Jon Rahm will win his first career PGA Tour major in 2021
There will always be a conversation about the best player to never win a major. After 2021, Jon Rahm will be able to take himself off that list.
There are a couple of things to get to off the bat. Yes, I know that Jon Rahm is only 26, and the odds of him winning a major are quite high before he retires.
I also know that nothing is guaranteed. Rory McIlroy hasn’t won a major since 2014. Rickie Fowler, who was deemed to be one of the next up and coming stud golfers, is now 32, without a major to his name.
Also, I may be allocating more than four majors to golfers in the upcoming season. Semantics. That’s what you do sometimes.
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I do feel comfortable about Jon Rahm winning his first major though, and you should too. Just 26, Rahm already has five PGA Tour wins and six Euro wins, a mark that not many have matched by his age. Some of these wins are quite impressive, notably his last on each tour. In November 2019, he beat Tommy Fleetwood by a stroke to win the DP World Tour Championship. He also beat Dustin Johnson in a playoff at the BMW Championship in August of 2020.
Although he hasn’t played in a ton of majors (what do you expect, he is just recently 26), he has still finished strongly in a fair share of the events. He finished T-3rd at the U.S. Open in 2019, losing to Gary Woodland by six.
Then, in 2018, he finished T-4th, five shots back of Brooks Koepka. His best chance to win a major though would seem to be at the Masters. It’s where he has had the most success, with three straight top-ten finishes. He was 4th in 2018, T-9th in 2019, and T-7th this year behind Dustin Johnson.
It wasn’t that long ago that Rahmbo was actually ranked number one in the world, albeit for just two weeks. After winning the Memorial in July, he held onto it before Justin Thomas won the St. Jude.
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Get ready for Jon Rahm at a major in the upcoming season. Maybe we will see him yell at his caddie again. Maybe we will just see some top-ten finishes. Or maybe, just maybe… we will see Jon Rahm win his first major.