What a start and end of the first round at Bay Hill by Jon Rahm, leader with 65 shots and two ahead of the second placed at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on the PGA Tour in Orlando (his 138th tournament on the PGA Tour): three consecutive birdies on the first three holes, and a spectacular finish with an eagle-birdie-birdie. Hat. And that he missed a lot from the tee, with few fairways taken, but again with the putt he was lethal.
In his last four victories on the American circuit, the Basque started the tournaments with rounds of 64 or 65 shots. Eagle's putt on the 16th hole was his first at Bay Hill in 88 holes played on this course and his 10th on the PGA Tour this season.
Winner of three tournaments this season: Tournament of Champions, Amex and Los Angeles, the last player to win four before the Augusta Masters was Johnnie Miller in 1974. Remember that this is his second participation in the event whose promoter was the legendary 'Arnie': finished tied for 17th in 2022 with laps of 72, 70, 74 and 74.
The Number One in the world is going out and everything goes out for him. He has once again taken the lead, and surely the big challenge for him this week is to add his eleventh victory on the PGA Tour, and first! in Florida. In the mixed zone, the man from Barrika summed up his performance: "I started the round in a big way, with good swings and hence the three birdies. Then I had a bad stretch and the putt for par (very long) at 15 was key because I woke up, then the eagle arrived on the 16th and on the 17th and 18th I hit the two best irons of the day". He then recalled that on these greens "you have to be careful with your speed because it's very possible to pass one or two meters".
Jon spoke again about the 15 putt to save par from 10 meters: "Huge. I took my worst swing of the day and ended up having to putt more than 10 meters for par. So to do that with a hole to A birdie around the corner is always important. I accepted the bogey...I was left in a bad position after the drive and I thought that a '5' was not a bad result. So sometimes it comes out expensive", explained the Biscayan .
Jon Rahm, statements"We played with very small margins and we took advantage of them", continued Rahm, who stressed that "I think I have played good golf, but it is not easy. The fairways are getting firmer and it is not easy to catch them. When you miss one, you go to the rough and you have to hope to be lucky with how the ball turned out to you. In between I've had a lot of birdie opportunities and I've made very good use of the three or four missed chances, the fairways and the greens. Even though I haven't made many birdies on the holes intermediates it's been a good round of golf.
Memorial, Genesis and now for Bay Hill... Bay Hill is a course that does not forgive and in which you have to be calm and patient when things go wrong. "You come out here and you know. You have to take it in stages. Obviously you have to put the ball on the fairway. Once you put it on the fairway, where can you be aggressive? That's what I think I did really well. You choose your battles and hopefully you can birdie the ones you choose," he added.
Comparing his performance this Thursday to last year, Jon said, "The only difference between some of my rounds last year and this one was the putting. I don't think I putt that many greens in four days here. And today I "I've done quite a few. From a good putt to a bad putt there's the smallest difference imaginable. Especially on these fast greens."
Asked if he liked the opening sequence of three birdies in a row or the finish with an eagle and two birdies more, he said that "I hit better quality shots in the first three, but that's just being picky. If I go by the difficulty of the holes, I think obviously the last three holes were better."
Asked what he would need to improve for the next three laps, he said: "Go back through the round and you'll see a lot of mistakes. I just took the chances to minimize the mistakes and turned a couple of tricky situations into very good results. It can always be better." , but it's the first day. Ask me on Sunday if I keep playing like this and I'll probably change my answer", he concluded, not before launching a final sentence: "It would be an honor to also be able to win the Arnold Palmer tournament, as I did in his with him Nicklaus or Tiger's, but there's still a lot left. Let's keep working, the season has started brilliantly, but we have to continue like now".
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