• Jon Rahm. He assures that they have "looked down on him for speaking Spanish" in the United States

The Spanish Jon Rahm was proclaimed champion of the PGA Tour Memorial tournament this Sunday by signing a 73-stroke card in the fourth and last round and adding 279 (-9) in total, 3 less than the local Ryan Palmer, who was second.

This Rahm title, the first of the 2020 season on the PGA Tour, is the eleventh in his professional career, allowing him to become the new number one in the world and the second Spaniard to achieve the top of golf since he did it in 1986 the legendary Severiano Ballesteros, his inspirer.

Rahm received 76 points for his Memorial win and added 460.82 to beat Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy (419), who had been in the lead for 11 consecutive weeks and 106 since he first arrived on March 4, 2012, the third best since it was established.

The 25-year-old Spanish player becomes the ninth European to reach the number one position in the history of the world ranking led by Tiger Woods with 683 weeks of leader, followed by the Australian Greg Norman (331).

Ballesteros is sixth with 61 weeks in first place.

Rahm, as expected, felt the pressure of the personal and historical significance of the final round of the Memorial tournament at the Muirfield Village Golf Club, designed and led by legendary American Jack Nicklaus.

But he knew how to control his emotions and the adverse conditions of strong wind and light rain to make an impeccable first half of two birdies.

Something that did not happen at the beginning of the second when he started it with a bogey and followed with another double in the eleventh hole to make a room in the fourteenth, which made the American veteran Ryan Palmer, his direct rival, stand alone three shots of the -10 that the Spanish had.

But Rahm was reunited with his best game on the sixteenth hole when he made the birdie that assured him the victory in the tournament and climbed to the top of the world ranking.

The Spanish player won a prize of more than one million dollars and 500 points for the FedEx Cup classification.

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