Jon Rahm hits reset after disappointments in 2024 majors - ESPN

AUGUSTA, Ga. — After every year, Jon Rahm likes to hit the reset button. And heading into this major season at the Masters, the Spaniard felt as if he needed the reboot more than most years.

«I like keeping [goals] fresh instead of just saying I want to win X amount of things by or in the next five years,» Rahm said at Augusta National on Tuesday. «I feel like I perform better and I go with a more clear mindset to face the year if I do that exercise of closing the page on the year before and start a new one for the following year.»

Rahm went from the highs of winning the 2023 Masters only to find himself in a struggle to make the cut at last year's event. He went on to finish in a tie for 45th before missing the U.S. Open with a foot injury and missing the cut at the PGA Championship.

Since earning his first top-10 finish at the Masters in 2018, Jon Rahm has the best score to par at Augusta National while recording five top-10 finishes in seven starts.

A tie for seventh at the Open Championship was his saving grace in 2024.

«Not my favorite major season last year,» Rahm said. «I think last year, the state of my game was being unfairly judged based on how I played here and at the PGA compared to how I really played throughout the whole year. While I understand why, I don't think it was the most fair state of my game.… „[I] feel like I'm playing much better golf coming into this week.“

Since joining LIV in December 2023, Rahm has finished inside the top 10 — including two wins — in 17 of the 18 events he has played on the circuit. But, as he admitted ahead of this year's Masters, last season was a new experience for him while having to juggle personal and professional changes.

»Last year, for me, was tough because it was