LIV Golf star Jon Rahm pieces together frustrating 1st round at Masters

Jon Rahm was erstwhile the No. 1 golfer successful the world, but aft winning the Masters successful 2023, helium has struggled to enactment competitory successful the majors that came next.

On Thursday, Rahm had a fewer atrocious breaks and astir snapped his nine erstwhile helium drove a tee changeable connected the ninth spread to his close and into the woods. Rahm knew precisely what happened and fto the nine retired of his hands arsenic the shot tailed off.

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Jon Rahm looks connected aft making a putt connected the 13th spread during the archetypal circular astatine the Masters play tourney connected Thursday, April 10, 2025, successful Augusta, Georgia. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

He astir snapped the nine implicit his genu earlier reasoning helium mightiness request the nine for the remainder of his round.

He finished the archetypal circular of the Masters shooting 3-over par and was tied for 63rd. He carded 5 bogeys.

Datagolf.com projected that 3-over could beryllium the chopped enactment to marque it into the last 2 days of the tournament, with a adjacent 30% accidental it moves down to +4 and astir a 20% accidental it moves to +2.

Rahm was 1 of the fistful of PGA Tour golfers who joined LIV Golf implicit the past fewer years. He is 3rd this play successful the LIV Golf standings. He finished tied for 2nd astatine Riyadh and had not dropped retired of the apical 10 each play long.

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Jon Rahm, of Spain, hits from the bunker connected the 18th spread during the archetypal circular astatine the Masters play tourney connected Thursday, April 10, 2025 successful Augusta, Georgia. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Joaquin Niemann and Sergio Garcia are Nos. 1 and 2 respectively successful the standings this season.

Rahm finished tied for 45th astatine past year’s Masters. He talked earlier successful the week astir the unit he’s felt amid the tug of warfare betwixt the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.

"There was a fewer times wherever determination was a batch of questions that I didn’t truly person an reply to, and I tried to, and I conscionable truly didn’t," helium said, via The Athletic. "Kind of similar … the authorities of the crippled and what’s happening. We don’t know. No 1 knows. We each privation a solution, and it’s hard to springiness one."

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Jon Rahm lines up his putt connected the 2nd greenish during the archetypal circular of the Masters successful Augusta, Georgia, connected April 10, 2025. (Peter Casey-Imagn Images)

Justin Rose finished the archetypal circular successful the pb astatine 7-under with Corey Conners, Scottie Scheffler and Ludvig Aberg tied for 2nd astatine 4-under.

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