Jon Rahm was in apparent ache at LIV Golf Houston.
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Jon Rahm hasn’t had the yr in 2024 he might have anticipated, and it may need taken a flip for the worst this weekend.
After a video of Rahm grimacing in ache after a swing through the first spherical of LIV Golf’s Houston occasion on the Golf Membership of Houston, the two-time main winner made it simply six holes into his second spherical Saturday.
Rahm made a brief par putt on the tenth gap (his sixth of the day) earlier than starting to shake arms along with his taking part in companions because the CW broadcast reported his withdrawal. LIV’s No. 2 participant on the season was even par on the day and three beneath for the event, 4 pictures again after he opened with 69 Friday.
On the seventh gap Friday, Rahm winced in clear ache after taking part in his method to the par-3. He made par on the outlet after which made 5 birdies offset by one double bogey.
His WD comes simply days earlier than he was set to be one of many favorites for subsequent week’s U.S. Open at Pinehurst. Rahm gained the 2021 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines for his first main title and added a second final yr on the Masters.
LIV Golf broadcaster Arlo White reported Rahm had been coping with a “lower in between his toes” and acquired therapy on Friday and earlier than the spherical on Saturday.
The 29-year-old Spaniard despatched shockwaves via the golf world when he selected to signal with LIV Golf in December after a four-win 2023 season, together with his victory at Augusta. In seven begins earlier than this week in 2024 for the breakaway PGA Tour rival league, Rahm hasn’t completed worse than tenth, however he has but to win both.
His ends in the primary two majors of the yr have additionally been disappointing, ending T45 in his title protection on the Masters and lacking the lower on the PGA Championship. Earlier than the PGA at Valhalla, Rahm had made 18 consecutive cuts in majors, the longest-active streak coming in.
Earlier than lacking the lower at Valhalla, he made headlines once more for claiming he nonetheless needed to be thought-about a member of the PGA Tour regardless of being suspended for becoming a member of LIV Golf firstly of the yr.
Jon Rahm’s curious PGA Tour remarks elevate eyebrows at PGA Championship
“See you guys maintain saying ‘the opposite aspect’ however I’m nonetheless a PGA Tour member, whether or not suspended or not,” the 2023 Masters winner mentioned. “I nonetheless wish to help the PGA Tour. And I believe that’s an essential distinction to make. I don’t really feel like I’m on the opposite aspect. I’m simply not taking part in there.”
Rahm’s feedback drew the ire of analysts on Golf Channel’s “Reside From” program.
“I wish to I wish to wring his neck via the tv,” mentioned Aaron Oberholzer. “I’m that mad, proper now. I’m that mad. I imply— and each participant in that locker room proper now, in the event that they watch that — on the PGA Tour — needs to be completely incensed with him.”
Now, the World No. 3’s standing for the yr’s third main at Pinehurst, the place as of this writing he was tied for the fourth-best odds at +1600, is unsure.
It is a growing story and will probably be up to date as new data turns into accessible.
