Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times
DUBLIN, Ohio — Sometimes a reputation is hard to shake. Just ask Jon Rahm, who for years was best known as a good golfer with a bad temper. But on Sunday evening, Rahm became renowned for being something else: the world’s new No. 1 ranked golfer.
Rahm’s fits of pique on the PGA Tour were the stuff of legend when he turned pro four years ago after a decorated amateur career, with clubs kicked and thrown, a tee marker punched and a bunker rake irately flung over one shoulder.