A volatile and hyper-competitive Spaniard in the mode of Seve Ballesteros, Jose Marie Olazabal, and Sergio Garcia, coming off a heartbreaking forced withdrawal because of COVID-19 Symptoms, after leading by six shots in the Memorial Tournament, Jon Rahm, embracing newfound humility, perseverance, patience, and a new son, wins the 121st United States Open Championship in historic fashion on Fathers Day, at the storied Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California.
A closing 67, matching the lowest round of the tournament, makes the 26-year old the first golfer from Spain to win a United States Golf Association Championship, something never achieved in the long history of USGA events and cements his place in Spanish Golf lore.
A stat-studded leaderboard on Sunday comprising many of the top ranked players in the world all took their shots at Rahm and the fabled South course at Torrey, only to fall back and falter on the back nine Sunday.
Only Louis Oosthuizen, coming off a second-place at the PGA last month could stay in the chase. he closed with a 71 to claim his sixth runner-up finish in major championships.
Harris English finished three strokes back to claim third.
Defending Champion Bryson DeChambeau, trying to become only the forth player since World War II to win consecutive titles, finished nine strokes back of Rahm.
With his 2-month-old son, Kepa and his wife Kelly greeting him on the finishing hole, Jon Rahm could not have had a better Fathers Day Gift than our National Championship.
I sat in on his final interview at the completion of play.
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