Rahm demonstrates his enormous talent: individual and team champion of LIV Golf 2025
“When I met Jon at the age of 17, I knew the golf world was about to witness the birth of a new star,” said then LIV Golf commissioner and CEO Greg Norman[cite: 156] in December 2023. Jon has consistently ratified that he is one of the best players in the world. “He is a generational talent who has proven his merit as a multiple tournament champion.”[cite: 167, 168].
Rahm’s departure from the PGA Tour, at that time number 3 in the world, had an incentive that was very difficult to avoid: a contract for 525 million dollars [cite: 171]. To that figure, the Basque has been adding a good amount of millions throughout the two seasons he has completed in LIV Golf: 18 million dollars for becoming this year’s individual champion and another 1.4 million for winning the team title with Legion XIII [cite: 172, 173, 174]. In total he has pocketed almost $35 million in prize money this season[cite: 175].
In 2016, Rahm made the leap to professionalism, where he has 19 victories to date (11 on the PGA Tour and 8 on the DP World Tour), including the US Open and the Masters[cite: 195, 217]. In July 2020, Rahm became the number one in world golf after winning the Memorial Tournament, 31 years after his admired Seve led it [cite: 241, 252, 253]. Rahm is the only European player to have won the US Open and the Augusta Masters [cite: 364].
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