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As Monday dawns, Jon Rahm is the new No. 1 golfer in the world. But if you made that assumption as the Memorial Tournament reached the turn Sunday, and then flipped off your TV ... well, you might not grasp the twists and turns that emerged on the Spaniard's path to victory and ascension.
With a more potent field and stout setup at Muirfield Village, it figured to be a notable week at Jack Nicklaus' PGA Tour event. Rahm's victory, Ron Green Jr. says, came during the most important week of this pandemic-interrupted season.
And in other developments from central Ohio, Tiger Woods emerged from his five-month break from competition with a performance that was uneven at best, and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said he is not certain when galleries will reappear at tournaments.
Ladies European Tour rookie Leonie Harm from Germany is not alone in seeing her season interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Lewine Mair reports, but the 22-year-old biochemistry graduate might be the only golfer actively working toward the development of a vaccine to fight the disease.
Meanwhile, in the second week back for the European Tour, Joël Stalter of France rallied to win for the first time on that circuit, claiming a two-stroke victory at the Euram Bank Open in Austria.
With high-level amateur tournaments picking back up, McClure Meissner of Texas charged to a victory at the 114th Southern Amateur, while North Carolina's Rachel Kuehn won in a playoff at the 118th North & South Women's Amateur.
And in this week's Divot, John Steinbreder reflects on some of the perks of his profession that have gone missing as the pandemic has worn on.
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