No. 1 Rahm on missed 10-inch putt: 'Very odd'
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ESPNMar 3, 2022, 07:35 PM ETJon Rahm doesn't miss much on the PGA Tour -- especially not from 10 inches.But it happened Thursday during the opening round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.The world No. 1 went to clean up a 10-inch putt for par on the par-3 seventh hole, decelerated his putter just before contact and watched his ball barely make it halfway to the hole. He quickly knocked in the follow-up putt for bogey, then was left to rue what the PGA Tour called the shortest missed putt of the season by any player."I wish I could give you all the excuses in the world, but no, it's as simple as it just didn't feel good in my hands, and I tried to stop, and I didn't. I just simply didn't stop," Rahm told reporters afterward in Orlando, Florida. "I don't know. It was very odd."I've seen many things. I've seen the putter get a little stuck on a blade of grass on the way back and do something funky, hit the ground before because you're not paying attention. I've seen so many things from a...