Jon Rahm pocketed a whopping $22 million on Sunday by winning the LIV Golf season-ending points title and the league’s final individual event in Bolingbrook, Illinois.
Rahm closed the round with a 4-under 66 to collect a $4 million winner’s check for the weekend.
The season points title added an additional $18 million to his wallet.
It was Rahm’s second win in the Saudi-funded league, adding to his title win in England last month.
He was the biggest name to join the Saudi-backed league last December and was a top 10 finisher at every LIV event he completed.
Jon Rahm poses with the individual championship trophy after the final round of LIV Golf Chicago at Bolingbrook Golf Club
Rahm pocketed a total of $22 million for winning the event, which gave him the Season LIV title.
“I wanted to put on a good show and do it. I’m very happy,” said Rahm, who said he was nervous on the driving range. “Not making a bogey over the weekend is something spectacular.”
The victory comes after the Spaniard, who signed a $400 million deal with LIV in December 2023, denied claims he wanted to leave the Saudi-backed breakaway league last month.
He won the Masters in the spring of 2023 and was also ranked No. 3 in the world at the time, but he had an up-and-down season this year and failed to make the cut at the PGA Championship.
Amid those struggles, an unnamed “veteran tour source” told Golf Digest’s Jaime Diaz in August that Rahm would be willing to pay the Saudis back their $400 million if he could leave LIV Golf and rejoin the PGA Tour.
Rahm closed LIV Golf Chicago with a 4-under 66 to win his second LIV title of his first season
However, Rahm later told The New York Post that there was no truth in those statements.
“What is being said here has no validity,” he said. “I don’t know where it came from.”
“I don’t know why they feel the need to say that some of us are unhappy when we’re not. That’s one of the things that frustrates me a little bit, the fact that they can claim that there’s a source and there’s no truth to it.”
He continued: “I feel very comfortable with my decision, very happy with my decision, very, very excited about the future of my team and the league.”
Rahm missed a pair of short birdie putts on the back nine Sunday that kept Joaquin Niemann and Sergio Garcia in the mix.
But then he holed a 12-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole that gave him a three-shot lead heading into the final hole at Bolingbrook Golf Course.
