Jon Rahm Is the Hole-In-One King This Week

Jon Rahm may have just accomplished one of the greatest holes-in-one of all time. And it was during the week of the famed Masters. But it doesn’t count.

Yesterday, Jon Rahm played a practice at Augusta National to get ready for the Masters tournament that starts tomorrow. The Masters this year is the last of the four majors in golf. On the par-three 16th hole, which is about 175 yards in length, there is a small lake that begins at the teeing ground and extends along the left side of the green. The green sort of have two levels which can cause some putts to have enormous breaks.

Rahm decided to have some fun. On the 16th hole, he teed off way over on the left side of the teeing ground so that he had a line across more of the water. He then swung a long iron very easily and seriously de-lofted the club head at impact. Jon actually does that a lot in his normal swing, so it wasn’t very difficult for him to do as it would be for most of the Touring pro golfers. It caused the ball to take off so low that, due to backspin, the ball skipped many, many times across the water. The ball then exited its watery path to bounce and roll across remaining short portion of the fairway and onto the green. The ball then rolled up onto the severely angled slope on the right-middle side of the green. The ball had really slowed down at this point and was breaking way right-to-left. It then picked up speed and rolled down the slope, right into the hole. The must have broke left twenty or thirty feet. One or more persons took a video of the amazing shot. It can now be viewed on the internet.

Not only that, Rahm played in the three-par nine hole contest Monday, the previous day. It is a fun event in itself. And he made a hole-in-one there as well. Two holes-in-one two days in succession–not bad. Rahm is on a roll. Let’s see if he can continue this streak when the real competition begins, tomorrow.

Long-hitting Jon Rahm certainly is a favorite this week on the long fairways on rolling hills that slice through the Georgia pines. But there won’t be any azaleas and dogwoods in bloom this week. I don’t know about the magnolias. So, Augusta National will not be displaying its springtime beauty. But it will still present one of the greatest challenges in the game for the cream of the crop who play the game so well.