Once again, a poor warmup leads to a great round for Jon Rahm at Tour Championship

Once again, a poor warmup leads to a great round for Jon Rahm at Tour Championship
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ATLANTA – There was a lesson for every golfer in Jon Rahm’s second-round 63 Friday at the Tour Championship.

Rahm is no stranger to solid rounds at East Lake, following consecutive finishes inside the top 5 the last two years, but as he prepared for Day 2 this wasn’t shaping up to be another one of those weeks.

“It was quite the opposite,” Rahm said when asked if he began the day with a good range session. “I’m not a person that’s going to get in his head based on what happens on the range.”


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In fact, Rahm said he’s had some of his best rounds on the PGA Tour after not-so-great range sessions. In 2017 when he won his first Tour event at Torrey Pines, he said he had a particularly dreadful warmup.

“I think I shanked two 9-irons in a row and then I went to play a flawless round of golf [65],” he shrugged.

He explained it was a similar situation when he won the Irish Open later that same year. “Didn’t hit it great on the range; went out and shot 7 under, played amazing golf,” said Rahm, who is alone in third place and six shots off the lead.

The lesson? A warmup is just that.





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