Jon Rahm had his best Phoenix Open performance ever, but still finished five strokes behind Scottie Scheffler in third place.
Back on the right fringe, Rahm stood in disbelief. Right hand on right hip, left hand gripping that fatal clubhead, using the iron to prop himself up. Right ankle crossed over the other. Eyes trained on the spot where his ball had once sat, wondering how, just how, it all went so wrong.
In the end, consecutive weekend 68s were good, but not good enough. Entering Saturday, Rahm and Scheffler had distanced themselves from the rest of the tournament’s biggest names. The stage, it seemed, was set for a one-on-one battle between two of the best players in the sport. The closest he came was the front stretch Sunday, when he birdied three of the day’s first six holes. That dropped Rahm to 14 under, one back of Scheffler and prompted the eventual champion to later say, “It was a good fight out there. Jon played pretty good on the front nine.”
But for him, this one stings. As a Sun Devil, chants of “A-S-U” follow him everywhere he goes on this course. They’re a reminder of his college days, when he won the ASU Thunderbird Invitational in three straight years. Winning here, he says, would bring that story full circle, just as his 2014 and 2015 Spanish amateur championships added meaning to his first Spanish Open win back in 2018.
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