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It's been more than nine days, nearly 235 hours since Jon Rahm left Augusta National physically and mentally annihilated. But with a new green jacket, the most coveted in the sport. He got in the car with Kelley, his wife, with just the energy to get home, hang his precious garment in the closet and get into bed.

Rahm settled on Tuesday a small outstanding debt: talk to the group of Spanish journalists who came to cover the Masters, and some more. He did it by videoconference before the initiative of the PGA Tour, circuit where next week he will defend title in Mexico. The American Circuit will go one step further: it will premiere for the first time in its history the narration in Spanish. It had always been done in English. The Rahm era has changed a lot of things.

Jon, with a tired gesture on the other side of the screen, dresses casually. Without his green jacket.

Do you already know when you will wear the green jacket for the first time officially? No, you have to ask permission. They set their rules... Although it would be amazing to take it in San Mamés.

Rahm, asked by EL MUNDO, then tells the most special moments of the historic Sunday in which he won the Masters of Augusta.

Let's go back to Sunday, April 9. He leaves the field exhausted, at the stroke of 12 o'clock at night. Once you flee the hustle and bustle and find solitude, when do you begin to be aware of what you have achieved? I was with Kelley in the car, wearing the green jacket. I got home, left it in the closet and got into bed. I couldn't take it anymore. That day began shortly before five in the morning... Mentally and physically, the body did not give me for more. I slept awfully because of the adrenaline. The next morning everything came to me. I was in the room, in bed with Kelley. It would be 8.30 or 9.00 in the morning and I saw a picture from Golf Digest. It was a set-up on the green of the 18th hole, where Seve and I were shaking hands. When I saw that photo, it all came to me at once. I started crying. I looked at Kelley, again the picture. And when she looked back at me, her face was already full of tears. There was so much emotion for what had happened... That's when I realized what I had achieved and what it meant.

Faced with questions from the Spanish press, Rahm digs a little deeper into his triumph: "The family helps a lot. Since January he comes to all tournaments, and this helps to separate golf from normal life. When I wake up, I'm with the kids. I'm a father. I have a great time and I don't think about golf. When I'm with them they don't care if I've played well or badly. It helps me to forget, to concentrate on the children. Also to change my focus quickly."

One of the most special moments of Augusta's week was last Tuesday, when he had the opportunity to enjoy a practice lap with two champions, Sergio García and José María Olazábal.

"José María told me that Seve was an artist. I saw gaps more than anyone else. Phil Mickelson wrote to me during the week to tell me that we would have many moments in the dressing room of the champions, "recalls the Spaniard, who was able to visit this exclusive stay after his victory. Although Rahm has made a request to the rectors of the Masters: "Augusta is not a place where you can ask for much and they listen to us. They have certain rules. They took me to the champions' locker room and I saw that Chema and Sergio were together, and that Seve had Schwartzel in the locker [next door]. I told them that it would be an honor to be able to share it with him and to put the Spaniards together. I asked for it. I requested that they keep Spanish history together."

Another tradition indicates that the champion must donate a stick to the club: "I will leave, without any doubt, iron eight. If you have to decide a stroke with which I won the tournament was the second of the 14 with that stick. I don't understand why so little has been said about that coup."

As for the next goals, Rahm thinks about the Grand Slam. And if he could only raise his arms in one more major, he is also clear: "If I can only win one, with the PGA I would close the Spanish Grand Slam; but, personally, I would choose the Open without any hesitation. It's the birthplace of golf."

Although Rahm continues. And he feeds his ambition: "I would love to win Olympic gold, FedEx, Players... It's doable, but difficult too. In my career I have achieved things that many thought I could not achieve. I always believed."

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