Rahm brought out his winning instinct from hole 1, where he started with a birdie and
the key to his day was not making a single mistake to sign a clean card with six birdies
.
The only moment where par was in jeopardy was the 13th hole, where he had to hole a four-meter putt to avoid stumbling.
And that from the tee, the third day of the Spaniard, he followed the erratic trend of the whole week and only hit five fairways, in total he has 15 out of 42 possible, however he is the fourth best player in the tournament with the most greens in regulation (reached 37 of 54 in these three days).
Although the difference on the third day was the approach shots, and it is that Rahm's leap in quality in 120-meter shots towards the hole has been key this season to achieve his spectacular results.
To this we must add the solidity of his putter.
Rahm's game was like a roller that ended up destroying his rivals, Max Homa, the defending champion, kept up the pulse until the 15th hole,
where he accumulated two consecutive errors that made him finish the day three shots behind 'León de Barrika'.
Neither did Keith Mitchell put up a fight with the FedEx Cup leader and finished third to four shots.
Rahm closed the day with the longest putt of the day, some eight meters for birdie that finished undermining the morale of his rivals.
Only 18 holes separate him from a new victory
, which would be his third of the year, the consequence of winning would be to recover the number one in the world.
He would also become the player to achieve the third fastest win in a season since Johnnie Miller in 1975 and the fourth non-American golfer to reach 10 wins on the PGA Tour before the age of 30.
Something previously only achieved by Gary Player, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day).
In addition, Rahm accumulates 171 strokes under par in his last 10 tournaments.
Rahm's huge 65 shots were only bettered on this third day by Denny McCarthy (64 shots) and the third best lap of the day was, among others, Tiger Woods' 67.
The Californian, who made the cut 'in extremis', showed solidity from the tee and was much more successful on the greens, only bogeying on hole 7 and leaving an eagle on hole 1 (his tenth of the day) to the memory.
After a monumental outing, Woods hit a memorable iron from 175 meters, the ball went over the hole to leave a three-foot eagle putt.
The anecdote of the day happened after the 17th hole, in the stands a 9-year-old girl named Madelyn Quinn exhibited a poster where she had described her 'wish list', Madelyn was born with a severe coronary problem that made her undergo a heart transplant In his first year of life to survive, precisely the first wish on his list was crossed out, it literally said
"to have a transplanted heart"
, the second on the list was "to meet Tiger" and the third, "to play Augusta".
Tiger noticed the banner and went straight to greet the girl and gift her one of her gloves and incidentally put the second 'stick' on her wish list.
Madalyn, an accomplished golfer for her age, now only has to play Augusta National.
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