Sun Devil rising senior Jon Rahm, who earned the 2015 Ben Hogan Award, the most prestigious award in men’s amateur golf and was a first-team All-American, is playing in the Travelers Championship starting Thursday.
The No. 1 player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, he also earned honorable mention honors in his first two seasons. He will tee at 1:55 p.m. ET with Oscar Fraustro and Byron Smith.
Great practice round @TravelersChamp with 2 nice young players @carlosortizGolf and my countryman amateur @littleJRmaza ufffdufffd
— Sergio Garcia (@TheSergioGarcia) June 23, 2015
Rahm’s 12-under 272 (70-68-66-68) at the Waste Management Open in late January fell just short of his quest to be the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since Sun Devil Phil Mickelson won the Northern Telecom Open in 1991, but that certainly did not diminish what happened during the week.