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It’s been fairly the 12 months for Jon Rahm – and he’s obtained the prize cash to show it.
A runner-up end on the Mexico Open on Sunday took the Spaniard’s PGA Tour season earnings to $14,462,840, setting a brand new Tour report for cash earned in a single season.
Denied a protection of his title by Tony Finau, Masters champion Rahm took house $839,300 at Vidanta Vallarta to eclipse the earlier report set by Scottie Scheffler final season. The American additionally received at Augusta en path to banking $14,046,910 throughout 25 occasions final 12 months.
Rahm has blown previous Scheffler’s sum in simply 12 outings, boosted by imperious kind and elevated prize cash on the PGA Tour’s choose “designated occasions.” Three of the world No. 1’s 4 wins have come at designated occasions: his victories on the Sentry Event of Champions, The Genesis Invitational and The Masters totaling $9 million in winner’s earnings.
And there may be ample time for Rahm to stretch the report even additional.
There are 9 designated occasions – together with three majors – left to play earlier than the season wraps up with the Tour Championship in Atlanta in late August.
Nonetheless, Rahm and Scheffler will miss their first elevated occasion of the season on Thursday, with each absent from the sphere for the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hole in North Carolina.
Golfers are permitted to skip one designated occasion per season however will see cash deducted from their Participant Affect Efficiency (PIP) earnings for subsequent absences. Rory McIlroy is about to lose $3 million (25%) of his PIP pay after withdrawing from the RBC Heritage final month, having already missed the Sentry Event of Champions in January, in accordance with Reuters.
With $49,486,883 in complete earnings since becoming a member of the PGA Tour in 2016, Rahm seems set to cross the $50 million mark imminently upon his return.
Rahm completed three photographs adrift of a $1.386 million payout and a fifth victory of the season as Finau took his revenge on the Mexico Open.
The American had completed joint-second, one shot shy, of Rahm eventually 12 months’s occasion, however improved his complete by eight photographs to finish on 24-under and clinch his sixth PGA Tour title.
Finau started the ultimate spherical with a two-shot benefit over Rahm and shot 5 birdies to card a five-under 66.
A bogey on the penultimate gap derailed any hope of the Spaniard retaining his title, a prospect that had been on the playing cards after he shot a course report 10-under 61 on Saturday, equaling his lowest ever PGA Tour spherical.
Given his kind, Rahm seems well-placed so as to add to his two majors and 11 PGA Tour titles this 12 months, however the 28-year-old is maintaining his toes firmly on the bottom. Narrowly lacking out on victory reminded Rahm of a quote from {golfing} nice Arnold Palmer: “The trail to success is at all times below development.”
“It’s an important reminder that what you’ve performed means completely nothing, you continue to must go on the market and do it,” Rahm advised reporters.
“Clearly, I wished to win, however it’s a reminder that everyone out right here is a superb participant and Tony got here out with a two-shot lead and performed incredible golf. I really feel like, had I been in a position to stress him a little bit extra, we might have seen extra birdies from Tony.
“It’s like I mentioned, an important reminder of what I nonetheless have to do to have the ability to hold profitable tournaments, and if you happen to ask me, that’s virtually a blessing in life, to know that the work isn’t actually performed.
“It’s by no means performed, the search is ever ongoing.”
