The Masters Tournament 2024 – Jon Rahm: “It’s hard to put the jacket on somebody else”

Jon Rahm finishes the Masters Tournament 2024 with a weak final round of 76 shots. He made the same score on Friday, when conditions where much more difficult at the Augusta National Golf Club. His round places him at a total of nine shot over par tied for 45th place.

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Jon Rahm with weak finish at The Masters Tournament 2024

Jon Rahm, who entered the tournament as the defending champion, was not able to make a convincing effort to take home another Green Jacket. And even with perfect conditions on Sunday he had a mixed first nine holes and finished the tournament with two double bogeys on the second nine holes.

Rahm started with three birdies on the first seven holes, only in round one he made more. He even had a magic hole out on hole 7.

But he kept having difficulties on the greens, losing a total of six shots from hole 8 onwards.

Jon Rahm on his final round: “A couple of bad swings”

Q. Talk about things you want to improve, the things that didn’t really work this week.

JON RAHM: I kind of went out there to try some things to see how it felt. Irons felt better, and off the tee felt good, to be honest. It felt pretty good. Just a couple of bad swings in there. There’s a lot of things that contributed to me not having my best week, and one of them I think was obviously on the greens, which is not easy. Never really had the pace of the greens, and a couple too many three-putts. That’s the easiest way to fix it, but that’s, I think, very subjective to this golf course and the conditions we’re playing on.

Q. Maybe the more positive things is describing what it meant to come here as a defending champion, everything that happened?

JON RAHM: Well, it’s harder to talk about it when I’ve played this bad. It’s been nice to have some receptions walking up to some tees no matter what my score was and seeing the appreciation. But when you don’t have your best week, it’s not that — it’s hard to have to stay now to put the jacket on somebody else and never really ever have a chance.

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