Lest you think this is a media-driven story or a narrative that will shadow the championship in perpetuity, know it’s one both sides – players and management – acknowledge.
Rahm isn’t the only big name to visit the venue recently. Two weeks ago Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas teed it up at Winged Foot en route to Boston for the Northern Trust.
If this betting slip is real – and we're not sure what would motivate anyone to make up such a thing – then this person successfully picked the winners of the PGA Tour's BMW Championship, the European Tour's ISPS HANDA UK Championship, and the Korn Ferry Tour Championship.
Jon Rahm and Dustin Johnson traded dramatic fist pumps to end the BMW Championship. The most meaningful celebration, however, belonged to Mackenzie Hughes.
We’ve all done it before. Your ball is on the green, and you pick it up without marking it first. It’s one of the more common rules breaches in amateur golf.
Rahm also said he wants to play at least one PGA Tour event this northern autumn so he doesn’t fall too far back on that tour’s season-long points race.
Jon Rahm has been open about his battle to control his frustrations. But on Friday at the PGA Championship, his emotions may have got the better of him.
