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The emotions of Jon Rahm ran in the first round in the first round in the open championship.
The Spaniard experienced a difficult time when he played the 10th hole by 4 on Thursday at the Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland. Rahm’s shot was found in the harsh.
The double winner of the major championship was visibly upset as he put his hands in the air before turning to the gallery and rumbling a fan.
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Jon Rahm, from Spain, played a shot on the 17th hole on the first day of the 153rd championship open to the Royal Portrush Golf Club on July 17, 2025 in Portrush, Northern Ireland. (Stuart Kerr / R & A via Getty Images)
Rahm said that at least one spectator had made a distracting noise when he was trying his backswing.
“Really whistling? No, good time,” said Rahm. “Just on my backswing. Very intelligent, anyone.”
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It was not clear if cameras for television broadcast had recovered the audio from the presumed whistling noise. Rahm then minimized the tense exchange he had with the spectator, taking out his emotional reaction to the “bad timing” of the noise in question.
Jon Rahm, from Spain, recognizes the crowd in the 18th green during the first day of the 153rd championship open to the Royal Portrush Golf Club on July 17, 2025 in Portrush, Northern Ireland. (Warren Little / Getty images)
“I mean, if I had to paint a painting, you have the hardest t-shirt on the course, the rain, in the wind offshore, it’s enough,” Rahm told assembled media. “I know they don’t do it on purpose. It seemed like someone was trying to grasp someone for anything. It was a bad timing.”
Rahm admitted that he had “a bad swing”.
April 10, 2025; Augusta, Georgia, United States; Jon Rahm aligns his putt on the second green in the first round of the Masters tournament. (Images Peter Casey-Imagn)
“I think I just used the moment to let out all tension that I had in me. Really that’s not – that’s what it is. To be honest, it probably didn’t affect as much as I made it look like. It was also a bad swing. Just a difficult hole.
“I mean, it’s frustrating, but that’s what it is. This is a daily thing in golf”, concluded Rahm.
The 30 -year -old has entered the last major tournament of the heels of a second place at the Liv Golf event in Spain. Rahm experienced his best open performance in 2023 when he finished tied for second place.
He won the US Open in 2021 and the Masters tournament in 2023.
