If you think that we are only recounting votes from the American presidential election in Georgia, we have good news: we also play very well golf near Augusta, the city that hosts the Masters.
And it is on the course of this American Grand Slam tournament that world number one Jon Rahm stood out on Tuesday with this stroke, memorable, extraordinary or "of the century" according to many media.
A "hole-in-one", where the ball ends up in the hole from the first attempt, but above all embellished with a series of ricochets on the water that separated it from its objective.
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On social networks, the video of the Spaniard's feat on hole number 16 was widely shared and commented on.
The excerpt posted by the Masters Twitter account has been viewed more than 20 million times in less than 24 hours, where other videos have a few dozen or even hundreds of thousands of views.
A success justified by the crazy visual impression of this shot, achieved during a training session.
Because, during the tournament, scheduled from Thursday to Sunday, the Basque, who celebrated his birthday Tuesday and had already managed another "hole-in-one" the day before, will not repeat his performance.
"He would never have tried that in competition," said Patrice Amadieu, former coach on the European circuit and head coach at the National Golf.
It is still much easier to send the ball in the air than to pass it through the water.
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"It's very random, you have an 80% chance that your ball will stay," continues Thomas Levet, consultant for Canal +, the broadcaster of the Augusta Masters.
It suffices for the ball to hit a wavelet for it to run aground.
We never work on it in training, it's really a shot that you hit without pressure, for fun.
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Watch @JordanSpieth hit it close skipping the ball across the pond on No. 16. #themasters pic.twitter.com/QhABb8y1IL
- The Masters (@TheMasters) April 2, 2018
A tradition born in the 1980s in the prestigious American tournament, the passage through this body of water of nearly 100 meters is intended to heat the crowd that normally congregates - this year, the Masters is being played behind closed doors due to health constraints - along the route during these training sessions.
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And without taking anything away from his merit, Jon Rahm is not the first to achieve a “hole-in-one” by touching the water on this number 16 hole, nicknamed “Redbud”.
In 2009, the Fijian Vijay Singh had achieved the feat, imitated by the German Martin Kaymer three years later.
Each time to the cheers of the crowd.
Even without spectators, the participants of the 2020 edition played the game in a place where the fate of the tournament is often decided.
In 2005, Tiger Woods had achieved one of his most legendary shots there.
"It's a hole where something often happens," Levet continues.
The flag
(Editor's note: which indicates the location of the hole)
is in a bowl, which means that the ball rolls all the time.
This is what helped Jon Rahm succeed.
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“It's a great promotion of our sport, and it goes back to its most basic definition, which is to push a ball into a hole while playing with the field, salutes Amadieu.
He puts the right intensity in his gesture, and after ... Is it luck?
Not only.
Luck is the difference between a ball two centimeters from the hole and one that falls into it.
And that makes a simple workout exceptional.