Jon Rahm, from the covid to the top at the US Open

Jon Rahm went back where he left off. When he was announced less than two weeks ago that he had tested positive, just when he was leading the Jack Nicklaus tournament, the Memorial Tournament with a huge advantage, the Basque was displaying his best golf of the season. He commanded that Saturday, after the third day, with 18 under par, an income so comfortable that the title was decided the next day at -13. The coronavirus isolated Rahm, who was training at home with a simulator while waiting for negative tests, and put his participation in the third big of the season in check, the US Open that started this Thursday in Torrey Pines. Although what hurt Rahm the most, more than the title and the check that disappeared at the Memorial, was not being able to be present when his parents, Angela and Edorta,they were finally able to travel to the United States to meet their grandson Kepa. Now recovered and healthy, the Barrika golfer has picked up where they left off and on the first day of the US Open he signed -2, two of the leaders Henley and Oosthuizen, and with another Spaniard, Rafa Cabrera Bello, with - 3, and Sergio García in the par on the field.

Morning fog delayed the day at Torrey Pines, San Diego, and 36 players were unable to finish the round. By the hair ended Rahm, who in this field shows that he is at home. Ambitious, started with a

at 10

and the confidence made him go for it all.

With three

and three

, until the seventh hole he did not write a par and then, with the game more controlled, he discounted two new shots, the same score as other contenders such as Koepka, Matsuyama and Schauffele.

Ahead of them appears a superb Rafa Cabrera, who completed an exercise in temper in a tournament that often unhinges golfers.

No

for the first time in his career in a US Open for the canary, who came out alive from ambushes in the

and also drew a beautiful

on 18 to polish his scorecard.

Let's go @RCabreraBello 🤟 #

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A fist pump sighting from @JonRahmpga 💪 # FromManyOne |

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Cabrera shines in the positions of honor alongside an old acquaintance, Francesco Molinari, the Italian who has once again trusted Pello Iguaran as a

.

The head is half the game in golf and, after several stumbles, Molinari has returned to the source of his greatest successes.

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