Jon Rahm could not avoid Brooks Koepka’s controversial comments at the Ryder Cup on Friday night. Rahm preferred that his friends refrain from sending him texts regarding Koepka’s comments that Rahm behaved “like a kid” during their afternoon match. But the Spaniard took it all in stride.
Rahm, who missed a 10-foot-long putt on the 17th green to tie the match, was so frustrated that he smashed a sign on his club.
Rahm said on Saturday, after a fourth foursomes win with Tyrrell Hatton.
“As for me, I’m happy with myself and needed to do it at that time to release some steam and play what I wanted to. It worked out well, I played two good shots and was lucky with the putt. “I needed to perform in those circumstances.”
Koepka told the press this on Friday, after Rahm had made two eagles in the last three hole to tie the match. “I think me and Scottie, we birdied, we said, 14, we then birdied 15, 16, 17, 18 and lost by two. So yeah. I’m tempted to pout and hit the board like Jon Rahm. You know, it’s what it is. Act like a child. We’re grown-ups. “We move on.”
On September 29, 2023, in Rome, Italy. Jon Rahm and Brooke Koepka from Team Europe and Team United States react on the second green at the Marco Simone Golf Club during the afternoon fourball matches on Friday. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images).
Koepka’s comments seemed to backfire as Sheffler and he suffered the worst Ryder Cup loss in history Saturday morning, after Viktor Hovland & Ludvig Aberg thrashed the American heavyweights 9 – 7.
The first time the Spaniard has addressed Koepka’s remarks was after Rahm and Hatton beat Koepka in their foursomes match on Saturday morning.
Rahm said, “I’m not going stand here and tell you that I am a perfect example of what to do on the golf course.” “I don’t think we are (laughter). “But I compete and play.”
Hatton who is known as a man with a short temper, said: “I am just sitting here, watching TV.”
