Rahm learns Nadal to win Masters 2023

Rahm often reads many books to learn things beneficial to his golf career, including the autobiography of Nadal - his fellow Spanish senior, or American basketball legend Kobe Bryant.

This morning, April 10, Hanoi, Rahm won the Masters with a score of -12 and dropped four strokes from T2. At the press conference that followed, Rahm linked his victory to a lesson from the book about Nadal, in the psychological description of the 2008 Grand Slam Wimbledon final against Roger Federer.

"In the book, Rafa admits he lost the fourth set because he distracted himself by thinking about winning early on. Thoughts about that moment certainly came to mind, but one should not forget to specialize because of them. The subject of reality is inherently unpredictable and then chooses the wrong solution when adverse developments occur".

In the 2008 Wimbledon final, Nadal led the first two sets, equaled by Federer in the fourth set. In this set, Nadal took the lead but lost the result. Through the book, Rahm memorized the details in the 4th set, whereby Nadal thought of the cup when he won the opponent a point to take the lead in the 4th set and then continuously lost in a few situations later. In that brainy tie-break confrontation, Nadal could not beat Federer despite having two chances to score the crown. In the fifth set, he succeeded with the score 9-7.

Rahm entered the final round of Masters 2023 with a score of -9 while the top of the table belonged to Brooks Koepka, at -11. After 12 holes, Rahm went to -10, the US opponent -7.

That part, Rahm scored two birdies, one bogey, while the opponent had four bogey.

On hole 13, Koepka got the first birdie, but the difference was still three strokes because Rahm also took the birdie to -11.

On hole 14, Rahm birdie again, reached -12 and kept the score to hole 17. Meanwhile, Koepka's teammate dropped to -8 after bogey on the penultimate hole. At that time, the lesson Nadal repeated with Rahm. "After the 17th hole, I thought about the cup, but then I woke up when I hit the trees on the 18th hole," he said.

Rahm put the ball up 70 yards from the flag on the second shot. Before Rahm hit the third shot, caddy Adam Hayes encouraged: "Hey, don't bogey this hole. Be worthy to be the champion". "You're right," replied Rahm.

After the third shot, Rahm was 1.2 meters from the hole and from there he scored a par to set a -12 victory and claimed $ 3.24 million at the 87th Masters. With this result, Rahm was crowned the second time in the competition. major quartet, after the first at the US Open 2021. He became the fourth Spanish golfer in history to have the honor of wearing the "Green Jacket" - the shirt for the Masters champion, after Sergio Garcia (2017 period), Seve Ballesteros (1980, 1983) and Jose Maria Olazabal (1994, 1999).

Rahm is 28 years old this year. In addition to two majors, he has nine cups on the PGA Tour through seven years of professional golf.