Happy Birthday! Jon Rahm Makes Two Holes In One At Augusta
We've never seen anything like this...
We've never seen anything like this...
Happy Birthday! Jon Rahm Makes Two Holes In One At Augusta
The Masters is here and World No.2 Jon Rahm has got his week off to the perfect start.
The Spaniard celebrates his birthday today and he is also celebrating two holes-in-one at Augusta this week already.
Rahm aced the 4th yesterday in a practice round and then made an absolutely ridiculous hole-in-one at the 16th today.
The players always skim it over the pond on the 16th and the 26-year-old somehow holed his skim-shot, which is definitely the first time we've ever seen a player hole it on camera.
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We know he's got exceptional Spanish hands but this really is something else...
WATCH: Jon Rahm holes skim-shot over lake at The Masters -
"Yeah, pretty nice birthday present. Can't complain," Rahm said.
"Hit my normal tee shot to two feet and then skipped it and made it, which is the craziest thing, the second hole in one of the week.
"Yesterday it was on 4, I hit a 5 iron, and we didn't know it went in.
"A couple people on the green, and we didn't know until we basically got to the green.
"But the one on 16 today was visible, so very different.
"You don't see people skipping it and actually hitting it on the green very often, and to make it to that back pin, clearly we were all pretty shocked."
Rahm said he isn't counting the skim shot as an official hole in one and that he has now made four aces in his career, two in competition and two in practice rounds.
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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!
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