Jon Rahm, 29, will begin the final day of the LIV Golf in Chicago this Sunday in a wonderful place to complete as the #1 of the season and pocket the bonus of 18 million {dollars}, 16.32 million euros on the present alternate price.
Jon Rahm, outcomes
With six birdies with out a miss, the Basque participant has signed a unprecedented second spherical of 64 strokes and is the chief with 133 complete (-7), three forward of JoaquÃn Niemann (68), his solely rival within the combat for the throne, who shares the 4th place earlier than the decisive day.
If the Chilean finishes within the top-15, Rahm must equal or enhance that outcome. The Chilean additionally has an opportunity of the title if he’s sixteenth or seventeenth, however then Jon ought to not rating factors and, due to this fact, end twenty fifth, an unimaginable state of affairs after his nice efficiency on Saturday.
Sergio GarcÃa has rounded off the Spanish pageant in Chicago by delivering one other sensational 65-stroke card (5 birdies with out bogeys) and coming in second, one stroke behind Rahm. Third is the American Brooks Koepka, who has gone from his prodigious 62 on Friday to a mediocre 73 on his second spherical.
The winner in Chicago, as in all of the tournaments of the Saudi Tremendous League, will take house a person prize of 4 million {dollars} (3.62 million euros). If Rahm wins the championship, he would earn $22 million on Sunday as a result of he would safe the $18 million bonus reserved for the No.
1 choose in 2024. As well as, the champion group will share one other $3 million amongst its 4 gamers. LIV Golf is knowledgeable males’s golf circuit created in 2021, the primary version of which was held in 2022. The creation of this worldwide circuit goals to revive the picture of Saudi Arabia led by Mohammed bin Salman by sport referred to as “sportswashing” and “delicate energy”.
Funded by the Saudi Arabian Public Funding Fund (PIF) whose director is Yasir Al-Rumayyan with the previous Australian golfer Greg Norman as basic director of the circuit, this closed circuit which selects its gamers based mostly on annual contracts presents itself as a dissident league to the PGA Tour and different circuits by poaching many gamers current on the planet’s prime 100.
The season is performed over fourteen occasions performed over three days and never 4 days in a 54-hole format with out a reduce, with a group rating. Among the many gamers who’ve joined this closed league are many Grand Slam event winners corresponding to Dustin Johnson, Charl Schwartzel, Henrik Stenson, Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed, Martin Kaymer, Bryson DeChambeau, Sergio GarcÃa, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, Louis Oosthuizen and Jon Rahm.
This brings a confrontation between the PGA Tour loyalists corresponding to Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy and the dissident gamers.
