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2024 LIV Golf UK prize money payouts for each player and team

Rahm gets a big payday again.

Jon Rahm is finally a winner on LIV Golf.

The Spaniard took home his first individual title in more than a year Sunday, topping Legion XIII teammate Tyrrell Hatton by a shot to win LIV Golf UK. With it, he also takes home $4 million in prize money and an additional piece of the $3 million his Legion XIII won in the team competition.

Hatton bogeyed the last hole, and while a par would’ve forced a playoff, he’s also due for a seven-figure payday. Joaquin Niemann and Cameron Smith also finished tied for second.

With $20 million up for grabs, check out how much money each player and team earned at 2024 LIV Golf UK.

Individual prize money

Position Player Score Earnings
1 Jon Rahm -13 $4,000,000
T2 Joaquin Niemann -12 $1,583,334
T2 Cameron Smith -12 $1,583,334
T2 Tyrrell Hatton -12 $1,583,334
5 Paul Casey -10 $800,000
T6 Cameron Tringale -9 $534,500
T6 Matthew Wolff -9 $534,500
T6 Talor Gooch -9 $534,500
T6 Louis Oosthuizen -9 $534,500
T6 Andy Ogletree -9 $534,500
T11 Bryson DeChambeau -8 $360,000
T11 Charl Schwartzel -8 $360,000
T11 David Puig -8 $360,000
T14 Richard Bland -7 $310,000
T14 Peter Uihlein -7 $310,000
T16 Adrian Meronk -6 $266,250
T16 Abraham Ancer -6 $266,250
T16 Scott Vincent -6 $266,250
T16 Brooks Koepka -6 $266,250
T20 Harold Varner III -5 $225,000
T20 Lucas Herbert -5 $225,000
T20 Dustin Johnson -5 $225,000
T20 Sergio Garcia -5 $225,000
T24 Matt Jones -4 $195,000
T24 Dean Burmester -4 $195,000
T24 Sebastian Munoz -4 $195,000
T27 Patrick Reed -3 $182,500
T27 Ian Poulter -3 $182,500
T29 Thomas Pieters -2 $167,500
T29 Graeme McDowell -2 $167,500
T29 Jason Kokrak -2 $167,500
T29 Carlos Ortiz -2 $167,500
33 Jinichiro Kozuma -1 $155,000
T34 John Catlin E $145,200
T34 Phil Mickelson E $145,200
T34 Mito Pereira E $145,200
T34 Kalle Samooja E $145,200
T34 Sam Horsfield E $145,200
T39 Anirban Lahiri 1 $136,500
T39 Bubba Watson 1 $136,500
T41 Caleb Surratt 2 $128,400
T41 Kieran Vincent 2 $128,400
T41 Eugenio Chacarra 2 $128,400
T41 Kevin Na 2 $128,400
T41 Henrik Stenson 2 $128,400
T46 Lee Westwood 3 $122,667
T46 Anthony Kim 3 $122,667
T46 Brendan Steele 3 $122,667
49 Martin Kaymer 4 $60,000
50 Danny Lee 5 $60,000
51 Brandon Grace 6 $60,000
52 Pat Perez 8 $50,000
53 Hudson Swafford 11 $50,000
– Wade Ormsby – $0

Team prize money

Position Team Score Earnings
1 Legion XIII -26 $3,000,000
2 Ripper GC -23 $1,500,000
3 Smash GC, Crushers GC -20 $250,000

 

Jon Rahm (finally) wins on LIV Golf, tops teammate Tyrrell Hatton by a shot

Now, Rahm heads to Paris to compete in the Olympic games.

It seems absurd that a player of Jon Rahm’s caliber hadn’t won since the Masters last year, but that has finally changed.

Rahm finally got the monkey off of his back, winning LIV Golf UK by a shot over teammate Tyrrell Hatton for his first victory since moving to LIV Golf League this season. Hatton bogeyed the final hole, missing a 6-foot par putt that would’ve forced a playoff between he and his Legion XIII captain.

Rahm hasn’t finished worse than T-10 since moving over to LIV, sitting at second in the season-long standings heading into the week, but he also hadn’t hoisted a trophy in more than a year. On Sunday, he shot 4-under 67 to finish at 13 under for the week at JCB Golf and Country Club, besting Hatton, Joaquin Niemann and Cameron Smith by a shot.

“Obviously you always want to win. Selfishly you always want to get that done,” Rahm said. “But you don’t want to see a teammate and a good friend missing a putt for that to happen for me.

