You’ll never look at Jon Rahm the same way again after learning this shocking fact
Pedro Salado
Jon Rahm is 6’ 2”, 220 pounds. That’s a peak beer-drinking frame if we’ve ever seen one. Whether he’s pounding one 400-hundo down the middle of the fairway or cursing like a Basque sailor, Rahm seems like the kind of guy that could delete a six pack of imperial Belgians on a hot day and not even droop an eyelid.
Apparently—SHOCKINGLY—that couldn’t be further from the truth.
On Wednesday at JCB Golf & Country Club, the site of this week’s LIV Golf UK event, Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton spoke as part of a broader Legion XIII press conference. Asked how the fiery pair's relationship has grown since becoming teammates, Rahm said, “I'll tell you the one thing we've learned about each other we've, I've gotten to know a lot more our taste on wine. At first it was like, I like it; I like it too. But then you get to know, okay, what do you like. So that's been a bit more profound. You get to know each other a little bit more.”
But then came the bombshell. Asked the same question, Hatton made a startling revelation:
“He said he doesn't like beer …”
Come again, now???
“I tried it last week. I just don't like it. I wish I did. I truly wish I did,” Rahm explained. “I feel left out, like when you finish playing and somebody can just relax and have a beer, it's just — I don't know, I feel like you can't always go to a pub and be like, I need my glass of wine. I just feel left out.”
“It was probably not the place to say you don't like Guinness there [Royal Portrush] last week,” Hatton chimed in. “You're not going to get a better pint than there, to be honest … I've lost track of the question, thinking of beer now.”
To each their own, different strokes for different folks, swing your swing, etc. etc., but this is a surprising mask-off moment for Rahm. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but this is the same guy who once crushed 19 tacos in the span of nine holes. If that isn’t beer-drinking behavior, we don’t know what is.
Whether or not you can ever look at Rahm the same way knowing he’s a “how’s your house red?” type of guy is up to you. Again, NOT THAT THERE’S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT, but we wouldn’t blame you for feeling a little disoriented. After all, up is now down, hot is now cold and Jon Rahm, despite all the evidence to the contrary, doesn’t drink beer.