Jon Rahm ended his first season with LIV Golf together with his second match win in three begins to safe the season-long particular person championship.
The Legion XIII captain by no means completed out the top-10 in his 12 begins since December.
“I wouldn’t say it exceeded my expectations, however it positively met what I anticipated,” mentioned Rahm, who scooped a $22m pay day due to his victory at Bolingbrook Golf Membership in Chicago and the general title.
The 29-year-old Spanish star shot a 4-under 66 on Sunday to carry off Joaquin Niemann and Sergio Garcia by three photographs.
In capturing 11 below, Rahm performed bogey-free golf for the final 38 holes and suffered only one bogey all week whereas profitable for the second time. He additionally gained in LIV Golf UK in July and got here near profitable in Greenbrier final month, shedding in a playoff to Brooks Koepka.
The battle between Rahm and Niemann for the Particular person Championship was simply one in all a number of races to be decided on this week’s regular-season finale.
Closing seeds for Dallas had been finalised, with Crushers GC, Legion XIII and Ripper GC incomes the three byes for subsequent Friday’s quarter-finals.
“PRESSURE IS A PRIVILEGE”
With Rahm and Niemann ending 1-2 within the particular person standings, Garcia overtook Tyrrell Hatton for the ultimate bonus-earning spot on the rostrum. The margin between Garcia and Hatton, who completed solo fourth, was only one level.
Rahm entered the ultimate day with a three-stroke benefit over Niemann, who wanted to complete forward of Rahm on the leaderboard to win the championship.
Niemann began with birdies on two of his first three holes to use early strain, however Rahm by no means wavered. He made three birdies in his first 10 holes, after which made two consecutive par-saving putts on 11 and 12 to keep away from giving Niemann a gap.
A 3-putt par on the par-5 14th was the one detrimental of Rahm’s spherical, however he bounced again with a birdie at 17 to shut out any hopes of a late Niemann rally. The truth that the season’s three finest gamers completed on the high of the Chicago leaderboard was a becoming finale.
“You possibly can’t actually script it that significantly better?” Rahm mentioned. “It was positively a annoying day, however that strain is a privilege.”
Mentioned Niemann: “I knew I needed to do one thing nice, and I felt like I did. I performed wonderful golf. However I really feel wish to beat somebody like Jon Rahm, you’ve obtained to do issues higher.”
“It’s a unique feeling,” Rahm mentioned. “Simply with the ability to culminate all the great golf all season, and particularly doing it by profitable individually right this moment I believe is what makes it a lot extra particular. Understanding that I needed to win and getting it finished is one thing to actually be pleased with and one thing to mirror on.”
