AUGUSTA, Ga. – The voice of Spain’s first great Masters champion had whispered in Jon Rahm’s ear at the start of this Masters, when he needed it most.
Rahm’s victory here was so solid, so undeniable – where even great trees fell in the storm this week, he was unmoved, committing just one bogey in his final round – that it’s easy to forget the tremors at the beginning. One-two-three-four putts on the first green Thursday. A double-bogey 6.
Instead of going straight to a low boil – and Rahm has been known to be an induction cooktop in cleats – he thought back instead to the immortal words of the late Seve Ballesteros when asked to describe a four-putt of his own in 1990:
