McIlroy wins the CJ Cup; Rahm, fourth to 3 strokes

Euskaraz irakurri: McIlroyk irabazi du CJ Cup txapelketa; Rahm, laugarren, 3 kolpera

the northern irish Rory McIlroy was proclaimed this Sunday champion of the CJ Cup and became the new number one in the world while the Biscayan Jon Rahm, who reached the last day as one of the great candidates for the title, finished in fourth position, three strokes behind the winner.

McIlroywho also won this tournament last year, finished his performance at 17 under par (-4 this Sunday).

Behind him stood the American Kurt Kitayama (-16 in total, -4 in the last day) and the South Korean K H Lee (-15 accumulated, -3 this Sunday).

In a great moment of form and recent winner of the FedEx Cup, McIlroynew world number one instead of the American scottie schefflerstarted Sunday with a stroke advantage over Kitayama, read Y Rahm.

But the one from Barrika could only get -2 this Sunday (four birdies and two bogeys) and closed his performance with -14, three strokes behind the champion.

Rahm He became the leader on Friday after an extraordinary -9 but finally McIlroy was the strongest in this tournament played in Ridgelands (South Carolina, USA).