"It's a blessing to have welcomed our daughter Alaia Cahill Rahm into the world last week. Mom and baby are healthy and doing great, I can't wait to get home with them," Jon wrote on the X network.
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After finishing second on Sunday at the Spanish Open, this week the Basque player is playing the Alfred Dunhill Links Championships on three courses in Scotland: Saint Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns.
The Basque player had a busy few hours last week. Rahm was in Scottsdale (Arizona) earlier this week, where his wife, Kelley Cahill, gave birth to a girl - the third after two boys - and on Tuesday he got on a plane and crossed half the world to land on Wednesday morning at the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid.
He attended Arizona State University and won 11 college tournaments, second only to Phil Mickelson who won 16 titles. In 2015, he participated as an amateur in the Phoenix Open, finishing fifth. On April 1, he became first in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and remained there for 25 weeks, then regained the position and held it for another 35 weeks.
He thus qualified for the U.S. Open and the Open Championship the following year: in the first of the two tournaments, he finished twenty-third, then turned professional, simultaneously losing the right to play in the Open.
The Quicken Loans National was his first event as a professional and he finished third. The Canadian Open instead saw him finish second. At the end of the season he obtained a card for the 2017 PGA Tour. Rahm found his first success in the Farmers Insurance Open thanks to an eagle on the last hole[5], managing to enter the major tournaments of the world scene.
At the Mexico Championship, an event of the World Golf Championships series, he finished third, two shots behind the winner Dustin Johnson[6], while in the second event, the Dell Technologies Match Play, he lost the final against Johnson himself.
He then won the Irish Open and the final tournament of the European Tour season, the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, by six shots, also winning the rookie of the year award. He began 2018 with a second place at the Tournament of Champions, again behind Dustin Johnson, but then came the triumph at the CareerBuilder Challenge with which he reached the second position in the ranking: he followed that at the Spanish Open and that at the 2018 Ryder Cup together with the European team.
He ended the year by also obtaining the title at the Hero World Challenge in December. In 2019 he achieved success at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans and third place at the U.S. Open. He then returned to win the Irish Open and defended the title at the Spanish Open.
At the end of the season he triumphed again at the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, thus finishing in the lead in the Race to Dubai and becoming Golfer of the Year of the European Tour.
