Jon Rahm emerges with two brilliant shots at the start of the PGA Championship

An eagle from 90 meters and a putt from 17. Those two brilliant shots lit up Jon Rahm’s first day at the PGA Championship, the second major of the season, at the Aronimink course in Philadelphia. The Basque player posted a -1 score after a tough round that started off on the wrong foot. At his start on hole 10, the second shot, off the green, fell short and returned to his feet, resulting in a wake-up bogey . Aronimink soon showed the difficulty of those highly undulating greens, the best defense of a course that, stripped of many of the trees that once protected it, is favorable terrain for long hitters.

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Rahm strung together pars until another missed green on 1, the start of his second lap around the course, until on 2 he made that supersonic hole-in-one from 90 meters that erased all deficit. Another long-range shot after the first albatross of his career, at last year’s LIV in Virginia, a good tune-up. A short missed putt on 7 gave way to the second resurrection, a bingo from 17 meters on the par three 8 to then squeeze the par five 9 and finish under par.

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David Puig, with many kilometers in his legs in recent weeks, posted +1 and Ángel Ayora, a debutant in a major, +2. Much worse was the round for Bryson DeChambeau, sunk with +6, and Rory McIlroy, who finished with four consecutive bogeys: +4.

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