• Golf: Jon Rahm's 20 meters of glory

Jon Rahm

not only knows how to win, he also wins for the News.

His 22-meter putt from Sunday to Monday on the first play-off hole of the PGA BMW Championship has been around the world.

Its exhibition on the last day played at the Olympia Fields Country Club has opened the news and aroused admiration for one of the most fit Spanish sportsmen of the moment and for the curiosity that golf arouses in these disconcerting times of pandemic.

It's like that impossible basket in the last second to finish a game or a Chilean goal in stoppage time.

Jon Rahm's career takes just over four years and already has 11 victories, multimillion-dollar economic figures and a

bunch of blows to remember

, those immortal for YouTube followers.

"I would not say that it has been the most emotional blow of my career," Rahm answered in a virtual press conference to the Spanish media.

"I would stick with the Torrey Pines eagle putt in 2017, or the 17 in Paris with which I beat

Tiger Woods

in the Ryder Cup."

Rahm won his first title in January 2017, in the city of San Diego, and he did so with a 21-meter putt on the 18th green at Torrey Pines on the last day of the championship played there.

The first of the explosions of jubilation in the career of the promising Spanish golfer once again monopolized the covers of the sports sections.

In September 2018, John Rahm fulfilled a dream;

debut in a Ryder Cup. The event, held at the

Golf National in Paris

, brought together a constellation of stars in the American team.

For many it was one of the strongest teams in the history of the competition.

Rahm didn't get off to his best start to that Ryder Cup - two consecutive defeats brought him to the bench on the eve of decisive singles matches.

As fate would have it, Tiger Woods was his rival and Jon culminated a historic victory with his putt on the 17th hole. A simple five-foot stroke that would not go down in history for its spectacular nature, but for the meaning of a victory at the reach of very few and a

hyperbolic celebration

.

As soon as Rahm came out of ecstasy, he rushed over to Tiger Woods and apologized for his disproportionate reaction.

Along the way, there were shots like the approach he hit from behind on the 18th hole of the 2017 PGA Championship, in Charlotte, or

the hole in one made in Mexico

this season.

Last Sunday's putt occupies a place on the podium of the most special shots in the career of the Barrika-born player.

I don't have a set method that you can teach.

I am a sensation player.

I grew up on golf courses with

steep greens

, so steep putts are something I enjoy, like, and feel comfortable reading.

It came out perfect, "he explained yesterday to journalists.

However, Rahm wanted to deepen the preparation of the famous shot: “When I stood behind the ball for the first time, I could see the first three quarters of the putt, they were quite constant from left to right.

And then the big slope would come and it would start to drop fast to the right and then at the end it would turn left towards the flag.

That is what I saw.

Then I went back to the ball,

visualized the point I wanted,

and made sure to put the ball there, so it would roll like it's supposed to. "

“For people who saw the movie 'The Legend of Bagger Vance', that putt is like when in the final scene of the movie

Matt Damon

and

Will Smith

see the light with a blow from the forest.

That light is where that shot is supposed to go, "added Jon Rahm to describe his movie shot, a birdie that is already part of the most spectacular moments in sport.

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