{"id":48571,"date":"2026-08-10T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/48571\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:40:09","slug":"rahm-clinches-third-straight-liv-golf-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/48571\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahm clinches third straight LIV Golf championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story audio is generated using AI<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">By Agency Staff<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">What has seemed like a formality for much of the season became official on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Three years with LIV Golf and three straight individual championships for Jon Rahm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Spaniard didn\u2019t have a stellar week on the course at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, but that didn\u2019t stop him from clinching the 2026 season-long title on Sunday with one event to spare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rahm entered the week with a whopping 938.44 points, more than 200 clear of second-place Bryson DeChambeau. And while Rahm posted his worst finish of the season at LIV Golf New York, a T41 at 8 over par, DeChambeau failed to take advantage of the opportunity, tying for 38th at 7 over.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Individual Championship defended \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonRahmOfficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@JonRahmOfficial<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SU-ANN: &#8220;Jon, congratulations. It&#8217;s your third consecutive season-long title. When you look back at your season, regardless of what happened this week, what are you the most proud of?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RAHM: &#8220;Yeah, the last two weeks haven&#8217;t\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hZvdpzwxfN\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/hZvdpzwxfN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LIV Golf (@livgolf_league) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/livgolf_league\/status\/2086548338535522448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 9, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now there\u2019s no chance for DeChambeau or any other player to catch Rahm in the final regular-season event, LIV Golf Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s weird because in golf, it\u2019s something odd to have still one more tournament before things are done,\u201d Rahm said. \u201cMost season-long races, you have to wait until the last event because the last event counts so much. But it feels different this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rahm pointed out that in 2025, he claimed the season-long title without winning a single event. That was hardly the case this season; in his first six outings, Rahm won LIV Golf Hong Kong and LIV Golf Mexico City, placed second at three more events and finished fifth at the other, building an insurmountable lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cLast year, in my mind at least, even though it was a point system, it was a question mark with having not won, and it didn\u2019t feel the same. So this year to play as good as I did early on and have such a big lead that I can even enjoy not playing well this week and next week, it feels really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rahm, 31, has been one of the dominant figures in LIV Golf since joining the league ahead of the 2024 season. The other top players in that time have been DeChambeau and Chile\u2019s Joaquin Niemann, who picked up his league-record ninth individual title on Sunday in Bedminster, all coming in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve gone head-to-head with both of them quite a few times,\u201d Rahm said. \u201cThey\u2019ve won some; I\u2019ve won some. It\u2019s been quite interesting. It\u2019s been a lot of fun. The only thing we\u2019ve missed is one week where all three of us were firing on all cylinders, and we could have enjoyed that. That could have been quite a thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rahm said he\u2019ll try to enjoy the title (and the pursuant $18m prize) once he forgets about his tough week on the course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cProbably tonight once I get back home with the family,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve got a pretty long car ride to get back to where we\u2019re staying. I\u2019ll have time then for sure. Once I get over how bad I played this week, it\u2019ll be all right.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Field Level Media<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Story audio is generated using AI By Agency Staff What has seemed like a formality for much of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6946,87,18896,461,18895,18898,2119,528,81,18900,18899,18901,2874,8188,18897,18439],"class_list":["post-48571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jon-rahm","tag-2026-liv-golf-season","tag-bryson-dechambeau","tag-golf-individual-championship","tag-golf-news","tag-golf-season-title","tag-golf-season-long-title","tag-joaquin-niemann","tag-jon-rahm","tag-liv-golf","tag-liv-golf-2026","tag-liv-golf-bedminster","tag-liv-golf-championship","tag-professional-golf","tag-professional-golf-news","tag-rahm-season-long-title","tag-trump-national-golf-club-bedminster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}