This Friday, the LIV Golf Chicago begins at Bolingbrook Golf Club, where it will be decided who will succeed Talor Gooch as individual champion of LIV Golf. The title will be played between Jon Rahm and Joaquín Niemann, who have been the most consistent players this season in the super league promoted by Saudi capital.
Whoever finishes in first place in the general classification will pocket a prize of 18 million dollars, not counting everything accumulated during the season and what the final team event in Dallas may bring.
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With his second place at the LIV Greenbrier, the ‘Lion of Barrika’ surpassed Niemann in the annual table for the first time in the entire year.
It should be remembered that the Spaniard was unable to compete in the Houston tournament due to an infection in his finger. In any case, the captain of the Legion XIII will start in Chicago with 195.15 points compared to the 192.20 of the ‘boss’ of Torque GC.
Tyrrell Hatton is third with 143.49, and this means that only Jon and ‘Joaco’ are in contention for the big prize. A victory by either of them would be definitive, but the combinations are numerous at this point, as it should be noted that the winner of each tournament scores 40 points; the second 30; the third 24; the fourth 18; or the fifth 16 (only the first 24 score points).
In the case of ‘Rahmbo’, this has been a year of adaptation to a new circuit and a competition system different from what he was used to. Jon has only been able to score one victory (LIV UK), but he has achieved seven ‘top 5’ finishes in total.
If we talk about statistics, the Biscayan leads for example in birdies per round, an average of 5.24 compared to Niemann’s 4.89. The Basque also leads the list of greens in regulation (who reaches the green in fewer strokes).
During Wednesday’s press conference, Rahm and Niemann were told about the virtues of such a piece, and the truth is that it is breathtaking and looks very pretty: “It has 5.78 carats of white diamonds, 1.2 carats of natural green emeralds, green UV enamel details that glow in the dark, a hidden ball marker with an embossed QR code.
The QR code is permanently linked to the video of the winning moment so that the winner can relive and share their victory whenever they want. It also has one carat of black diamonds, 14-carat gold with a weight of 84.8 grams.” The Chilean player joked and said that such a ring could arouse the envy of his partner, while the ‘Lion of Barrika’ visualized it from a sporting perspective: “It doesn’t matter what it’s made of as long as I’m the one who has it.”