JON RAHM won the U.S. Open on Sunday, shooting a final-round 67 at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego to capture his first major championship.

Rahm, 26, is ranked No. 3 in the world, and is the first Spaniard to win the golf tournament. Earlier this month, he tested positive for COVID-19 and had to withdraw from the Memorial Tournament.

No one had ever birdied the last two holes to win the U.S. Open by one shot in the previous 120 editions of the toughest test in golf until Rahm’s storybook finish.

“It had to happen in a beautiful setting like this,” he said.

On Father’s Day, with his 10-week-old son in his arms and his father having flown in from Spain to witness his son winning his first major to return to No. 1 in the world.

“It felt like such a fairy tale story that I knew it was going to have a happy ending,” Rahm said after those two career-changing birdies gave him a 4-under 67.

“I could just tell, going down the fairway after that first tee shot, that second shot, and that birdie, I knew there was something special in the air. I could just feel it.

“I just knew that I could do it and believed it.”

“Little man, you have no idea what this means right now,” Rahm said to his son.

The final round was so tight that six players had a share of the lead at some point, and there were 10 players separated by a single shot.

Louis Oosthuizen, who had a two-shot lead after his 30-foot birdie putt on No. 10, was the last to fall.

Trailing by one shot, Oosthuizen drove into the canyon left of the 17th fairway for a bogey that left him two shots behind, and then he missed the fairway on the par-5 18th that kept him from going for the green for a look at eagle to force a playoff. He settled for a birdie and a 71. It was his second straight runner-up in a major.(SD-Agencies)