Rampaging Rahm now targets Seve hat-trick

A world-class champion on a world-class course. Jon Rahm rose to the top to win his second Dubai Duty Free Irish Open in three years with a stunning final-round 62 at Lahinch yesterday and immediately set his sights on matching his hero Seve Ballesteros’s feat of three victories in this hallowed tournament.

Capacity weekend crowds at Lahinch witnessed greatness from the Spanish 24-year-old, who followed a third-round, six-under-par 64 on Saturday with even better golf yesterday, an eight-under 62 that delivered a repeat of his 2017 success at Portstewart, a third Rolex Series victory and made Rahm the fastest to four European Tour wins in more than 40 years, having also won the DP World Tour Championship in 2017 and the Spanish Open in 2018.