Jon Rahm thought he was going to a playoff but didn’t know the correct score of the leader and lost - Golf.com

“That’s a tough putt; you can’t just ram it by 10 feet, it’s just not going to go in,” Rahm said afterwards. “So I did hit it with trying to make it with perfect speed thinking a two-putt would get into a playoff, but when (caddie) Adam (Hayes) told me the news, he’s like, ‘Hey, good try.’ I’m like, What do you mean, we’re in a playoff? He’s like, ‘Nope, he birdied 18.’ And I didn’t hear any roars or anything, so I just assumed he parred.”

Despite his disappointment, Rahm reiterated that even if he knew he needed to make an eagle he wouldn’t have done anything differently, even with the putt.

“I hit the right speed, that putt doesn’t go in, it was left of the hole the whole way, so it doesn’t matter,” he said.

Rahm, who finished alone in second, said it was a sour feeling coming up short, but mentioned the unexpected death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant put the day in perspective.

“Me missing a putt and not reading a scoreboard really, really, really doesn’t matter to me right now,” he said. “I try my best, I do what I can and luckily I play golf for a living, which is what I love and I do it good enough to play at an elite level, right? So I’m really fortunate to be where I am and then my heart goes to all those people in the helicopter, all those families and all the other problems going on in the world, which are a lot more important than whether I make a putt or not.”

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