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Slamming toilet door ruffles Jon Rahm
Toilet door disturbance costs the Spaniard a chance against Dustin Johnson at the WGC-Dell Match Play
Miami — Jon Rahm blamed a loud noise, reported as a slamming portable toilet door, for a poor chip shot at the final hole that cost him a chance of forcing extra holes in his final against Dustin Johnson at the WGC-Dell Match Play. Rahm was just starting his back swing for the 80-foot shot at Austin Country Club in Texas on Sunday when a sudden noise reverberated across the green. The 22-year-old Spaniard hit the ball fat and he reacted in disgust when it stopped barely halfway to the hole. "That’s absolutely why I missed it," Rahm told Golf Channel, referring to the noise, which NBC television said was a portable toilet door banging. "I lost focus with my head, chunked it and left it short." Rahm did not expect to hit his chip to tap-in distance, because he had to negotiate a ridge and a downhill slope but he expected to get it much closer than 30 feet. "The distance was impossible, but 10, 12, 15 feet for birdie is what I had in mind … and for that to happen is just unfortunate," ...
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