{"id":540724,"date":"2026-04-20T08:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540724\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:32:07","slug":"jon-rahm-wins-liv-mexico-city-event-amid-rumours-of-tour-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540724\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm wins LIV Mexico City event amid rumours of tour collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jon Rahm clinched the LIV Golf Mexico City title on Sunday amid rumours the tour is on the verge of collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reports last week suggested Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is set to pull its financial support from the breakaway tour, placing its future in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">LIV Golf chief executive Scott O&#8217;Neil has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cx2dd2jr0mgo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed the concerns<\/a>, stating in an email to staff, seen by the BBC, that the season would continue &#8220;uninterrupted and at full throttle&#8221;, and the tour has since confirmed it will return to Mexico&#8217;s Chapultepec Golf Club next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain&#8217;s Rahm, 31, romped to a six-stroke victory with a seven-under-par 64 in the final round to clinch his second win of the season on the LIV tour, finishing 21 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Puig (-15) and Josele Ballester (-14) completed an all-Spanish podium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bryson DeChambeau, who won the previous two events, withdrew before the fourth round because of a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rahm also won the team category with his Legion XIII team for the first time this year, with England&#8217;s Tyrrell Hatton and Northern Ireland&#8217;s Tom McKibbin both 11-under and Caleb Surratt two-under. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A little bit disbelief,&#8221; said Rahm, who finished tied 38th at last week&#8217;s Masters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you were to tell me last week on Thursday afternoon that I&#8217;ll be winning by a six-shot margin this week, I would not believe you because of how bad I played.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">LIV caused a &#8216;civil war&#8217; in professional golf in 2022 when they started luring star names away from the PGA Tour with the offer of huge pay increases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The PGA Tour and DP World Tour announced in 2023 that they had agreed to a merger with PIF, but there is still no sign of the union coming to fruition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The LIV Golf League is scheduled to return from 7-10 May with LIV Golf Virginia in Washington DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm clinched the LIV Golf Mexico City title on Sunday amid rumours the tour is on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}