Rahm gets LIV Golf team win

NEWCOMER Jon Rahm and his team, Legion XIII, locked up the team victory in their LIV Golf debut. Fellow LIV debutant Tyrrell Hatton posted a final-round 7-under 64, Caleb Surratt shot a 4-under 67 and Zimbabwe’s Kieran Vincent had a 2-under 69.

Unfortunately for Rahm, the Spanish star’s bogey-bogey finish knocked him out of the running for a playoff, and his 70 was the lowest Sunday score on his team. But Legion XIII still finished 24 under for the week, four shots ahead of Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers GC.

Rahm said that he jokingly told Hatton on the range it would be a nice day for him to shoot a 64, which the Englishman then proceeded to fulfill.

“This team was just assembled Monday, I believe, Sunday or Monday,” Rahm said on LIV’s broadcast. “We come in and made an impact and everything was meant for that. We wanted to make a mark, make an impact, and I think everybody knows we’re a force to be reckoned with.”

Rahm tied with South Africa’s Dean Burmester for third at 10 under. Hatton (7 under) was tied for eighth, Surratt (5 under) tied for 13th and Vincent (3 over) tied for 38th.

It was Rahm’s first LIV Golf tournament experience since leaving the PGA Tour for the third-year league in the off-season.

“It’s very nice, in a day in which in any normal tournament I probably would have been upset at my finish, to actually have something to celebrate,” Rahm said, “and that is one of the big reasons why I decided to transition, to share the stage with those three guys, to share the golf course with all the other teams and compete for something else is what it’s all about. It means a lot.”