Liv Golf, Jon Rahm is the individual champion

Jon Rahm is the individual champion of LIV Golf 2024. The Spanish champion, one of the highest paid athletes in the world, has hit the nail on the head in his first year in the Arab Super League after a super end to the season that made up for an unexciting start.

Rahm, results

With the success in Chicago, his second feat of the season, he conquered the ring by beating the Chilean Joaquin Niemann in a photo finish. For the Basque a bonus of 18 million dollars. The former number 1 of the world earned a total of 38 million dollars this year.

He attended Arizona State University and won 11 college tournaments, trailing only Phil Mickelson’s 16 titles. In 2015, he competed as an amateur at the Phoenix Open, where he finished fifth.(4) On April 1, he became number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and remained there for 25 weeks, then regained the position and held it for another 35 weeks.

He thus qualified for the US Open and the Open Championship the following year, finishing 23rd in the first of the two tournaments, after which he turned pro and simultaneously lost his right to play in the Open.

The Quicken Loans National was his first event as a professional and he finished third. The Canadian Open, on the other hand, saw him finish second. At the end of the season, he was awarded a card for the 2017 PGA Tour. Rahm achieved his first success at the Farmers Insurance Open with an eagle on the final hole, and thus entered the major tournaments of the world.

At the Mexico Championship, part of the World Golf Championships, he finished third, two strokes behind winner Dustin Johnson. In the second event, the Dell Technologies Match Play, he lost the final to Johnson himself.

He went on to win the Irish Open and the final event of the European Tour season, the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, by six strokes, also winning the rookie of the year award. He began 2018 with a runner-up finish at the Tournament of Champions, again behind Dustin Johnson, but then came triumph at the CareerBuilder Challenge to move him to No. 2 in the rankings; he followed that up at the Spanish Open and at the 2018 Ryder Cup with the European team.

He closed out the year by also winning the Hero World Challenge title in December. In 2019, he enjoyed success at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans and a third place finish at the US Open. He then returned to win the Irish Open and defended the title at the Spanish Open.

At the end of the season, he triumphed again at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, leading the Race to Dubai and being named Golfer of the Year on the European Tour. In a year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Memorial Tournament title saw him reach the top of the world rankings, the second Spaniard in history to do so after Severiano Ballesteros.

In August, he also won the BMW Championship, defeating Dustin Johnson in the playoff. In June 2021, he was forced to forfeit the Memorial Tournament, where he was leading by six strokes at the end of the third round, after testing positive for COVID-19.

His first major triumph came on June 20, at the US Open. Open, thanks to two birdies on the last two holes. In July, he finished third at the Open Championship, tied with Louis Oosthuizen(. Then, in October, he triumphed for the second time in the 2023 Ryder Cup.

On December 8, 2023, it was announced that the Spanish golfer had made the switch from the PGA Tour to the Saudi LIV Golf circuit, with which he had signed a three-year participation contract with an estimated earnings of around 550 million euros.