Masters champion Jon Rahm still wishing for an off-season
- Doug Mattushek
- 16 August 2023
Jon Rahm is hoping he can carve out some time from a relentless schedule to have an off-season.
It's tough at the top, just ask Jon Rahm...
The world number three has featured in 17 events in 2023. But with Rahm's last missed cut coming in October 2021, that's a lot of golf. It's hard to get the weekends off when you're just that good.
And 2023 isn't going to end quietly for Rahm, as he has the business end of the FedEx Cup to compete in before jetting off to France for the Ryder Cup circus.
Speaking to the press ahead of this week's BMW Championship, Rahm - who also has two toddlers - longed for quieter days.
"I've been comfortable the last few years playing around 22, 23 events, but I can tell you I'm one of those players that wishes we could have an actual off-season, and with the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour coming together closer, I'm hoping I get to a point where maybe October, November, December, there's no events for me to play," said the Spaniard, as per Golf Monthly.
"I can be home and be dad and earn an off-season like basically almost every other athlete in this country can do."
After winning the Masters in April, Rahm alluded that a packed schedule was getting tough to deal with, but also acknowledged that it come with the territory.
"You know, I wish I could say one week off was enough," the 28-year-old said at the time.
"It was a long Masters and then went right away to RBC, so it wasn't - I wish I could have rested a little more, but it is the life we signed up for."
Rahm is set to tee off alongside world number one Scottie Scheffler at the Olympia Fields North Course on Thursday.
