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Jon Rahm holds the LIV Bolingbrook Trophy and won the season long Individual LIV championship for 2024. Photo courtesy of LIV Golf.
JON RAHM is a winner again.
Because closed the individual championship, with a 4 under par 66. Rahm defeated runner-up Joaquin Niemann and Sergio Garcia by three strokes.
Rahm won for the second time in three weeks. So it wasn’t a bad way to finish up his first season the LIV Golf tour.
Top 10’s were the norm for Rahm this season, when he completed all three days of the tournament. Rahm had to WD from the Houston tournament, with a cut on his foot. That was the injury that kept Rahm out of the U.S. Open at Pinehurst a week later.
But what led Rahm to a solid finished was his bogey free weekend in Rounds 2 and 3. Because the only bogey Rahm made all week came on Friday during Round 1. So there was a chance for Rahm to win yet another tournament. But he lost in a playoff to Brooks Koepka in August at the Greenbrier.
Gallery size ran from 15,000 to 16,000 on both weekend days. The largest galleries at LIV tournaments in America for the 2024 season.
Rahm could have lost on Sunday to Niemann without some steady play over the first 10 holes.
Because Niemann came roaring out of the blocks with birdies on two of the first three holes. So the pressure was on Rahm early on the front nine.
But Rahm spread out three birdies over the first holes, that were followed by two clutch par saving putts on holes 11 and 12.
Rahm got home in two shots on the par-5 14th hole, but promptly proceeded to three putt for par. But Rahm made up for that with a birdie on 17 to close out the tournament with a fist-pump and some emotion.
Niemann admitted he knew he would have to do something special if he was going to beat Rahm this week. While he felt like he did play great, it wasn’t good enough to take down Rahm. But Niemann did hit the longest drive of the day, 379.1 yards on the 14th hole.
But for Rahm what made the win so special was that, “I knew I had to win to win the season long championship. So then I went out and did it, which is something to really be proud of.”
Rahm said it was great to have another good week in Chicago. Because Rahm had previously won on the PGA Tour at Olympia Fields, in a playoff over LIV golfer Dustin Johnson. Rahm mentioned his good Top-5 play in 2019 at Medinah during the BMW championship. But Rahm said he would enjoy LIV Golf coming back to the windy city in 2025.
Team Crushers GC won the team championship in Bolingbrook, wrapping up the No.1 seed for the Team finals in Dallas next week. L-R Charles Howell, Paul Casey, Bryson DeChambeau and Anirban Lahiri.
TEAM CRUSHERS GC
The Team Crushers GC led by Captain Bryson Dechambeau, defeated Rahm’s Legion XIII team by 1 shot to win the team championship in Bolingbrook.
Anirban Lahari led the way on Sunday for Crushers GC with a 3 under par-67. DeChambeau carded a 68, with Casey in at 70 and Howell at 71. Fireballs GC was third two shots back of the Crushers.
Crushers GC had not won a tournament since their win in Hong Kong back in March. But Crushers GC did go back-to-back in Chicago. Because in 2023 DeChambeau won both the individual title and the team title at Rich Harvest Farms.
“It was time to prove a point,” said DeChambeau. “We wanted to prove that we are back, and we wanted momentum heading into next week”. So now we feel like we have put ourselves in a good place. Finishing Bolingbrook at 14 under par, was the second best team score of the year on the LIV Tour.
2025 in CHICAGO. Maybe not, while the LIV Golf players have enjoyed three years in the Chicago market. Two years at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, and one year at Bolingbrook. Next years LIV golf schedule seems to have Indianapolis as the fall Midwest stop on the schedule. There is some speculation that Speedway Golf Course located both next to, and with three holes in the middle of the Indy 500 speedway. Is the front runner to host the LIV tournament next September.
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