{"id":511373,"date":"2026-03-08T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511373\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:33:07","slug":"jon-rahm-wins-liv-hong-kong-first-individual-title-since-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511373\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm wins LIV Hong Kong, first individual title since 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG &#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> won the LIV Golf Hong Kong event Sunday for his first individual title since 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm shot 6 under in the final round and finished 23 under for the tournament, three shots ahead of runner-up <a data-player-guid=\"99fc172e-f48c-a55c-1a10-779eb966858e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/4837\/thomas-detry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Detry<\/a>. The Spaniard hadn&#8217;t won a title since LIV Golf Chicago in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been very ecstatic for wins in the past. This one just feels like a big weight off my shoulders,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back defending LIV Golf champion Rahm was tied with Detry and <a data-player-guid=\"a0810a4b-4ccb-844a-9ded-251234c1d657\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/6991\/harold-varner-iii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harold Varner III<\/a> at 17 under going into the final round at Hong Kong Golf Club at Fanling. <a data-player-guid=\"4434b114-435d-caea-5a1c-241d8db77f77\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/9031\/thomas-pieters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Pieters<\/a> finished third at 19 under.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/48132185\/rahm-helped-detry-get-hong-kong-now-share-liv-lead\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1624678_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I played really good all day,&#8221; Rahm said. &#8220;It was incredible. But I just tried to stay very patient and committed to each shot, knowing that I was doing everything right and things were going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"b864c33d-64bc-5e24-9899-d07ab1503585\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/3448\/dustin-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin Johnson<\/a>&#8216;s 4Aces GC took the team prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONG KONG &#8212; Jon Rahm won the LIV Golf Hong Kong event Sunday for his first individual title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-511373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}