Jon Rahm could not have entered the winner’s circle in 2025, however he however completed atop the leaderboard in a single place the place it mattered: LIV Golf’s season-long race. For the second straight yr, the two-time main champion claimed LIV Golf’s particular person crown, usurping Joaquín Niemann within the season finale to win the title.
The Spaniard fired a final-round 60 at LIV Golf Indianapolis to publish the clubhouse lead and safe the accolade earlier than Niemann’s teammate, Sebastián Muñoz, tied him with a clutch putt on his last gap. Muñoz went onto win the match on the primary playoff gap, however by then, Rahm had already gathered the mandatory factors to prime the Torque captain.
After capturing eight top-10 finishes in his first 9 begins of the season, Rahm caught fireplace to finish his sophomore marketing campaign on LIV Golf. He fell by one stroke to Talor Gooch in his house nation at LIV Golf Andalucia earlier than a top-five effort in the UK and one other runner-up rally in Chicago.
All in, Rahm’s 2025 résumé on LIV Golf featured 4 runner-ups, eight different prime 10 outcomes and a T11 at LIV Golf Dallas, the one match throughout his two seasons on LIV Golf wherein he failed to complete inside the highest 10.
In the meantime, Niemann will really feel like he let one get away given the quantity of profitable the Chilean did in 2025. The wiry proper hander entered the winner’s circle 5 instances on LIV Golf in 2025 and led the season-long race for almost all of the yr. He completed T4 at LIV Golf Indianapolis, however that marked his solely different prime 10 on the circuit within the eight tournaments that he didn’t increase the person trophy.
“It was fairly a present by Jon. I clearly performed with him right now, and I knew it was going to be an excellent battle,” Niemann stated. “It was going to be an extended day. I knew I wanted to play nicely. I knew Jon was enjoying superb golf these days. Everyone knows how good of a participant he’s, and yeah, he performed superb. I really feel like he did not miss many photographs, made plenty of putts, left his ball near the opening just about each time.
“I performed good. I began enjoying my finest golf on the again 9, which I am happy with it, however on the finish of the day, the putts did not drop, and it wasn’t sufficient. Yeah, it is form of onerous to swallow. However on the finish of the day, I feel it’s what it’s. I really feel like it should put one thing inside me to form of work tougher and attempt to be on this state of affairs once more subsequent yr and make it totally different.”
