Jon Rahm pocketed a whopping $22million on Sunday by winning LIV Golf’s season points title and the league’s final individual event in Bolingbrook, Illinois.
Rahm closed the round at 4-under 66 to net a $4million winner’s check from the weekend.
The season points title added a further $18million to his wallet.
It was Rahm’s second win in the Saudi-funded league, adding to his title in England last month.
He was the biggest name to join the Saudi-backed league last December and was in the top 10 at every LIV event he completed.
Jon Rahm poses with the Individual Championship Trophy after the final round of LIV Golf Chicago at Bolingbrook Golf Club
Rahm pocket a total of $22million from winning the event, which gave him the LIV season title
‘I wanted to do a good show and get it over the line. I’m really happy,’ said Rahm, who said he was nervous on the practice range. ‘To go bogey-free on the weekend, it’s quite spectacular.’
The win comes after the Spaniard, who signed an eye-watering $400million deal with LIV in December 2023, denied claims he wanted to leave the Saudi-backed breakaway league last month.
He won The Masters in the spring of 2023 and was also ranked No 3. in the world at the time, but had an up-and-down season this year and missed the cut at the PGA Championship.
Amid those struggles, an unnamed ‘veteran tour insider’ told Golf Digest’s Jaime Diaz in August that Rahm would be prepared to give the Saudis back their $400m if he could quit LIV Golf and rejoin the PGA Tour.
Rahm closed LIV Golf Chicago at 4-under 66 to win his second LIV title of his first season
However, Rahm later told the New York Post that there were no truth to those claims.
‘There’s zero validity to what any of that said,’ he said. ‘I don’t know where it came from.
‘I don’t know why they feel the need to say that some of us are unhappy when we’re not. It’s one of the things that frustrates me a little bit, the fact that they can claim that there’s a source and there’s zero truth to it.’
He continued, ‘I’m very comfortable with my decision, very happy with my decision, very, very eager for the future of my team and the league.’
Rahm missed a pair of short birdie putts on the back nine on Sunday that kept Joaquin Niemann and Sergio Garcia in the mix.
But then he holed a 12-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole that gave him a three-shot lead going to the last at Bolingbrook Golf Course.
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