Jon Rahm, after a closing 66 at the 2021 Masters Tournament, gets back to his wife Kelley that gave birth to their first child Kepa on April 3.
Jon Rahm, statements"I'm excited to get home and change a few diapers and let Kelley sleep a few more hours. I'm extremely happy. Let's say the disappointment after the round lasts a lot less. I finish the round and I get a picture from Kelley and no matter what I do, if I shoot 80 or 65, it's the same feeling. You kind of forget and I'm a parent again. It's great moment in our life. At 26 to have the life we have, it's incredible. So yeah, it does lighten the mood a lot more. It might not be as intense as it would have been in another week, which is only beneficial."
"It’s almost like a shoulda-coulda-woulda, right? Each day I’ve played better golf. First three days I just couldn’t get anything going. It’s golf. What am I going to do? I also showed up here Wednesday, haven’t hit a shot in six days, very little sleep. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting to play as good as I did early on. It’s still a top ten at a Major with a great round on a Sunday, 15 straight rounds of even par or better here. Clearly I like the place. I play good here. My year is coming up. Let’s hope it’s soon".
Hideki Matsuyama wins the Augusta Masters and enters the history of golf as the first Japanese to win a major. The 29-year-old won the green jacket of the 85th edition of the US tournament yesterday, finishing at -10 on the course of the Augusta National Golf Club, in Georgia. The Japanese beat the American Will Zalatoris by one stroke and the other two Americans Xander Schauffele and Jordan Spieth by three, winning his sixth Pga Tour title.
His Augusta National debut came in 2011, a month after a tragedy hit his hometown. Returning from commong training in Australia, Matsuyama found the area around his university, Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai, devastated. The Japanese initially decided not to go to Georgia to play the tournament of champions despite an invitation for winning the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship. But it was his staff and his family who changed his mind. The result? He established himself as the best among amateurs and was awarded the Silver Cup.
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