Jon Rahm Loses It During LIV Golf Nashville, Blames Drone For Water Ball
Jon Rahm pocketed A LOT of cash by moving to LIV Golf, but there seems to be one big problem with the tournaments, at least in his eyes. What is that problem? Drones flying overhead to capture video of the tournament.
After making birdie on three of his first five holes of Sunday's final round, Rahm stepped up to the tee on the sixth hole. His birdie run put him in position to potentially win the event, trailing only his teammate, Tyrell Hatton. Hatton made a bogey on the fifth hole, which got Rahm to just two shots back of his close friend.
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Jon Rahm hit a tee shot into the water during the final round of LIV Golf Nashville and immediately started swearing at an overhead drone.
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But as Rahm went to hit his tee shot on the sixth hole, a drone flew over his head. Rahm badly hooked his tee shot directly to the left and into the water.
According to his reaction, this isn't the first time this has happened.
"Every tournament. It’s f**king incredible. Right on my back swing, f**king drones every time," Rahm said as he slammed his club into his bag.
Rahm couldn't recover from the poor tee shot and ended up making a double-bogey on the hole, dropping him four shots back of Hatton.
Rahm entered four shots back of Hatton and despite making four birdies on his front-nine, Rahm only managed to shoot one-under thanks to that double-bogey and an additional bogey on the ninth hole. It didn't help that Hatton made birdie on the ninth hole to extend his lead to six shots.
Rahm had to withdraw from last week's U.S. Open after suffering a foot injury. However, he clearly healed up in time for the LIV event in Nashville and didn't seem to be suffering many ill-effects from the injury.
In fact, the drones are apparently causing him much more trouble than his sore foot.