{"id":4981,"date":"2025-04-11T12:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/liv-golf-star-jon-rahm-pieces-together-frustrating-1st-round-at-masters\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T12:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:01:33","slug":"liv-golf-star-jon-rahm-pieces-together-frustrating-1st-round-at-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/liv-golf-star-jon-rahm-pieces-together-frustrating-1st-round-at-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf star Jon Rahm pieces together frustrating 1st round at Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jon Rahm was once the No. 1 golfer in the world, but after winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/golf\/the-masters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Masters<\/a> in 2023, he has struggled to stay competitive in the majors that came next.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Rahm had a few bad breaks and nearly snapped his club when he drove a tee shot on the ninth hole to his right and into the woods. Rahm knew exactly what happened and let the club out of his hands as the ball tailed off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He nearly snapped the club over his knee before thinking he might need the club for the rest of his round.<\/p>\n<p>He finished the first round of the Masters shooting 3-over par and was tied for 63rd. He carded five bogeys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/datagolf.com\/live-model\/pga-tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Datagolf.com projected<\/a> that 3-over could be the cut line to make it into the final two days of the tournament, with a near 30% chance it moves down to +4 and around a 20% chance it moves to +2.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm was one of the handful of PGA Tour golfers who joined LIV Golf over the last few years. He is third this season in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/golf\/liv-golf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LIV Golf<\/a> standings. He finished tied for second at Riyadh and had not dropped out of the top 10 all season long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/mlb-great-ken-griffey-jr-takes-photography-talents-masters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MLB GREAT KEN GRIFFEY JR. TAKES PHOTOGRAPHY TALENTS TO THE MASTERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joaquin Niemann and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/sergio-garcia-goes-viral-masters-1st-round-outfit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sergio Garcia<\/a> are Nos. 1 and 2 respectively in the standings this season.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm finished tied for 45th at last year\u2019s Masters. He talked earlier in the week about the pressure he\u2019s felt amid the tug of war between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a few times where there was a lot of questions that I didn\u2019t really have an answer to, and I tried to, and I just really didn\u2019t,&#8221; he said, via T<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6271282\/2025\/04\/10\/jon-rahm-masters-round-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he Athletic<\/a>. &#8220;Kind of like \u2026 the state of the game and what\u2019s happening. We don\u2019t know. No one knows. We all want a solution, and it\u2019s hard to give one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Justin Rose finished the first round in the lead at 7-under with Corey Conners, Scottie Scheffler and Ludvig Aberg tied for second at 4-under.<\/p>\n<p><i><strong>Follow Fox News Digital\u2019s<\/strong><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNewsSports_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><strong>\u00a0<u>sports coverage on X,<\/u><\/strong><\/i><\/a><i><strong> and subscribe to<\/strong><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><strong><u> the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter<\/u><\/strong><\/i><\/a><i><strong>.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; FOX NEWS<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the website foxnews.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. 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