“It’s a bit of an unusual situation that I don’t think any of us are used to. Team wins, I win individually, but still, having so much respect for Tyrrell, somebody who’s a good friend and somebody I’ve experienced a lot with — I can’t really celebrate because I still feel for him for finishing like that.

“Personally I will say a bit relieved, having top-tenned pretty much every time I’ve teed it up and given myself plenty of chances to win, and finally getting it done feels very good. Feels like I got a lot of weight off my shoulders on that one.”

On the par-3 17th, Rahm three-putted for bogey, falling back into a tie with Hatton. But then Hatton three-putted the 54th hole, opening the door for Rahm to win for the first time.

Legion XIII took home the team title, so Hatton isn’t exactly going home empty handed. He’ll get a share of the $3 million the team takes home for the win.

“I’m really happy for the guys to have a solid weekend and for us to win our fourth event as a team, but it doesn’t change how I feel towards my own individual performance,” Hatton said. “It sucks to bogey the last in front of your home crowd to effectively miss out on a playoff. That’s unfortunately the reality of my situation at the moment.”

Now, Rahm heads to Paris to compete in the Olympic games, where he’s one of the favorites to win a gold medal for Spain.

Marc Leishman withdraws from 2024 LIV Golf UK after being forced to a hospital

“Disappointed to have to WD this week but health always comes first.”

Australian Marc Leishman opened LIV Golf UK with a 2-under 69 Friday at JCB Golf and Country Club in Rocester, England.

However, his week took an unexpected turn when he had to get his appendix removed and was forced to withdraw from the Saudi Arabia-backed circuit’s 11th event of the season.

“Disappointed to have to WD this week but health always comes first. I came to England with an appendix and will leave without it! Appendicitis is no joke,” Leishman said in a social media post Saturday.

The Ripper GC member has three top-10 finishes in 10 previous LIV starts this season, highlighted by a runner-up at LIV Golf Singapore in May.

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Jon Rahm has lengthy staredown with rowdy fans at LIV Golf UK 2024

The fans just kept talking.

Jon Rahm had quite the Friday, shooting an opening-round 8-under 63 at LIV Golf UK at the JCB Golf and Country Club in Rocester, England. Despite his impressive results on the Saudi Arabia-backed circuit, the Spaniard has yet to break through for his first LIV win.

On Saturday, however, the vibes weren’t as good for the two-time major champion.

On the 16th hole, Rahm was agitated several times due to a rowdy crowd in the grandstands and had to back away from his golf ball on multiple occasions.

After his pitch shot came up short of the flag, Rahm went on to make a bogey.

Here’s a clip of the fan interaction.

Previously, Rahm was agitated at an event in Nashville when drones flew overhead while he was teeing off. Rahm’s tee shot sailed right into the water hazard, and before his ball reached his apex, he turned around and looked into the sky in disgust.

“Every tournament. It’s f—–g incredible. Right on my backswing. These f—–g drones every time,” the microphones caught the two-time major champion saying.

With the Olympics upon us, Paul Casey looks back at his ‘sobering’ but ‘unbelievable’ experience in Japan

Casey was reminiscing about his appearance in a 7-way playoff in 2021.

Paul Casey’s focus this week is LIV Golf UK as the JCB Golf and Country Club in Rocester, England, is less than 100 miles from Casey’s boyhood home in Cheltenham.

But the 2024 Paris Olympics got underway when thousands of Olympians cruised along the Seine River on Friday night. And that had Casey reminiscing about his appearance in the 2021 competition. The Brit was in the final group at Kasumigaseki Country Club in Saitama, about 35 miles northwest of downtown Tokyo. He trailed Xander Schauffele by just two heading into the final round, but Casey slipped down the board into a tie for third at the end. That forced a seven-way playoff with Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Hideki Matsuyama, Mito Pereira, C.T. Pan and Sebastian Munoz.

Pan finally captured the bronze by edging Morikawa on the fourth playoff hole.

For Casey, the opportunity to take part in such a wild and iconic golf moment was a treasure — but it also still held some pain.

“Let’s focus on the hard bit of the playoff. To finish at the time tied third and then walk away with the Olympics with nothing is pretty sobering,” Casey said. “But it gave me an understanding of what it’s like for Olympic athletes to sort of have something that you’ve worked so hard for, in our case, four years, and then sometimes your Olympic experience is quite humbling. In our sport obviously very different, we play almost week in and week out.

