HOYLAKE, England : Becoming the first Spaniard to win the British Open since Seve Ballesteros in 1988 would be a great honour, Jon Rahm said on Tuesday ahead of this week's tournament at Hoylake.Ballesteros, who lifted the Claret Jug three times, died of brain cancer in 2011 at the age of 54 but his influ
HOYLAKE, England : Becoming the first Spaniard to win the British Open since Seve Ballesteros in 1988 would be a great honour, Jon Rahm said on Tuesday ahead of this week's tournament at Hoylake.
"To be the first one to win an Open since Seve for Spain would be quite special," Rahm told reporters. He could draw inspiration from compatriot Carlos Alcaraz who claimed his first Wimbledon tennis title on Sunday by beating Novak Djokovic in an epic final.
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