{"id":1251887,"date":"2024-06-11T15:20:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/?p=1251887"},"modified":"2024-06-12T15:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T15:38:22","slug":"jon-rahm-injury-casts-doubt-on-us-open-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/jon-rahm-injury-casts-doubt-on-us-open-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm injury casts doubt on US Open participation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former champion Jon Rahm admits he is unsure if he will be able to compete in the 124th US Open due to a foot injury.<\/p>\n

Rahm withdrew from the LIV Golf League event in Houston during Saturday\u2019s second round because of an infection in his left foot and arrived for his pre-tournament press conference at Pinehurst<\/span><\/strong><\/a> wearing one shoe and one flip-flop.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a concern,\u201d the 2021 winner said. \u201cIt\u2019s doing better. But definitely still in pain.<\/p>\n

\u201cCould I have dragged myself out there (on Saturday) and posted some kind of a score? Yeah.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it was getting to a point where I wasn\u2019t making the swings I wanted to make, and I could have hurt other parts of my swing just because of the pain. As to right now (playing) this week, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked how he had suffered the injury, Rahm added: \u201cWe\u2019ve been trying to figure it out because I think that the closest term would be a lesion on the skin. If I were to show you, it\u2019s a little hole in between my pinky toe and the next toe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how or what happened, but it got infected. The pain was high. On the Saturday round, Saturday morning, I did get a (painkilling) shot to numb the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was supposed to last the whole round and by my second hole I was in pain already.<\/p>\n

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Jon Rahm is an injury doubt for the 124th US Open (Sue Ogrocki\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cThe infection was the worrisome part. The infection is now controlled, but there\u2019s still swelling and there\u2019s still pain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a reason I walked out here in a shoe and a flip-flop, trying to keep the area dry and trying to get that to heal as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I can only do what I can do. The human body can only work so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rahm will not play a practice round until Wednesday but can at least rely on his experience of playing the course a few weeks ago as he bids to improve on some poor results in this season\u2019s majors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in a happy place,\u201d insisted the former world number one, who was 45th in the defence of his Masters title and missed the cut in the US PGA.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like I\u2019ve been playing bad, even though a lot of you make it sound like I\u2019m playing bad. I\u2019ve had two bad weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been top 10 and had a chance to win in most of the tournaments I\u2019ve played, and then unfortunately Augusta and PGA wasn\u2019t my best showings. But, yeah, I\u2019m happy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it\u2019s been a wonderful career so far. And, yeah, it hasn\u2019t been the best first half of the year, but there\u2019s been many times where I haven\u2019t had a great start, but that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t have a great finish.\u201d<\/p>\n