Watch Jon Rahm make one of the luckiest birdies you will ever see at the BMW PGA Championship
It’s better to be lucky than good. It’s an old saying and not an altogether true one, but you wouldn’t have known it if you were watching the final hole of Jon Rahm’s second round at the BMW PGA Championship on Friday. That’s when the back-to-back LIV individual champion blew his tee shot through the bend on the 516-yard par-5. His ball looked certain to soar OB, but instead it took mighty kick … right into the back of a golf cart behind the gallery.
Talk about a lucky break. Instead of having to reload another, Rahm got a free dop and a good angle from which to attack the green in two. But that was just the start. Rahm started his second shot on an extremely aggressive line, attacking the front right hole location with water lurking just short of the pin. Drawing back toward the flagstick, Rahm’s shot seemed to hang in the air forever, landing five yards short and spinning back towards the water, coming to rest a foot away from the hazard.
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On a different day with a different roll of the dice, Rahm walks away with a double bogey. Instead he chipped to a foot and tapped in for a birdie. We’ll see if that luck holds for the Spaniard at Bethpage Black in two weeks’ time, but as Sam Elliot once quipped, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you. On Friday, it was clearly Rahm’s turn to feast.