Rahm is ready to head home and contemplate the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to going home and helping my very pregnant wife with the kids,\u201d Rahm said. \u201cThe fourth one is due in October, and I\u2019m happy to be dad for a few days before I get back to grinding for the Irish Open, and mainly looking forward to a haircut because I need one badly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rahm closed with a 7-under 63 for his second straight runner-up finish in Indy. He ended up a stroke behind 22-year-old Michael La Sasso, the 2025 NCAA individual champ at Mississippi. La Sasso finished with a 65 to get to 18 under.<\/p>\n
Clearly, there have been troubling signs for the LIV circuit in recent months.<\/p>\n
In April, it was announced Saudi Arabia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund would end its investment<\/a> in the league after this season. LIV spent more than $5 billion in five years, pulling some of the world\u2019s best and most popular American and international players away from other leagues.<\/p>\n Organisers also canceled two events this season \u2014 New Orleans in June and next weekend’s originally scheduled season-ending event in Michigan \u2014 as well the weekend entertainment.<\/p>\n LIV CEO Scott O\u2019Neil told reporters Wednesday he was bullish about plans for 2027 and beyond, saying players would be equity owners and have their commercial rights restored. O\u2019Neil said the plan was to have five team championships overseas and five individual tournaments in the United States scheduled close to the majors for those who qualify for them.<\/p>\n He did not name the lead investor with whom LIV has reached an agreement. Several outlets have identified him as Ted Goldthorpe of BC Partners, who met with the tour’s players on Tuesday. O\u2019Neil said there was a deadline for players to commit to LIV 2.0 without citing a specific date. He also has not mentioned the size of the proposed investment.<\/p>\n Though O’Neil said he has a \u201cgood level of confidence\u201d that a \u201ccritical mass of the right players” will return. Rahm is under contract through next season. Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> \u2014 the other big name \u2014 has an expiring contract this year. <\/a>He tied for third with Sergio Garcia<\/a> on Sunday and did not speak with reporters following Sunday’s event..<\/p>\n But with the season now over, there are only more questions.<\/p>\n “There\u2019s been a lot that\u2019s surrounded all of us pretty much since we joined, and at the end of the day when you step on the golf course, it\u2019s just golf,\u201d Rahm said after bogeying his last hole to open the door for La Sasso. \u201cSo all the problems and theories go away, and you compete. It hasn\u2019t been any harder or any easier in any way. It\u2019s just, kind of I think, the life of a pro athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the cloudy future and the historic flooding in central Indiana that forced organizers to improvise how to get spectators parked and shuttled to The Club at Chatham Hills, in many ways things went off largely as expected.<\/p>\n Organisers set up electronic scoreboards and video boards as well as temporary suites around the course. There were advertising signs for Riyadh Air and other sponsors, chants of \u201cU-S-A! U-S-A!\u201d as La Sasso rolled in his 2-foot putt on No. 18 to secure the win and the celebratory champagne spray.<\/p>\n Those who attended last year’s first tourney at The Club at Chatham Hills thought things went even better at the expanded four-round event.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was more well managed from the way they had the ropes set up, just getting in a little cleaner with the traffic so the operation itself was more smooth than last year,\u201d Westfield resident Jacob Meyer said.<\/p>\n Meyer’s friend, Jackson Gangwer, added: \u201cIt’s just more relaxed. Last year it seemed a little more intense since it was the first year being out here.\u201d<\/p>\n Last year’s attendance for the three-round event drew more than 60,000 fans, an American record for a LIV event. Organizers did not announce this year’s tournament.<\/p>\n But the tour brought top-flight men’s golf back to metropolitan Indianapolis for the first time since it hosted the 2012 and 2016 BMW Championships, and it opened the door a new group of fans, some of whom had never attended a major pro event.<\/p>\n If this is the end of the line for LIV Golf, it came in a fitting location \u2014 about 30 miles from the arena where the Indiana Pacers closed out their time in the American Basketball Association in 1976 and that hosted Elvis Presley’s final concert in 1977.<\/p>\n And after playing in front of the Indy fans each of the past two years, he had a message for those who came back.<\/p>\n \u201cI just want to say think you. It’s been incredibly fun to play in front of a crowd this enthusiastic,\u201d Rahm said. \u201cI’m sure everybody here has friends, family or themselves who have had to deal with some of the flooding issues and you know my heart goes out to all those people that lost their homes and lost loved. 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Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII claimed team season victory (Reuters)<\/p>\n![\"Bryson](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2291755383...jpeg\")
Bryson DeChambeau did not speak after LIV’s season finale (Getty)<\/p>\n![\"Michael](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2291754305...jpeg\")
Michael La Sasso signed off with victory in Indianapolis (Getty)<\/p>\n