In accordance with the specialised portal Tengolf.es, LIV Golf is about to make an essential signing official, one month earlier than the opening of the 2025 season. It’s the Northern Irishman Tom McKibbin, protégé of a Rory McIlroy who may be very essential of the circuit.
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All the pieces signifies that McKibbin will be a part of Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII group on a multi-year contract. The transfer comes simply weeks after the 22-year-old obtained his PGA Tour card as one of many high 10 gamers with no card within the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai. McKibbin will exchange the relegated Kieran Vincent to hitch Rahm’s group together with Englishman Tyrrell Hatton and American Caleb Surratt.
A good friend of McIlroy, McKibbin is at the moment ranked a hundred and tenth within the Official World Golf Rankings. His most up-to-date outcome was a T24 on the Alfred Dunhill Championship to shut out 2024, however McKibbin completed T10 on the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and T11 on the DP World Tour Championship. McKibbin has declined to debate his potential signing with LIV Golf throughout this week’s Workforce Cup in Abu Dhabi.
Jon Rahm Rodríguez (born November 10, 1994 in Barrika) is a Spanish golfer.
Already ranked no 1 within the novice golf world for a report 60 weeks, he reached the highest of the official rating after profitable the Memorial Event in July 2020, returning to the very best place after profitable the U.S. Open in June 2021: he was the primary Spaniard to triumph within the prestigious match.
He attended Arizona State College and gained 11 tournaments within the college area, second solely to Phil Mickelson who gained 16 titles. In 2015 he participated as an novice within the Phoenix Open, ending fifth[4]. On April 1, he grew to become first within the World Novice Golf Rating and remained there for 25 weeks, then regained the place and held it for an additional 35 weeks. He thus certified for the U.S. Open and the Open Championship of the next yr: within the first of the 2 tournaments he completed twenty-third, then turned skilled, concurrently dropping the appropriate to play within the Open.
The Quicken Loans Nationwide was his first occasion as knowledgeable and he completed third. The Canadian Open as an alternative noticed him end second. On the finish of the season he obtained a card for the 2017 PGA Tour. Rahm discovered his first success within the Farmers Insurance coverage Open because of an eagle on the ultimate gap[5], managing to enter the main tournaments of the world scene. On the Mexico Championship, an occasion of the World Golf Championships collection, he completed third, two pictures behind the winner Dustin Johnson[6], whereas within the second occasion, the Dell Applied sciences Match Play, he misplaced the ultimate towards Johnson himself. He then gained the Irish Open and the ultimate match of the European Tour season, the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, by six strokes, additionally taking house the Rookie of the Yr award.
