….. Albany, Bahamas
Jon Rahm will tie the wedding knot later this week when he marries long-time girlfriend and American-born, Kelley Cahill.
Rahm, 25 ended what he ranked a 9 out of 10 season in finishing a gallant runner-up earlier today here at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.
The Spaniard looked all set to become the first repeat winner since host Tiger Woods won back-to-back in 2006 and 2007 at the former host venue of Sherwood Country Club, and with the wins being Woods third and fourth in the event.
A fortnight earlier, Rahm was crowned European Tour No. 1 in winning the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai and a two days later the reigning DDF Irish Open and Spanish Open champion was honoured with the European Tour ‘2019 Golfer of the Year’ award.
Jon Rahm and a soon-to-be Mrs Rahm at the recent DP World Tour Championship. (PHoto – European Tour/Getty)
“It was the best year I’ve had,” he said.
“I’m not going to give it a 10 because I don’t think anybody would give it a 10, but close to a nine out of 10.”
Rahm had been leading until eventual winner, Henrik Stenson pulled-off a totally remarakble fairway wood second shot at the par-5 15th hole with the Swede’s ball stopping about 6-inches right of the cup for a tap-in eagle ‘3’. The effort saw Stenson leapfrog Rahm and a pair of pars was good enough for Stenson’s first victory in over two years.
Though Rahm said he was unaward of Stenson’s heroics.
“I wish I would have had a scoreboard on 18 to know that I was one back because I definitely played it 20 feet short of the pin thinking I was at least tied for the lead, so I wanted to give myself a chance,” said Rahm.
“But had I known, I would have been a little bit more aggressive. It is what it is. I still hit a good shot, I just mis-hit it a tiny bit and came up shorter than I wanted it.
“There’s a scoreboard on the left on nine, but it’s kind of hard to see the small numbers, I couldn’t really tell. And it wasn’t until I got to the green where they changed the position of the names.”
JON RAHM – SEASON 2019
Won – Zurich Classic of New Orleans (Ryan Palmer partner)
Won – Dubai Duty Free Irish Open
Won – Spanish Open
Won – DP World Tour Championship
T9th – Masters
T3rd – US Open
T11th – The Open
2nd – BMW PGA Championship
