SOUTHPORT, England \u2014 Jon Rahm was given a code-of-conduct warning Friday in the Open Championship for throwing his club after a poor tee shot on the par-3 15th hole, the third conduct ruling in the majors this year.<\/p>\n
The majors have been getting serious about conduct this year, collaborating on a policy but leaving each organization in charge of what it deems a serious offence.<\/p>\n
Rahm, who shot 3-under 67 and was four shots out of the lead, hit his tee shot left of the green on the 15th hole and flung his iron forward and it bounced a few times.<\/p>\n
The R&A said Rahm was issued the official warning \u201cunder The Open serious misconduct policy.\u201d The policy typically is in play for the entire tournament, meaning if there is another incident, it would be a two-shot penalty. The third violation is disqualification.<\/p>\n
Rahm said he didn’t think about his outburst until he saw an R&A official on the 17th hole.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he was walking up to me, I knew exactly what it was for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The USGA bypassed the warning and went straight to a two-shot penalty for\u00a0Joaquin Niemann in the first round of the U.S. Open\u00a0when on the sixth hole \u2014 his 15th of the round \u2014 he threw his wedge that travelled some 70 yards. With hardly any spectators, no one captured public video although officials would have had access from the ShotLink cameras.<\/p>\n
Rahm was paired with Sergio Garcia in the final round of the Masters\u00a0when Garcia hit a poor tee shot on the second hole and smashed his driver into the turf and against a bench\u00a0that was holding a water cooler. Garcia was issued an official warning.<\/p>\n
Rahm said before the tournament and on Friday after he finished his round that he was not about to change his nature.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t always love the word \u2019emotional.’ I\u2019m definitely more intense and passionate than a lot of the players out here, especially at work,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like I\u2019m going to … if I try to alter who I am too much, it might cost me a little bit on the course. But certainly shouldn\u2019t have moments like the one on 15. I get it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHPORT, England \u2014 Jon Rahm was given a code-of-conduct warning Friday in the Open Championship for throwing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-808925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}