{"id":428214,"date":"2023-03-02T23:54:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T04:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428214"},"modified":"2023-03-02T23:59:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T04:59:13","slug":"john-rahm-stays-hot-rockets-to-bay-hill-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/john-rahm-stays-hot-rockets-to-bay-hill-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm stays hot, rockets to Bay Hill lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Rahm, who returned to the top\u00a0of the\u00a0world rankings last week, began on Thursday is round strong and ended it even better, closing eagle-birdie-birdie for a seven-under 65 and a two-shot lead in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leaderboard after Round 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APinv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@APInv<\/a> \u26f3\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRahmpga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JonRahmPGA<\/a> (-7)<br \/>T2. Chris Kirk (-5)<br \/>T2. Cameron Young<br \/>T2. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kurt_Kitayama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Kurt_Kitayama<\/a> <br \/>T5. Adam Schenk (-4)<br \/>T5. Scottie Scheffler<br \/>T5. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanSpieth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JordanSpieth<\/a> <br \/>T5. Aaron Rai<br \/>T5. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XSchauffele?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@XSchauffele<\/a> <br \/>T5. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patrick_cantlay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Patrick_Cantlay<\/a><br \/>T5. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RickieFowler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RickieFowler<\/a> <br \/>T5. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Keegan_Bradley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Keegan_Bradley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1631450714533707779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Not even the brute test of Bay Hill was a match for golf&#8217;s hottest player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amazing round of golf,&#8221; Rahm said. &#8220;I wish all of them were as enjoyable as this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He started his round strong and ended it even better, closing eagle-birdie-birdie for a seven-under 65 and a two-shot lead in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm already has three PGA Tour wins this year, and has won five of his last nine tournaments worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go through the round and you&#8217;ll see plenty of mistakes,&#8221; the Spaniard said. &#8220;I just took advantage of minimizing mistakes and converted a couple of situations into really good scores. But it can always be better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s the first day,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Ask me that on Sunday if I keep playing like this, and I&#8217;ll probably change my answer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Picking up right where he left off.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRahmpga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JonRahmPGA<\/a> is out front by 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APinv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@APInv<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4bG9Rwbc9e\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4bG9Rwbc9e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1631440583779557379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard held steady the rest of the way until his big burst at the end allowed him to fly past Honda Classic winner Chris Kirk and Cameron Young.<\/p>\n<p>He hit only eight fairways today,\u00a0he twice found himself trapped behind the trees, one of those times he managed to escape with par, holing a 30-foot putt on the 15th hole.<\/p>\n<p>But it was his finish that was most impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm hit 5-iron to 25 feet on the fringe at the par-5 16th and holed it for eagle. On the par-3 17th, he hammered a 7-iron that cleared the bunker and landed in just the right spot to roll out to two feet.<\/p>\n<p>And on the closing hole, he hit a soft 9-iron to a front pin that settled about six feet away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Rahm, who returned to the top\u00a0of the\u00a0world rankings last week, began on Thursday is round strong and ended it even better, closing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428215,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17759],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard closed eagle-birdie-birdie for a 7-under 65 and a two-shot lead in the Arnold Palmer Invitational","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428214"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428214"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}