{"id":774625,"date":"2026-09-18T10:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774625\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:54:17","slug":"2026-bmw-pga-championship-jon-rahm-shoots-78-ties-worst-round-on-dp-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774625\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 BMW PGA Championship: Jon Rahm shoots 78, ties worst round on DP World Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Rahm had an opening round to forget at the BMW PGA Championship on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time major winner posted a 6-over 78 at Wentworth Club to tie his highest round on the DP World Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm recorded just one birdie\u2014 at the par-5 12th hole \u2014 against five bogeys and a double. <\/p>\n<p>His second best chance at a circle came on the par-5 18th, but Rahm settled for his third straight par. He entered the clubhouse at T-136, just one shot ahead of Marcel Siem in dead last and 12 back of co-leaders Aaron Rai and Joakim Lagergren.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Brown was trending to hold that spot at 10 over through 15 holes but withdrew from the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/dp-world-tour\/news\/bmw-pga-championship-2026-field-format-and-how-to-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BMW PGA Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for Rahm, it marks his second 78 of the year \u2014 he notably <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/jon-rahm-career-worst-round-masters-2026-leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">went without a birdie in his opening round at the Masters,<\/a> the highest of his major championship career.<\/p>\n<p>His previous 78 in a regular DP World Tour event came in the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europeantour.com\/dpworld-tour\/estrella-damm-n-a-andalucia-masters-2021\/leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">opening round of the 2021 Andalucia Masters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"rahm-chats-liv-future-growing-family-and-ryder-cup\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rahm chats LIV future, growing family and Ryder Cup<\/p>\n<p>Jon Rahm spoke to the media ahead of the Amgen Irish Open about his future with LIV Golf, his growing family and the Ryder Cup next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm had an opening round to forget at the BMW PGA Championship on Thursday. The two-time major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}