Sergio and Rahm, second and third at the LIV Golf Mayakoba

Sergio Garcia has lost his first victory in the LIV Golf Tour in the fourth playoff hole, where he has been surpassed by the Chilean Joaquin Niemann, with whom he had tied with twelve strokes under par at El Camaleón Golf Club (Mexico). Jon Rahm, third, kept his chances of victory until the end.
The golfer from Castellón signed a very solid final round, with six birdies and a single bogey, to oust Niemann from the lead for much of Sunday. However, the Chilean, boosted by the 59 of his first round, rebounded with a birdie on the 16th hole that helped him win the playoff.
In that play-off, Niemann was finer and took the victory with a good two-meter putt on the fourth extra hole.

It was a drama-filled Sunday at El Camaleón, and it began even before the first tee shot was taken when Niemann’s 4-stroke 36-hole lead was cut to two strokes due to a rules violation related to the incorrect relay in Saturday’s round.
Sergio took home $2,087,000 for his individual performance, while Niemann pocketed €3,710,000 ($4 million) for his victory.

Also Jon Rahm (-10), whose debut on the circuit was the talk of the week, had his chances of victory until the end, but escaped with two bogeys on the last two holes. In the end, third place for him and victory for his team, Legion XIII (-24). Tyrrell Hatton, Caleb Surratt and Kieran Vincent are his teammates.
“It’s very nice on a day when, in any normal tournament, I probably would have been upset about my finish to have something to celebrate,” said Rahm, the reigning Masters champion who joined LIV Golf in December. “That’s one of the main reasons I decided to make the transition.”
Rahm pocketed nearly €1,850,000 for his performance: €1,160,000 for finishing third and €695,000 for his team’s victory.
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Also worth mentioning is the role of the other two Spaniards in play, Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra (+1) and David Puig (+3). Neither of the two has managed to subtract the field on the final day.
Thus, Sergio Garcia has been a step away from what would have been the second Spanish victory in the Saudi circuit after the one obtained in 2022 by a Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra recently landed in professionalism. The Spaniard won in Bangkok, beating the American Patrick Reed in a tight final.