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Spanish golfer Jon Rahm won his 3rd PGA Tour rubric successful six starts with a stunning comeback to overturn a seven-shot shortage astatine the Tournament of Champions successful Hawaii.
The satellite No. 5 adjacent bogeyed Sunday’s archetypal spread but went connected a singular tally to decorativeness the last circular with a 10-under-par 63.
Rahm ended the tourney 27-under-par to bushed two-time large victor Collin Morikawa by 2 shots.
Morikawa went into Sunday’s last circular with a six-shot pb implicit the chasing pack, but 3 bogeys connected the backmost 9 gave him a one-under-par 72 and allowed Rahm to claw backmost the deficit.
“I needed to play bully and helium needed to marque a mates mistakes,” Rahm said, per the BBC.
“If you told maine astatine the opening of the circular aft that bogey I was going to bash what I did, I don’t cognize if I would person believed you.”
It was the eighth PGA Tour triumph of Rahm’s vocation and the 28-year-old volition spell down arsenic the victor of the Tour’s archetypal “designated” lawsuit with an elevated purse, introduced successful a bid to vie with LIV Golf’s rise.
It is the archetypal of 17 events this play – including the 4 majors – that volition person the designated lawsuit tag, with a full purse of $15 cardinal and Rahm earning $2.7 cardinal for his victory.
Most of the remaining designated tournaments volition person full purses of astatine slightest $20 million, with the PLAYERS Championship boasting an eye-watering $25 cardinal purse.
While Sunday proved to beryllium a time of delight for Rahm, Morikawa was near disappointed and frustrated with his last circular performance, contempt scooping up $1.5 cardinal for his second-place finish.
“You enactment truthful hard and you springiness yourself these opportunities,” 2021 Open victor Morikawa said, per the BBC.
“I conscionable made 3 mediocre swings, really, astatine the incorrect times. It’s ne'er a bully clip to enactment a mediocre plaything connected it, but sometimes, it works retired and these ne'er worked out.
“I don’t cognize what I’m going to larn from this week, but it conscionable didn’t look similar it was that acold off. It truly wasn’t. Yeah, it sucks.”
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