2023 Masters winner Jon Rahm almost got confused by an NFL star, and JJ Watt has the text receipts to prove it

after Winning the 2023 Masters on Sunday, Jon Rahm decided to share some hilarious details about how he almost didn’t win because a good friend betrayed him before the tournament even started. The twist here is that his good friend was Cardinals tight end Zach Ertz.

After his victory at Augusta National, Rahm Turns out he got a text from Ertz Just before the first round on Thursday.

“For people who believe in jinxing,” Rahm said. “Thursday morning, as I was getting on the golf cart, going to the putting green 10 minutes before my tee time, I saw a message from a good friend of mine, and I’m going to call his name because he was at the Super Bowl. The winner is the champion, Zach Ertz.”

So where does wretchedness come from?

“He sent the text, and I’m going to paraphrase it here, but it said, ‘That first green feels like a walk in the park right now,’ 10 minutes before I started the tournament,” Rahm said. “So thanks, Zach. Please don’t do that again.”

Rahm won the Masters by finishing at 12 under, which is extremely impressive when you consider how his week started. As he said, he four-putted the first hole, which resulted in double bogey, so he was 2 over before even reaching the second hole.

Of course, since Rahm won the green jacket, Ertz probably didn’t feel any guilt for embarrassing his friend.

“I don’t apologize for anything,” Ertz wrote on twitter, “My friend, you can expect these lessons at every big step! Congratulations!”

The best part about all this is that JJ Watt decided to share the entire text thread on Twitter. Rahm did not mention Vought’s name after the win, but it appears Vought was in a text thread with both Rahm and Ertz.

In the text thread, Vought tells Rahm, “Pretend you’re playing with Zach and I. You’ll set the course record!”

Ertz then responded, “The first hole green looks like a walk in the park.”

Rahm only had one double bogey the entire tournament, and the fact that it came on a hole that Ertz specifically mentioned is ridiculous. It’s also funny that Watt also shared Ertz’s reaction to Rahm’s four-putt disaster.

“4 minutes to start the round… not ideal,” Ertz wrote in a text he sent only to Watt.

The good news for Rahm is that he played the final 71 holes at 14 under, which helped him win the tournament. Rahm actually finished two strokes behind the leader in the final round on Sunday, but he managed to win after shooting a 69, giving him a comfortable four-stroke victory over Brooks Koepka and Phil Mickelson, who were both at 8 under. Finished.

As Ertz mentioned, his lessons are now basically a reverse jinx, so it will be difficult to send him to Rahm before every major tournament from now on.