As Jon Rahm was lining up a putt during the second round of the 2025 British Open, on-course reporter Smylie Kaufman unknowingly swore on live TV.

Jon Rahm’s two major championship victories have come on American soil and he has deep golf and familial ties to the States. But ask him what the Open Championship means to the Spaniard and his answer is both surprising and not.

Jon Rahm knows it has been 37 years since a Spaniard won The Open Championship, when Seve Ballesteros lifted his third Claret Jug in 1988.