Jon Rahm hit out at organizers of The Masters for his or her refusal to droop play as 40mph winds brought on chaos throughout Friday’s second spherical.
The defending champion snuck into the weekend – ending one shot beneath the reduce line – after a four-over-par 76 on Friday.
Rahm now sits 11 pictures off the leaders – Scottie Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau and Max Homa – after a brutal second day that noticed Augusta battered by the weather.
‘It is about as laborious a golf course as I’ve seen in a really very long time,’ Rahm stated.
‘A few instances I used to be questioning myself why we have been on the market. Particularly after I bought to 18 and noticed the entire entrance of the inexperienced simply filled with sand. It is rolling a little bit bit totally different.
Jon Rahm hit out at organizers of The Masters for his or her refusal to droop play on Friday
‘A few instances I used to be questioning myself why we have been on the market,’ the Spaniard stated
‘I perceive they need us to complete. I can think about they have been very near calling it a couple of instances, particularly after we have been on the eleventh inexperienced and we have been getting these huge gusts each couple of minutes or so. It was extraordinarily troublesome.’
Nobody within the area shot decrease than Ludvig Aberg’s three-under-par 69 on Friday, with solely eight gamers taking pictures beneath par.
Rahm’s hopes of retaining the inexperienced jacket are actually all-but over and the Spaniard was annoyed with the pace of play in such robust circumstances.
‘You simply put the ball down, and it’s extremely near transferring,’ he stated. ‘Not solely that, how lengthy did it take us to play?
‘Over six hours to play simply because they needed to blow the greens in between teams, after which while you get to a gaggle, individuals stepping again and again in. It is simply, once more, borderline. It was very, very shut.’
Rahm’s hopes of retaining the inexperienced jacket are actually all-but over after the second spherical
