• BMW PGA Championship.Jon Rahm vanishes on the last day

Jon Rahm premiered on Monday his brand new fifth place in the world ranking. It is no consolation to second place in the BMW PGA Championship, which escaped on Sunday. It is simply the consequence of what it means to be the most regular golf player on the planet. Since June 20, 2016, more than three years and three months have passed as a professional golf player; a total of 1,190 days in which he has played 82 valid tournaments for the PGA Tour or the European Tour. Of them, almost half (40) finished in the top-10 .

Rubbing in its statistics that 50% effectiveness at the time of finishing in the top 10 in each tournament that plays, their numbers are directly scandalous if we extrapolate them to tournaments only valid for the European Circuit: Rahm has played 12 European Tour tournaments in those who have managed to finish in the top ten on 10 occasions, accumulating four victories. The Basque is pulverized some of the golf records in the old continent, and if Severiano Ballesteros needed 52 tournaments to achieve his fifth victory in Europe, Jon was about to achieve it last Sunday in his 37th tournament (counting for this tournament statistics belonging to the World Championships and, of course, the Majors as European tournaments).

The Barrika player will have three more attempts in the remainder of 2019 to lift his fifth European trophy; this week he will compete in the cradle of golf within the exotic Dunhill Links Championship that runs through the Old Course in St. Andrews. Then, he will participate in Kingbarns in ProAm format (playing with an amateur) and, finally, the following week, he will return to Spain to defend the title in the Open of Spain in the Madrid Club de Campo (first week of October).

Six week break

"I really want the tournament to come and play at home," he acknowledged at Wentworth last week, although he admits that excessive commitments, many of them advertising, at home is a problem. "I would like to attend to everyone, talk to all the fans, sign all the autographs, but it is impossible, I have to be a bit selective, because I am competing and I want to win," Rahmbo admits. After the Spanish appointment, Jon will rest for six weeks, the longest streak in these years of career in which he will be away from the golf courses. "I think that since I was 13 years old I have not been competing for six weeks, but I need it, it's a good time," he confirmed this week.

The third week of November will close its calendar in the final tournament of the season in Dubai , where it will try to win the Race To Dubai (the regularity race of the European Circuit). Right now he occupies the second position, stepping on the heels of the leader, the Irishman Shane Lowry . After so much competition, the time will come for a very special celebration: his wedding with the American Kelley , a companion of Arizona State who dedicated himself to the javelin throwing and with whom he maintains a relationship since he began his successful university career. The truth is that in depth reviewing its amazing numbers, the 2019 season has clearly been the most prolific in positions in the top ten for the Spanish golfer; 23 tournaments played and 16 times ending in the top 10 positions. Hero World Challenge (1st), Sentry Tournament of Champions (8th), Desert Classic (6th), Farmers Open (5th), Phoenix Open (10th), Genesis Open (9th), Valpar Championship (6th), The Masters (9th) , Zurich Classic (1st), US Open (3rd), St. Jude (7th), Northern Trust (3rd), vBMW Championship (5th), Estrella Damm Valderrama (2nd), Irish Open (1st) and BMW PGA Championship (2nd) ). Almost nothing.

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