Jon Rahm tackles the Blue Monster this week as he prepares to chase a second inexperienced jacket.
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The Spaniard spoke to reporters Wednesday forward of the LIV Golf Miami match at Trump Nationwide Doral, which earned its colourful nickname for its demanding 7,701-yard size and plentiful water hazards.
“Obviously Augusta is a whole different level and so is the Blue Monster, but that’s why I like this week,” Rahm mentioned. “It’s such a good prep for a major coming up. I’m looking forward to this week to hopefully see some of those improvements and come into next week with a clear mind of what to do.”
Rahm, 30, has completed high six in every of the primary 4 occasions on the LIV Golf calendar, together with a T2 on the season-opening match in Riyadh. The Legion XIII captain ranks No. 2 within the particular person standings behind Chile’s Joaquin Niemann, whereas his workforce ranks No. 2 behind Fireballs GC.
“I’m feeling good, yeah,” he mentioned. “I’ve been able to have a lot of good finishes, but I would say it hasn’t been what I would consider playing my best. I think I’ve scored really, really well but with some level of discomfort in some parts of my game that I kind of need to get over to accomplish bigger things, right, especially talking about major championships.
“I feel I am very near that if not over that. I feel particularly the previous few weeks, I have been enjoying actually good golf, feeling actually snug.”
Rahm tied for fourth at Miami last year, finishing 8-under par and three strokes behind winner Dean Burmester, who defeated Sergio Garcia in a playoff.
Rahm heads to Augusta next week for the Masters, where he followed up his 2023 victory with a disappointing tie for 45th place last year.
Although he has not won a tournament since LIV Golf Chicago in September, the two-time major winner is not short on confidence.
“I am all the time simply completely blindly assured in my talents,” Rahm said. “I feel all of us up right here, each time we tee it up, we predict we’ll win, and that is why they’ve completed lots of what they’ve and all the things that they’ve. I am trying ahead to seeing these adjustments that I am speaking about which were there for the higher a part of a yr and a half, I simply have not gotten over that.”
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