Jon Rahm wants to be the fourth Spaniard to put on the Green Jacket and will fight this week at the Augusta Masters to once again lead the world ranking (OWGR). He has mathematical options to achieve it, although it not only depends on his result at Augusta National, but he will have to be aware of what the current leader of the classification, the American Scottie Scheffler, does.
Jon Rahm, ranking
Rahm, to return to being Number One in the world next Monday, absolutely needs to win the Masters. But in addition to victory, he would need Scheffer to finish worse than solo fourth or tied third with three other players or tied second with six others.
If these premises are met, Jon will return to lead the OWGR regardless of what Rory Mcilroy does. Because for the Northern Irishman, who also has the accounts to become Number One, the only result that is worth it, like Jon, is to win this first ‘major’ of 2023.
If Rory finally puts on the jacket and completes the Grand Slam as the sixth golfer in history to achieve it after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, he would need Scheffler to be worse than third solo or second tied with four.
All these data are according to the twitter expert in world ranking, @VC606, who has revealed, as every week, the keys to this fight to recover the world number 1. Jon attended Arizona State University and won 11 varsity tournaments, second only to Phil Mickelson who earned 16 titles.
In 2015 he participated as an amateur at the Phoenix Open, finishing fifth. On April 1, he took first place in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and held it for 25 weeks, then regained the position to hold it for another 35 weeks.
He thus qualified for the U.S. Open and the Open Championship the following year: in the first of the two tournaments he finished twenty-third, then turned professional, at the same time losing the right to play in the Open.
The Quicken Loans National was his first professional event and he finished third. The Canadian Open instead saw him finish second. At the end of the season he obtained a card for the 2017 PGA Tour. Rahm found his first success in the Farmers Insurance Open thanks to an eagle on the last hole, managing to enter the major tournaments on the world scene.
At the Mexico Championship, an event in the World Golf Championships series, he finished third, two shots behind the winner Dustin Johnson, while in the second event, the Dell Technologies Match Play, he lost the final against Johnson himself.
He later won the Irish Open and the final tournament of the European Tour season, the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, by six strokes, also winning the rookie of the year award.
