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Major disaster for No.1 Rahm with six-over 76 to open PGA

World number one Jon Rahm of Spain, the reigning Masters champion, reacts after finishing a six-over par 76 opening round at the PGA Championship at Oak Hill. (Photo: AFP)

ROCHESTER (UNITED STATES): Top-ranked Jon Rahm showed no trace of the magical form he used to win the Masters, struggling to a six-over par 76 in Thursday’s opening round of the PGA Championship.

The 28-year-old Spaniard stumbled in with two birdies, six bogeys and a double bogey at Oak Hill to stand 10 strokes adrift of clubhouse leader Bryson DeChambeau.

Rahm has won four PGA Tour titles this year and captured the green jacket last month at Augusta National for his second major title, enduring a 30-hole marathon on what would have been the 66th birthday of…

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