{"id":947070,"date":"2026-07-20T08:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/947070\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:20:27","slug":"jon-rahm-tears-glove-apart-in-british-open-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/947070\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm tears glove apart in British Open meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Rahm began Sunday with an opportunity to work himself into the mix at the British Open, sitting six shots back of leader Sam Burns.<\/p>\n

His chances blew up on his first shot.<\/p>\n

For the second straight day, Rahm whacked his tee shot on the first hole out of bounds, and he was so mad at himself that he tore his glove apart.<\/p>\n

Jon Rahm rips his glove as he walks off the first tee box during the final round of the British Open on July 19, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Jon Rahm rips his glove after hitting his first shot out of bounds during the final round of the British Open on July 19, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n

He ended up with a double-bogey six on the par-4 opening hole, just as he did during Saturday\u2019s third round. <\/p>\n

While Rahm shot even for the third round to remain at 4-under for the tournament, he appears to have shot himself out of contention on Sunday.<\/p>\n

After a birdie on the fifth hole, he had consecutive bogeys on the sixth and seventh holes to fall to 3-over for the round and 1-under for the tournament, sitting nine shots back of the lead through his first eight holes.<\/p>\n

The glove-ripping incident marks the second meltdown by a LIV Golf star at Royal Birkdale after Bryson DeChambeau went berserk after being assessed a two-stroke penalty<\/a> on Friday after it was ruled he improved his lie.<\/p>\n

That may prove costly as DeChambeau began Sunday at 6-under, four strokes back of Burns.<\/p>\n

Rahm, a two-time major champion, has not won a major since joining LIV Golf. His performances at the majors have been all over the place; he tied for second at this year\u2019s PGA Championship but then missed the cut during the U.S. Open at Shinnecock.<\/p>\n

Jon Rahm (r.) rips his glove alongside Shane Lowry (l.) at the first tee box during the final round of the British Open on July 19, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Jon Rahm tears his glove apart after hitting his first shot out of bounds during the final round of the British Open on July 19, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Cameron Young was the big mover early Sunday, shooting 5-under through the first 12 holes to get to 8-under overall, two shots behind Burns.<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler was 3-under through nine to get to 7-under overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm began Sunday with an opportunity to work himself into the mix at the British Open, sitting…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":947071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[47],"tags":[48831,1430,18828,19413,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-947070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-british-open","tag-golf","tag-jon-rahm","tag-liv-golf","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116951333319702616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}