Jon Rahm clinched the LIV Golf Mexico Metropolis title on Sunday amid rumours the tour is on the snapping point.
Reviews final week steered Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund (PIF) is ready to drag its monetary assist from the breakaway tour, putting its future in jeopardy.
LIV Golf chief govt Scott O’Neil has dismissed the concerns, stating in an e mail to employees, seen by the BBC, that the season would proceed “uninterrupted and at full throttle”, and the tour has since confirmed it’ll return to Mexico’s Chapultepec Golf Membership subsequent 12 months.
Spain’s Rahm, 31, romped to a six-stroke victory with a seven-under-par 64 within the ultimate spherical to clinch his second win of the season on the LIV tour, ending 21 below.
David Puig (-15) and Josele Ballester (-14) accomplished an all-Spanish podium.
Bryson DeChambeau, who received the earlier two occasions, withdrew earlier than the fourth spherical due to a wrist damage.
Rahm additionally received the workforce class along with his Legion XIII workforce for the primary time this 12 months, with England’s Tyrrell Hatton and Northern Eire’s Tom McKibbin each 11-under and Caleb Surratt two-under.
“Slightly bit disbelief,” mentioned Rahm, who completed tied thirty eighth ultimately week’s Masters.
“For those who had been to inform me final week on Thursday afternoon that I will be successful by a six-shot margin this week, I might not consider you due to how unhealthy I performed.”
LIV brought on a ‘civil struggle’ in skilled golf in 2022 once they began luring star names away from the PGA Tour with the supply of big pay will increase.
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour introduced in 2023 that they’d agreed to a merger with PIF, however there may be nonetheless no signal of the union coming to fruition.
The LIV Golf League is scheduled to return from 7-10 Could with LIV Golf Virginia in Washington DC.
