He regained number one in the world golf rankings by beating American Scottie Scheffler and Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy
Rahm put on the green jacket at the hands of Scheffler, winner in 2022
The Spanish Jon Rahm, brilliant winner of the Augusta Masters, the second major of his professional career, regained number one in the world golf ranking by beating the American Scottie Scheffler and the Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy.
Rahm put on the green jacket at the hands of Scheffler, winner in 2022, after ending the complicated weekend that culminated on the day in which Severiano Ballesteros, the first Spaniard to win in Augusta, would have turned 66.
Victory at the 87 Masters places him at the top of the world list with 10.86 average pointsfor Scheffler’s 10.56, tenth this Sunday, and McIlroy’s 8.78, who could not make the cut after the second day.
On March 13, Scheffler had taken number one from the Spanish player after winning The Players, a tournament of which the ‘León de Barrika’ had to retire due to gastroenteritis. He now recovers it in style after achieving his second ‘big’.
Rahm also leads the classification of the FedExCup, the American circuit table, after his fourth victory of the course, with 2,631 points, with Scheffler also second, with 1,844, and Max Homa third with 1,801.
American Patrick Cantlay, who he lost his chances to be in the first places in the last roundremains fourth (7.11) ahead of Australian Cameron Smith (5.81) and his compatriot Xander Schauffele (5.79), who move up one place and drop Max Homa (5.74) to seventh place.
While the American Will Zalatoris (down at the last minute) and the Norwegian Viktor Hovland, seventh this Sunday, remain eighth and ninth, respectively, the American Sam Burns rises to tenth place and Justin Thomas drops from eighth to twelfth, who he shared a match with Rahm the first two rounds and that he could not make the cut.
Sergio García, the other Spanish participant in the Masters along with José María Olazábal, He was not in the final two days either and fell from position 161 to 166while Adri Arnaus descends to square 81, Adrián Otaegui to 88 and Pablo Larrazábal to 97.