DUBLIN, Ohio – Jon Rahm made his first trip to Muirfield Village in a dark suit and a royal blue tie, no golf clubs.He won the Jack Nicklaus Award as the nation’s top college golfer.
Rahm graduated from Arizona State in four years, despite speaking no English when he arrived on a campus so big he thought he was in a movie theater when he went to his first class in macroeconomics.That was four years ago.Far more meaningful was meeting Nicklaus behind the 18th green after an exquisite performance in the Memorial.
Rahm built an eight-shot lead at the turn on the toughest Sunday at Muirfield Village in 42 years. He lost five shots of that lead in five holes.