Jon Rahm channels wrong kind of Seve, still fires 65 to open Masters

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Jon Rahm channeled his inner Seve on Thursday at Augusta National. It just wasn’t the type of imitation that Rahm would’ve liked to begin his opening round of the 87th Masters.

Though the exact verbiage is up for debate, Ballesteros was once quoted after a four-putt on No. 16 at the 1990 Masters with saying, “Well, I miss, I miss, I miss, I make.”

Rahm remembered the legendary saying as he walked to the second tee after a four-putt of his own at the par-4 first hole, where Rahm ran his 40-foot birdie putt 8 feet by before missing that putt and a 5-footer for bogey.

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“I carried a little bit of that negative energy into the tee shot…