Write Jon Rahm off as a golfing heavyweight at your peril

Jon Rahm hits out of a bunker on the 17th green during Saturday’s third roundSo, with the three birdies in his first three holes, maybe Jon Rahm can still do the occasional notable thing in this major malarkey and maybe those who are writing him off as a force might have gone a tad early in their assessment that joining LIV Golf has removed his big-stage superpowers.

The argument goes that since Rahm signed up for his £350 million Saudi bounty 18 months ago he has not contended in any of the big four.

Fair enough, but let us look more closely at his results sheet in this regard. Rahm missed last year’s US Open with an infected foot and followed that up the next month with seventh at The Open…