SAINT QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Jon Rahm’s body of work heading into the Olympic golf tournament was largely and somewhat erroneously dismissed, mostly because the big offseason splash he made in signing with the LIV Golf was not followed by a bigger splash in the League tournaments.
The conversation focused on the major championships and it obviously wasn’t great. A lackluster tie for 45th in his defense of the Masters title; a missed cut on a relatively benign Valhalla course at the PGA Championship; a withdrawal at the U.S. Open due to a foot infection; and then, finally, a tie for seventh at the British Open, where he was never really in contention.
