🚨 Jon Rahm Tests Positive for COVID-19, Forced to WD at the Memorial (6/5)

The First Cut Golf

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4.4 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0	Freaking first cut.
0:06.6	Golly.
0:12.8	Welcome to the first cut podcast.
0:14.5	I'm Rick Gaiman, and this is an emergency pod recorded after round three of the memorial
0:20.4	off of the breaking news that John Rom has tested positive for COVID-19, and he has withdrawn from the event.
0:27.6	Joining me is Kyle Porter. K.P., welcome.
0:31.7	Yeah, fresh in from, I was on a little vacation this weekend.
0:35.6	I was driving in thinking, okay, I've gotten until Sunday to kind of figure this, you know, I was on a little vacation this weekend. I was driving in thinking, okay, I've got until Sunday to kind of figure this, you know,
0:41.1	I was actually writing about the tournament, but I hadn't done any podcasting or HQ or anything.
0:45.8	And then, boom, 30 minutes before I get home, John Rom.
0:51.2	Round of the year, almost.
0:54.5	The 64, he gained like nine and a half strokes on the field.
0:57.8	And then five minutes later, he's out of the time.
1:01.6	Call it the day of the year because he played, what, three or four holes this morning from his second round, made an ace, made another bird.
1:08.3	I mean, it was unbelievable.
1:13.5	The roller coaster, we'll get to all of that. So here's what happens.
1:15.1	I mean, we were, we were wrapping this up.
1:16.7	CBS was literally signing off.
1:18.2	They were saying goodbye.
1:19.1	John Rom had just tapped in or just made par on his final hole of the day.
1:24.3	And he gets approached Greenside by some men in masks and receives some very obviously
1:32.9	devastating news because he hunches over. He almost, you know, he squats down. It's obviously
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