Rahm to prevent Niemann’s coronation

After his Olympic failure this weekend at The Old White of The Greenbrier (Virginia), Jon Rahm’s mission is to prevent Joaquín Niemann from being declared the third overall winner of the LIV Golf, the Saudi Arabian competition that produced American Talor Gooch last year.

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The 25-year-old Niemann won his first professional tournament outside Chile at the Greenbrier and his victories this year at Mayakoba and Jedah now take him to the top of the standings, where the Spaniard is second.

The simplest combination is that he is champion and Rahm is not second, and there are many more scenarios depending on their positions. Besides the two, Tyrrell Hatton, Sergio García, Louis Oosthuizen and Cameron Smith still have a chance to finish first with one event left, from September 13-15 in Chicago.

The team championship is held a week later. In Greenbrier, Bryson DeChambeau defends his title and with the Olympic break, the last two victories have been Spanish, Sergio Garcia in Valderrama and Rahm in the United Kingdom, with Niemann just one stroke behind.

The American, the Spaniard and the Chilean will start in the same group on Friday from 19:15. “I have good memories here and I will try to repeat them. There are many players who try to take the number one spot from me, and that is a challenge and a motivation for me,” Niemann explained in the preview.

Jon Rahm Rodríguez (born 10 November 1994 in Barrica, Vizcaya) is a Spanish professional golfer, currently ranked number 10 in the world. He has held the World Amateur Golf Ranking number one position for 60 weeks, an all-time record for number one in that ranking.

He began his professional career in 2016, the year he competed in the United States Open, a tournament he would not win until five years later, on June 20, 2021. He is the first Spanish golfer to win this tournament.

In 2017, he was crowned champion of the San Diego Open, the Irish Open and the Dubai World Championship. On July 19, 2020, he won the Memorial Tournament (Ohio) and reached the number one position in the PGA world golf ranking, dethroning Rory McIlroy and becoming the twenty-fourth number one in history, the tenth European and the second Spaniard after Severiano Ballesteros.