SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — Jon Rahm loves the big stage, the big crowd, the big moment.
Jon Rahm , of Spain, stretches on the sixth green during a practice round for the men’s golf event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 30, 2024, at Le Golf National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. Jon Rahm , of Spain, chips onto the sixth green during a practice round for the men’s golf event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 30, 2024, at Le Golf National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.
He tied for seventh in the British Open two weeks ago, a bright moment in what otherwise was a dark year in the majors for Rahm. He narrowly made the cut at the Masters. He missed the cut in the PGA Championship. He hadThe Olympics would get his attention because a positive COVID-19 test the day before he was set to leave for Japan knocked him out of the Tokyo Games in 2021.
“We all know it’s a pretty big stage,” he said. “As a competitor, you want to win the biggest tournaments. It’s nice that this year we get an extra week to enjoy that.” He mostly remembers the first day, warming up next to a horseshoe-shaped grandstand that had 88 rows to the very top.
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