{"id":24832,"date":"2025-10-11T03:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/jon-rahm-jumps-back-into-contention-at-spanish-open\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T03:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:51:40","slug":"jon-rahm-jumps-back-into-contention-at-spanish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/jon-rahm-jumps-back-into-contention-at-spanish-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm jumps back into contention at Spanish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MADRID &#8211; Jon Rahm returned to contention for a fourth title with seven birdies at the Spanish Open on Friday, but fellow Ryder Cup winner Shane Lowry failed to fully recover from his first day&#8217;s slump after failing to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm started Thursday&#8217;s home tournament with a 72, but his 5-under 66 left him five shots behind leader Marco Penge (67).<\/p>\n<p>Lowry got off to an even worse start with a 75 in the opening round &#8212; two weeks after making the clinching putt to win the European Ryder Cup &#8212; and Friday&#8217;s 68 wasn&#8217;t enough to avoid missing out by one stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Penge had a perfect round with four birdies to lead the trio of Denmark&#8217;s Jeff Windsor, Switzerland&#8217;s Joel Garback and Canada&#8217;s Aaron Cockerill by one stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm tied for 18th place. He is on track to overtake Seve Ballesteros as the most successful golfer on the tournament since the European Tour was created in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>This is Lahm&#8217;s seventh appearance for Madrid, having won in 2018, 2019 and 2022. In last year&#8217;s playoffs, he finished second to fellow Spaniard Angel Hidalgo.<\/p>\n<p>Hidalgo will not be returning to take on Rahm this time around as the defending champion missed the cut after three overs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID &#8211; Jon Rahm returned to contention for a fourth title with seven birdies at the Spanish Open on Friday, but fellow Ryder Cup winner Shane Lowry failed to fully recover from his first day&#8217;s slump after failing to qualify. Rahm started Thursday&#8217;s home tournament with a 72, but his 5-under 66 left him five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-24832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}