Jon Rahm made the most of his latest trip home to his native Spain, winning the DP World Tour’s acciona Open de España presented by Madrid.
The 27-year-old Rahm grew up in the Basque coastal town of Barrika, population 1,500, and fairly or not, he’s been compared to the great Spanish golfers who came before him since his teens: Seve Ballesteros, Jose-Maria Olazabal, Sergio Garcia. He met the legendary Ballesteros at a prize-giving ceremony when he was around 12, four years before the shot-making maestro’s passing. Olazabal happened to be there, too. Rahm shook his hand but caught up in the moment, he nearly missed that of Ballesteros.
