OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. – The only thing that went wrong for Jon Rahm over the weekend at Olympia Fields was the poker chip he uses as a ball marker.
Rahm’s inexplicable mental blunder on the fifth hole during the third round of the BMW Championship, where he picked up his ball without first marking it, cost the Spaniard a shot. It also proved to be his lone dropped shot over the final two rounds, as Rahm roared from the pack to win the season’s penultimate event in a playoff over Dustin Johnson.
Rahm professed only one hope while explaining his mental lapse after the third round: just don’t let me lose by one shot.