Jon Rahm finished the LIV Golf season Sunday in style — claiming his third straight season points title and his second team crown in a row at the revised season finale in suburban Indianapolis.
Now the 31-year-old Spaniard is ready to head home and contemplate the future.
“I’m looking forward to going home and helping my very pregnant wife with the kids,” Rahm said. “The fourth one is due in October, and I’m happy to be dad for a few days before I get back to grinding for the Irish Open, and mainly looking forward to a haircut because I need one badly.”
Rahm closed with a 7-under 63 for his second straight runner-up finish in Indy. He ended up a stroke behind 22-year-old Michael La Sasso, the 2025 NCAA individual champ at Mississippi. La Sasso finished with a 65 to get to 18 under.
Despite the historic flooding in central Indiana that forced organizers to improvise how to get spectators parked and shuttled to The Club at Chatham Hills, in many ways things went off largely as expected.
Organizers set up electronic scoreboards and video boards as well as temporary suites around the course. There were advertising signs for Riyadh Air and other sponsors, chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” as La Sossa rolled in his 2-foot putt on No. 18 to secure the win and the celebratory champaign spray.
Those who attended last year’s first tourney at The Club at Chatham Hills thought things went even better at the expanded four-round event.
“It was more well managed from the way they had the ropes set up, just getting in a little cleaner with the traffic so the operation itself was more smooth than last year,” Westfield resident Jacob Meyer said.
Meyer’s friend, Jackson Gangwer, added: “It’s just more relaxed. Last year it seemed a little more intense since it was the first year being out here.”
Last year’s attendance for the three-round event drew more than 60,000 fans, an American record for a LIV event. Organizers did not announce this year’s tournament.
But the tour brought top-flight men’s golf back to metropolitan Indianapolis for the first time since it hosted the 2012 and 2016 BMW Championships, and it opened the door a new group of fans, some of whom had never attended a major pro event.
And after playing in front of the Indy fans each of the past two years, Rahm had a message for those who came back.
“I just want to say think you. It’s been incredibly fun to play in front of a crowd this enthusiastic,” Rahm said. “I’m sure everybody here has friends, family or themselves who have had to deal with some of the flooding issues and you know my heart goes out to all those people that lost their homes and lost loved. But the fact so many people came out and supported us means a lot.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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