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GERARDO RIQUELME
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JRahm completed the conquest of the first ring at the LIV Golf, the 54-hole league that signed him with fanfare, trumpets and more than 500 million dollars in November. To confirm his dominance, he won the final stage of Chicago, the second victory of a season in which he has dominated the competition with extraordinary regularity. Of the thirteen tournaments, he has made 12 top 10s. In all except Houston when he had to withdraw with an injury to his left foot.
Barrika has thus fulfilled the expectations of those who bet on his figure at LIV Golf. Without those six fateful holes at the end of the Olympic competition in Paris 2024, when gold was within reach, his course would have found more praise than that which comes from those who applaud the league chaired by Greg Norman and in which several of the best players in the world are lined up.
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Winning the title has not been an exercise in the office. It has forced Rahm to develop a very remarkable level, especially in the second part of the season. There was a great game behind the 38 million dollars he has accumulated in prize money – 18 of them for winning the overall – so far with the team finals still to come.
The boss
Jon defended well the three-stroke lead he had on Saturday over Joaquín Niemann, The Chilean pushed hard, but Jon made pars with a brilliant short game and took advantage of most of the opportunities that came his way to always maintain a two-putt lead. For the second day he played without bogeys, like Sergio García, who finished second. And third overall, which earned him a four million bonus. Great year.
Koepka, Sergio and Rahm, on the last day
The Basque golfer added his second victory in Chicago. Just before Paris he won the LIV in London. Only Niemann has repeated his victory this season on the circuit. Now, with an early return to Arizona for the birth of his first daughter, the third in the saga, he will face the team final with the Legion XIII. And then he will pack his bags for Europe with stops in principle at the Acciona Open de España, Dunhill Links and Estrella Damm Andalucía Masters.
“I was nervous on this last day,” Jon explained. “But I remembered that the last time I had played with Sergio I had won at Valderrama, the last one with Brooks, I had won at Greenbier, Brooks had won, and this one had to be my turn.” Rahm stressed the second part of his season and his return to good play, as demonstrated by the fact that in the Chicago tournament he only made one bogey in three days. “It’s something spectacular.”
