Jon Rahm Sounds Off on Critics and OWGR After Historic Win in Dubai

Jon Rahm was pleased with his performance over the weekend, winning the DP World Tour Championship event in Dubai for a record third time and finishing 2022 with two wins and two more top-five finishes worldwide.

Couple that with one win on the PGA Tour in 2022, and Rahm said that he couldn’t care less about the critics saying that he had a down season this year.

Rahm said:

“Hopefully people can stop telling me that it was a bad year. Three wins worldwide, three wins in three different continents. Yeah, it wasn’t a Major Championship but it’s still a really, really good season.”

It did pale in comparison to 2021 when he won the U.S. Open and was ranked No. 1 in the world. But this time around, despite winning the Open de España, finishing second at the BMW PGA Championship, fourth in the CJ Cup, and the win here, his Official World Golf Ranking is unchanged.

Jon Rahm doubling down on OWGR criticism today:

“I’ve gone 2nd, 1st, 4th, 1st and I have not changed my World Ranking. I don’t know if that explains what I meant the other day but it should.”

From what I can tell, he has a point. 22 pts for Rahm’s win vs. 37 at RSM seems…off.

— Dylan Dethier (@dylan_dethier) November 20, 2022

Rahm said:

“I mean, I beat amazing players today. I don’t know if I can add any more to what I said [earlier in the week about the OWGR]. Maybe I was too far back, I don’t know. …I understand why they did the changes they made where it would be a perfect system and every single field is 150 – I’ll say one more time, we don’t get the same points for our win here, it’s a bit of a joke.”

Rahm is referring to Adam Svensson, who beat a much weaker field at the PGA Tour’s RSM Classic in Georgia, getting 37 OWGR points for his win compared to Rahm’s 21 for beating the likes of Rory McIlroy, Matt Fitzpatrick, and other major winners in Dubai.

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