“Since last August I’ve felt like the best player in the world again. I recently won three titles between the Spanish Open, the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai and the Sentry Tournament in Hawaii. Yet I remained in fifth place in the world ranking.
If they hadn’t changed the points system, I would have been damn close to No. 1, Rory McIlroy right now.”
Jon Rahm, statements
After his triumph on the PGA Tour in Hawaii, with a last show round in which he recovered seven strokes from a disadvantage, Jon Rahm returns to questioning the points calculation system of the world rankings, already recently branded by the Spaniard as “ridiculous”.
Success at the Sentry Tournament, in a high tournament of the PGA Tour, didn’t even allow him to overtake the American Patrick Cantlay, fourth in the OWGR. Hence the new outlet of the Basque golfer. He attended Arizona State University and won 11 varsity tournaments, second only to Phil Mickelson who earned 16 titles.
In 2015 he participated as an amateur at the Phoenix Open, finishing fifth [4]. On April 1, he took first place in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and held it for 25 weeks, then regained the position to hold it for another 35 weeks.
He thus qualified for the U.S. Open and the Open Championship the following year: in the first…
