Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton watched the Euro football final between Spain and England together. You don’t have to be the most intuitive person on the planet to know how those 90 minutes might have been. Jon and Tyrrell, Tyrrell and Jon. Two athletes who can get annoyed with the flight of a fly, who live it almost as if it were the last day of their lives. It’s a pity not to have had a hidden camera recording everything in that room in the Sotogrande house. “I would say it was a spectacle worth seeing, what one expects from such a situation,” Jon explains with a laugh.
Basically, it all comes down to them experiencing it like any other fan from Spain or England in the world. With that passion, with that spark, with those jibes flying from one wing of the room to the other. “There was a lot of colourful language. It was fun to see how Cucurella or Carvajal got on his nerves. And I understand. They are two great players who commit the foul when they know they have to. They are very good at that. When Palmer scored the equaliser, I would describe his reaction as electric,” he says ironically.
Jon didn’t miss the opportunity to tease Hatton. “Especially with the fouls, I had a lot of fun. When a Spaniard committed a foul it was the worst thing in the world and it had to be a yellow or red card and when an Englishman did it, nothing had happened. The usual. But then he admitted that Spain had played very well. In fact, at the beginning of the second half, after Nico Williams scored, he confessed to me that it could get very tough. Spain played very well throughout the match, it was a miracle that they didn’t score a goal in the first half and they had a fantastic second half.”
On the other hand, Jon has again made clear his intention to sort things out with the European Tour, regarding the fines and suspensions he has to serve, to play in the Open de España, the first tournament he has to play since he is at LIV. He has also explained that he feels much more comfortable with his swing since he changed the shaft of his driver, as we reported in TenGolf last week in Valderrama. He signs an Open Championship with the same comfort from the tee as in the LIV of Andalusia and hopes to be able to play with Scheffler or McIlroy some more times before next year’s Masters of Augusta. “I’m still hoping there will be an agreement and we can play together more often. I hope it happens soon.
As for the tournament, he makes a wish. “I hope I can start well on Thursday with a round that puts me up there. It hasn’t happened to me in the Majors since the Masters of Augusta”. It’s certainly a good first goal for this week. And necessary. Remember that he will start playing on the first day from 9.36, local time, along with Fleetwood and McIntyre. Thus, Robert can also thank him first hand for the victory in the Euro. “I’ve never been congratulated so much for something I didn’t do. It seems that the Scots were very happy with Spain’s victory. I don’t know what the English have done, but it seems that everyone, except them, of course, is happy when they lose,” he stresses.
