Liv Golf Star Jon Rahm Pieces Together Frustrating 1st Round At Masters

Jon Rahm was erstwhile nan No. 1 golfer successful nan world, but aft winning the Masters successful 2023, he has struggled to enactment competitory successful nan fields that came next.

On Thursday, Rahm had a fewer bad breaks and astir snapped his nine erstwhile he drove a tee changeable connected nan ninth spread to his correct and into nan woods. Rahm knew precisely what happened and fto nan nine retired of his hands arsenic nan shot tailed off.

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Jon Rahm looks connected aft making a putt connected nan 13th spread during nan first information astatine nan Masters play tourney connected Thursday, April 10, 2025, successful Augusta, Georgia. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

He astir snapped nan nine complete his knee earlier reasoning he mightiness request nan nine for nan remainder of his round.

He vanished nan first information of nan Masters shooting 3-over par and was tied for 63rd. He carded 5 bogeys.

Datagolf.com projected that 3-over could beryllium nan trim statement to make it into nan last 2 days of nan tournament, pinch a adjacent 30% chance it moves down to +4 and astir a 20% chance it moves to +2.

Rahm was 1 of nan fistful of PGA Tour golfers who joined LIV Golf complete nan past fewer years. He is 3rd this play successful nan LIV Golf standings. He vanished tied for 2nd astatine Riyadh and had not dropped retired of nan apical 10 each play long.

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Jon Rahm, of Spain, hits from nan bunker connected nan 18th spread during nan first information astatine nan Masters play tourney connected Thursday, April 10, 2025 successful Augusta, Georgia. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Joaquin Niemann and Sergio Garcia are Nos. 1 and 2 respectively successful nan standings this season.

Rahm vanished tied for 45th astatine past year’s Masters. He talked earlier successful nan week astir nan unit he’s felt amid nan tug of warfare betwixt nan PGA Tour and LIV Golf.

"There was a fewer times wherever location was a batch of questions that I didn’t really person an reply to, and I tried to, and I conscionable really didn’t," he said, via The Athletic. "Kind of for illustration … nan authorities of nan crippled and what’s happening. We don’t know. No 1 knows. We each want a solution, and it’s difficult to springiness one."

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Jon Rahm lines up his putt connected nan 2nd greenish during nan first information of nan Masters successful Augusta, Georgia, connected April 10, 2025. (Peter Casey-Imagn Images)

Justin Rose vanished nan first information successful nan lead astatine 7-under pinch Corey Conners, Scottie Scheffler and Ludvig Aberg tied for 2nd astatine 4-under.

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