• American Express Rahm seals another victory in the most brilliant start of Spanish golf

Jon Rahm

is the fashionable athlete, the best golfer of the moment.

He has his life in Phoenix, along with his wife and his children

Kepa

and

Eneko

, both Americans.

However, he does not forget his roots.

He has put Barrika on the map and speaks of Spain in all his appearances.

He likes to win, he is obsessed with making history books and dreams of making golf a popular sport in Spain.

His winning streak of success contributes to all of this.

Two for two on the PGA Tour, and this week he will compete at Torrey Pines, his talisman course.

It was there that he won his first regular tournament, his first major, and where he celebrated his American wedding to

Kelley

.

The last golfer to start the year with two victories was, in 2017,

Justin Thomas

.

A few years ago in 2003.

Ernie Els

achieved the same feat, although the one who came closest to signing a historic triplet was

Tiger Woods

in his magical year 2000. He began his season winning in Hawaii and Pebble Beach, and was second in the Buick Invitational.

Rahm has within his grasp this week to mark another milestone in the history of modern golf.

After his two victories in his first two appearances, he aspires since Thursday to win three consecutive PGA Tour tournaments, an atypical domain in a sport like golf, where

the number 1 usually loses 90% of his tournaments

.

dizzying income

Gone are times gone by with less competition, where

Byron Nelson

, for example, set a record for posterity by winning eight consecutive tournaments, or Tiger's supernatural success rate numbers, when in his best years he averaged 27% wins. .

With his win this week, Rahm's data is close to

12% shooting, the second-best shooting percentage in modern golf history

.

The good game of these two victories has provided her with a succulent loot of 4.1 million dollars in 15 days of competition, ascending the all-time money list to 21st place, with

almost 40 million dollars won in prize money in the United States.

.

To this succulent figure we had to add the money earned in Europe and advertising contracts.

However, dollars have never been the motivation of the Spanish player, if not records.

In fact, his victory takes him to

nine victories on the PGA Tour, the same as Severiano Ballesteros

.

"Little Asterisk"

Rahm is just two wins away from matching

Sergio Garcia

, the most successful Spaniard on the other side of the Atlantic.

The Basque assesses having hunted down Seve with some reservations.

“Yeah, well, you should put a little asterisk next to that figure.

Seve did not play full time on the PGA Tour.

So the fact that he had nine wins is pretty spectacular.

I have been lucky enough to be able to follow in his footsteps in many of the things that he has done and if I ever get past some of them it will be incredible for me ».

His tribute to Ballesteros does not end there.

«My father started playing golf because of the Ryder Cup in 97 and Seve's captaincy.

That's basically why I'm here.

That's why Seve's legacy is so important to me.

When it started there were 30,000 licenses.

After his death, 300,000.

If I can make golf even more popular in Spain, I will be a happy man."

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