Jon Rahm tackles the Blue Monster this week as he prepares to chase a second inexperienced jacket.
The Spaniard spoke to reporters Wednesday forward of the LIV Golf Miami match at Trump Nationwide Doral, which earned its colourful nickname for its demanding 7,701-yard size and plentiful water hazards.
“Clearly Augusta is an entire totally different degree and so is the Blue Monster, however that is why I like this week,” Rahm stated. “It is such an excellent prep for a serious developing. I am wanting ahead to this week to hopefully see a few of these enhancements and are available into subsequent week with a transparent thoughts of what to do.”
Rahm, 30, has completed high six in every of the primary 4 occasions on the LIV Golf calendar, together with a T2 on the season-opening match in Riyadh. The Legion XIII captain ranks No. 2 within the particular person standings behind Chile’s Joaquin Niemann, whereas his workforce ranks No. 2 behind Fireballs GC.
“I am feeling good, yeah,” he stated. “I have been in a position to have quite a lot of good finishes, however I might say it hasn’t been what I might contemplate taking part in my greatest. I believe I’ve scored actually, rather well however with some degree of discomfort in some elements of my sport that I sort of must recover from to perform greater issues, proper, particularly speaking about main championships.
“I believe I am very near that if not over that. I believe particularly the previous few weeks, I have been taking part in actually good golf, feeling actually snug.”
Rahm tied for fourth at Miami final yr, ending 8-under par and three strokes behind winner Dean Burmester, who defeated Sergio Garcia in a playoff.
Rahm heads to Augusta subsequent week for the Masters, the place he adopted up his 2023 victory with a disappointing tie for forty fifth place final yr.
Though he has not gained a match since LIV Golf Chicago in September, the two-time main winner (2021 U.S. Open) will not be quick on confidence.
“I am all the time simply completely blindly assured in my talents,” Rahm stated. “I believe all of us up right here, each time we tee it up, we expect we’ll win, and that is why they’ve achieved quite a lot of what they’ve and every thing that they’ve. I am wanting ahead to seeing these adjustments that I am speaking about which have been there for the higher a part of a yr and a half, I simply have not gotten over that.”
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