The Spanish Jon Rahm brushed the title of the Farmers Insurance Open de Golf, a tournament belonging to the American PGA circuit that is played at the Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego (California), by completing the last round in 71 hits with a cumulative 274 and finish just one behind the leader, the American Luke List.
Rahm, current number one in the world, failed to win his second title in San Diego on the tournament’s 70th anniversary, where he won in 2017 with 65 shots at the closing, his first title on the PGA Tour.
The Spaniard, who kept his options until the last hole after failing at 1, 5 and 15 and pocketing birdies at 7, 8 and 9, He reached the last two holes of the north course two shots from the head.
With a birdie on the 17th he managed to reduce the advantage to a single impact, but the pair of 18 annulled their victory options. Rahm shared third place with American Cameron Tringale and Australian Jason Day.
the americans Luke List and Will Zalatoris forced the tiebreaker by equaling at 273 strokes (-15) after completing the 18 holes of the final round, which was decided with a List birdie in the first.
The golfer from Seattle surprised with a card of 66 strokes with seven birdies and a bogey in the 17th with which he managed to access the playoff after a comeback of 18 positions and was thus able to lift his first PGA title.
Zalatoris was close to victory after maintaining the provisional leadership until the end which he achieved on the third day. A bogey on hole one was the only mistake made by the American, who later held par throughout the course except for two birdies on holes 5 and 6.
The Farmers Insurance Open is the only PGA tournament with a Saturday final. The tournament has changed the usual dates, from Thursday to Sunday, to avoid a transmission conflict on Sunday with the NFL championship games. It is the first to finish on a Saturday since the 1996 Waste Management Phoenix Open.