ACCIONA OPEN DE ESPAñA PRESENTED BY MADRID

September 27, 2024

Jon Rahm

Club de Campo Villa de Madrid

Quick Quotes

Q. 69 to go with yesterday's 68. Give us an assessment of your day out there today?

JON RAHM: It's a little frustrating after such good work yesterday in the heavy winds to not take advantage of the easier conditions today, especially the first -- my first 11 holes, barely any wind. Did a little bit of a good job early, but I just couldn't get the round going.

Overall, everything just felt one or two levels below what I would have liked to feel. Wasn't really quite comfortable all day on the course. But there's a couple moments where I still had some good swings, and making that eagle putt was something that kind of renewed the energy in me for the rest of the round. But just a few too many mistakes, I would say, in general, but a lot of the short irons, like missing the green on 12, missing the green on 18, 5, hitting it 40 feet long, missing the green on 7 with a 9-iron being a par 5 and missing the green on 8 as well. There's too many short irons, I'm not saying I need to hit it close but to have a look at birdie makes a big difference.

Q. Give us an idea of how the course is playing today and the conditions today out there.

JON RAHM: Well, I feel like yesterday on TV, you couldn't appreciate how windy it was just because some of the areas, maybe on camera, it doesn't look like it.

We definitely had -- whoever teed off late/early, had the easier side, I would say. Because yesterday morning it was windy. It was a tricky golf course and almost yesterday towards the end, the last 45 minutes or so, the wind died down a little bit to make it a little bit easier. And so if you count that and then this morning having no wind at all for the first three hours, it was definitely easier.

So I would say this afternoon, it's going to get windy again. It's a tough golf course. It's not an easy one. These are narrow fairways, small landing areas, small greens, and good shots that if you miss it by a small margin, it's a bit of a luck of the draw if you get in the rough.

You're not going to see many low scores out there. It might still happen. We saw Angel do it yesterday but you won't see many.