MADRID, 20 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish golfer Jon Rahm will continue playing the rest of the weekend in the PGA Championship, the second ‘major’ of the season that is being played on the Oak Hill course, after reacting on the second day and making the cut together Pablo Larrazabal, although both far from the trio of leaders.
Barrika’s man had not had a good debut in the tournament and his continuity had been complicated after signing an initial card of 75 shots, five below par, but this Friday he took the pulse of the field better and improved with 68, a – 2 that keeps you alive.
The winner of the Augusta Masters started the day well with a ‘birdie’ on hole 2, the only one in the first part of the course where he could not beat the course more. He was best on the second nine holes and despite the ‘bogey’ of 12, he got the best golf out of him to chain three consecutive ‘birdies’ below.
Rahm was excited, but his joy stopped on the 16th hole, where he delivered another ‘bogey’ that somewhat tarnished his round and left him four over par, nine strokes behind the solid Scheffler, number two in the world and one of the four players who has managed to drop both days from 70 strokes.
Along with Rahm, a Pablo Larrazabal also made the cut, who had the path immersed in the Basque since from his optimal 69 shots on Thursday he went to 75 on Friday, the product of five ‘bogeys’, to also stay with +4. Adrián Otaegui and Adri Arnaus had less luck, already out of this PGA Championship after signing 70 and 76 strokes, respectively.
At the top of the table is a three-way tie at five under par and joined by Scheffler are Canada’s Corie Conners and Norway’s Viktor Hovland, who are two shots ahead of Americans Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Soh.