He has an arduous task and some tough opponents to face over the next four days, but he also has plenty of incentives to display his best skills and try to add another title to his brilliant career. Apart from the points at stake in his race to unseat Dustin Johnson at the top of the world ranking and the insurmountable sensation of winning, Jon Rahm could surpass this week the ten million dollar mark in earnings in the American Tour. He currently accumulates 9,132,330 dollars on the PGA Tour (he is the 192nd player in order of earnings throughout his career, a ranking led by Tiger Woods, with 110 million dollars), and the prize for the winner of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am exceeds one million dollars, specifically 1,332,000.
If we add to his earnings those obtained in exclusive tournaments of the European Tour, the player from Barrika has already surpassed the seven-digit monetary barrier, especially thanks to his victories in the Irish Open and the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, where he pocketed more than one million euros for each of his victories.
For this week’s tournament, Rahm’s expectations are high, and this is attested by the fans’ bets. One of the main companies in the sector places as favorite to win the current world number one, Dustin Johnson (+550), and then, with the same bettors’ preferences (+1000), Rahm, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day. They are followed at a short distance (+1100) by Jordan Spieth, defending champion this week at Pebble Beach, and then Gary Woodland (+2500), Paul Casey (+2800), Phil Mickelson (+2800), Matt Kuchar (+3300) and Pat Perez (+3300).
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