{"id":97013,"date":"2025-08-25T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/97013\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:37:11","slug":"rahm-legion-xiii-outlast-dechambeau-crushers-in-liv-team-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/97013\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahm, Legion XIII outlast DeChambeau, Crushers in LIV team final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 24, 2025, 07:48 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>PLYMOUTH, Mich. &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"f7192f24-1537-e91b-de6f-3548d5989626\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/9780\/jon-rahm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Rahm<\/a> and Legion XIII outlasted <a data-player-guid=\"b9dfbb7c-0b61-caad-280f-512c677e8e8f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/10046\/bryson-dechambeau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> and the Crushers in a playoff Sunday in the LIV Golf League team final.<\/p>\n<p>Legion XIII rallied to match the Crushers at 20 under at The Cardinal at Saint John&#8217;s, with the Stinger squad from South Africa well back at 12 under in the three-team final.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm and <a data-player-guid=\"ab95205e-c964-97c7-c309-9841844bc546\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/5553\/tyrrell-hatton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrrell Hatton<\/a> each birdied the final two holes of regulation, then ended the playoff with a pair of birdies on the second extra hole against DeChambeau and <a data-player-guid=\"849d97b1-9339-888a-02a9-868769388a50\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/72\/paul-casey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Casey<\/a>. Rahm made a 6-footer and Hatton had a short putt for the deciding birdies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tyrrell and I got it going a little late, but better late than never,&#8221; Rahm said. &#8220;When it came to the playoff, I felt fairly confident we&#8217;re both really good wedge players, and if we just put it in the fairway, I was fairly confident we were going to give ourselves a lot of chances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Tennessee player <a data-player-guid=\"c2f1a15e-31c1-3e8f-b3c5-8fb01e423c04\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/511003\/caleb-surratt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Surratt<\/a> led Legion XIII with a 64.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a wild ride,&#8221; Surratt said. &#8220;I&#8217;m thankful to Jon trusting me enough to have me on his team last year, and I&#8217;m very proud of the player I&#8217;ve started to become.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rahm and <a data-player-guid=\"26cac8d3-bbd7-699b-6bc9-80f2143e2aa3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/434844\/tom-mckibbin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom McKibbin<\/a> each shot 65, and Hatton had a 66.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neither Tyrrell or I were having a great day today, and even during the whole week, I don&#8217;t think we played our best,&#8221; Rahm said. &#8220;But the young guys kind of were a beacon of strength playing good and out there today as well. They carried us all the way to the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau shot 62.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He played incredible golf,&#8221; Rahm said about DeChambeau. &#8220;He played unbelievable. His driver was on an absolute roll, and he had the putter going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Casey and <a data-player-guid=\"73788dc7-81e9-083e-7682-cac54d837b6b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/4989\/anirban-lahiri\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anirban Lahiri<\/a> had 65s, and <a data-player-guid=\"8083dcb8-bbc3-a90b-2ca7-494d94214dbc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/208\/charles-howell-iii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Howell III<\/a> closed with a 68. Howell birdied five of the first seven, then dropped three strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm helped Legion III take the team event a week after successfully defending his LIV season points title in Indiana, a tournament where he closed with a 60 before losing a playoff to <a data-player-guid=\"d921abae-9250-f837-6ca8-d7b516e04709\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/10404\/sebastian-munoz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebasti\u00e1n Mu\u00f1oz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 24, 2025, 07:48 PM ET PLYMOUTH, Mich. &#8212; Jon Rahm and Legion XIII outlasted Bryson DeChambeau and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-97013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}