“On the bright side, I’ve never been a part of anything like that, to represent your country at any level, and I’ve done it at an amateur level right through to professional. The Olympics ranks right up there as one of the greatest things I’ve ever done, taking the results out of that.”

Of course, the experience was odd in 2021 as the world was still suffering through a pandemic.

“That was a muted experience because it was Japan and it was COVID and we couldn’t stay longer than our event lasted so you couldn’t mingle the way you wanted to. Still, it was unbelievable,” Casey said.

Casey opened the LIV Golf UK event with a 67 on Friday and has played well of late, but he didn’t qualify for this year’s Olympics. In fact, since moving to LIV Golf, Casey has slipped to 681st in the Official World Golf Ranking. He was in the top 30 the last time the Olympics were played.

This year, Casey’s 2021 teammate Tommy Fleetwood will be joined by Matt Fitzpatrick.

“Tommy was everything you could ever want for in terms of another teammate. I know we don’t play as a team, but as another sort of … as my fellow Brit there on-site, and he and Matt this year, I think they’re going to be absolutely fantastic for Team GB,” Casey said. “Part of me is actually very jealous because it really was something amazing, and I think Tommy and Matt have got a great chance of winning a medal, so I wish them all the best, and I’ll be watching.”

Jon Rahm admitted it was ‘weird’ playing with LIV teammate Tyrrell Hatton, who joked: ‘It obviously scared him’

Hatton, ever the card, responded with his typical deadpan delivery, chiding Rahm.

Jon Rahm’s LIV Golf timeline has been uneven, to say the least. The Spaniard arrived late to the party, getting a huge deal to join the fledgling circuit and although he’s had impressive finishes, he’s yet to break through with an individual victory.

And on Friday, in the opening round of LIV Golf UK at JCB Golf and Country Club in Rocester, England, he added a new variable — being paired with Legion XIII teammate Tyrrell Hatton. It marked the first time Rahm had played with a team member.

He admitted after Friday’s play that it was an awkward experience.

“It’s a weird scenario because, as good friends as you are, you want each other to do good, but you also want to beat each other. I could tell one of us was making a birdie, we first look at each other like, seriously? Don’t get too far away or don’t make many of those, but obviously we want to see each other make birdies,” Rahm said. “My funniest one was his reaction to my chip shot on 6. Being low left, I hit a good shot, and he just froze and looked at me like this. I didn’t know what to do with that reaction, so I was just a little confused down there on the left.”

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Hatton, ever the card, responded with his typical deadpan delivery, chiding Rahm.

“I enjoyed it, but it obviously scared him. It had a nice bit of spin to it, but I was expecting quite a bit — we’re big kids when we’re on the chipping green, so it was a perfect shot for getting some spin on it, and that’s generally, as sad as it is, quite exciting to see,” Hatton said.

The duo certainly didn’t allow the scenario to factor into their rounds. In fact, Rahm matched his best LIV round, posting a birdie on his opening hole (No. 2) and four of the last five en route to a bogey-free 63 that put him two strokes ahead of Andy Ogletree and Abraham Ancer for the individual lead. Hatton was close behind with a 66 that was only marred by an opening double.

With the two playing partners leading the way, Legion took a one-stroke lead in the team competition as well.

Incredibly, Rahm posted his low number without a single birdie on the par-5s.

“It’s funny. I don’t mean to be laughing. Recently, I feel like I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m not making bad swings. I don’t feel like I’m making terrible decisions, but it’s just I’ve got a little streak of bad luck on the par-5s. Didn’t birdie of them at The Open. Didn’t birdie any of them today. I don’t feel like I did anything terribly wrong,” he said. “But this is golf, it happens. There are times when you get going and you enjoy a streak of tournaments where it just seems like everything is going your way. So hopefully today is the start of something like that.”

Watch: Fan goes for a swim in water hazard at 2024 LIV Golf United Kingdom

He probably just wanted to cool off.

The LIV Golf League is in the United Kingdom at JCB Golf & Country Club this week for its 11th event of the season. Big names such as U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and Cameron Smith are hoping to earn another LIV trophy.

However, the star of the show during Friday’s first round was a fan that decided to take a swim in one of the course’s water hazards.

We’ve seen this before at the Ryder Cup and other professional events, but it usually happens after a team or player has won the event.

This swim was a little premature. Who knows, maybe he just wanted to take a quick dip and cool down.

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