The postponement of LIV Golf Louisiana has caused some serious problems for players preparing for the final two majors of the season.
With LIV’s New Orleans event no longer taking place between the US Open and The Open Championship, LIV players will have no competitive action between these two majors.
This makes pre-major preparation all the more important for players like Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau. The sole advantage they have is that they are able to focus solely on these major championships, and that is precisely what Rahm is doing before Shinnecock.
Jon Rahm is practicing at Shinnecock Hills ahead of US Open
Rahm has no events scheduled this week, so the two-time major winner took advantage of this by taking a trip to Shinnecock Hills to prepare for the US Open.
He and his fellow Spaniard, David Puig, who had a solid showing at the PGA Championship like Rahm, played a practice round at the historic venue to scout it out a week before America’s national open.
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A US Open at Shinnecock is the toughest test in golf, with only three players finishing under par in over 100 years at this brutal golf course. So Rahm and Puig will need all the practice they can get in order to challenge for this major.
Especially considering Rahm missed the cut that last time a US Open came to Shinnecock Hills.
Jon Rahm makes criticism of Rory McIlroy look ridiculous
During his second straight win at The Masters this year, Rory McIlroy came under fire. He revealed that he had been flying back and forth to Augusta National prior to the event to get some practice rounds in, and he was slammed for gaining an unfair advantage.
Rahm going to Shinnecock to practice before the US Open shows why this criticism was ridiculous. No one is accusing him of gaining an unfair advantage ahead of this major. That would be absurd.
What McIlroy did ahead of The Masters is no different from what Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus did later in their careers. It really was nothing new.
And Rahm is proving exactly that before this year’s US Open. This is what the great players do, and hopefully this puts an end to that debate.
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