the 1st hole and putt four,” Rahm recalled smiling at the jacket ceremony. “Thank you, Zach, don’t do it again,” the Spaniard joked at the time of his speech, also a time to release tension.

In fact, Ertz became a visionary, as Rahm, in effect, ended up sealing a wonderful week and winning the trophy. The one from Barrika will never forget the curious anecdote that became a prophecy of his victory in the Masters.

Jon Rahm Rodríguez is a Spanish professional golfer,5 current number 1 in the world. He was number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for sixty weeks, holding the all-time record as number one in that ranking. He started as a professional in 2016, the year in which he participated in the United States Open, which he would win only five years later, on June 20, 2021, being the first Spanish golfer to win this tournament.

In 2017 he was proclaimed champion of the San Diego Open, the Irish Open and the Dubai World Championship. On July 19, 2020, he won the Memorial Tournament (Ohio) and rose to number one in the PGA World Golf Rankings, unseating Rory McIlroy.

He is the twenty-fourth number one in history, the tenth European and the second Spanish after…

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Source : tennisworldusa

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