Hours Before 2023 PGA Championship, Jon Rahm Makes an Honest Confession About His Tormenting Past

The 2023 PGA Championship will be played from 18th May to 21st May, and at its recent press conference in New York, a favorite to win owing to his Masters win last month, Jon Rahm, got candid and made an honest confession about his past game failures which still haunt him.

Despite his young age, the PGA Tour Pro has added numerous accolades to his name, but there was a time when the Spaniard was not in his best form, which ultimately affected his game and made him feel low and unsure about himself.

Jon Rahm reveals the rough years of his golf career

At the conference, the 2023 Masters winner was asked: “a game of ups and downs throughout a career, what’s the worst down you’ve ever had?” To which the 28-year-old made an honest admission of having a rough couple of years. 

“I would say somewhere between — somewhere maybe in 2018, ’19 I didn’t have my best stuff. Some people might say part of last year, as well. I wouldn’t think so.” He confessed. “But yeah, ’18, ’19 would have been it.” 

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When further asked about what happened, he replied “I just didn’t play as well as I would have liked.” Well, it certainly takes a gut to admit one’s failures and mistakes.

Penalties and uncalculated moves affected Rahm’s game

In 2018, Rahm was given a one-stroke penalty at the PGA Championship when the top of his shoe touched his ball, something any player wants to avoid. In the same year, he scored his lowest PGA Score, 10-under-par 62. Then in 2019, Rahm also lost at the Players Championship. Despite sane advice from his caddie Adam Hayes, who urged him not to make the shot, he paid no heed and attempted to make a narrow shot that would cover bunkers, water bodies, and trees. A move which was called “baffling” by the Golf channel.

Of course, he didn’t make it and Rory McIlroy walked away as the winner of said event. The Spaniard later confessed that he was “quite a ways off.” Rahm is also known to have a temper and on several occasions did not react to his mistakes well. And there have been incidences of him cursing and hitting his club too.

Surely these past mistakes have stuck with him, but he has learned from them and come out the other end as a better athlete. Rahm has lately improved his game for sure. And his winning the recent 2023 Masters Championship is ample proof of it. 

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