Jon Rahm

Rahm finished tied for 27th place in his first Masters and then finished 4th in the Wells Fargo Championship and joint runner-up in the Dean & DeLuca Invitational, results which lifted him into the top-10 of the World Rankings.

Jon Rahm Rodríguez (born 10 November 1994) is a Spanish professional golfer.

Rahm was born on 10 November 1994 in Barrica, a town in the province of Biscay, (Spain).

In the final, Rahm was 5-down after just 8 holes, but won holes 9, 10, 13, 15, and 16 to get to only 1-down going into the 18th.

Making his debut in a European Tour event, he finished tied for 10th in the Open de France and, the following week, he earned his first European Tour victory by winning the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open by six strokes.

Rahm finished the regular season in sixth place in the FedEx Cup rankings.

He had top-10 finishes in all four of the FedEx Cup Playoff events and finished fifth in the final standings.

As an amateur he represented Spain at various levels and was part of the Spanish teams that won the 2011 European Boys' Team Championship and the 2014 European Amateur Team Championship.

He jumped from 137th to 46th in the Official World Golf Ranking with the win, and also gained entry into the Masters Tournament, The Players Championship, the PGA Championship, and World Golf Championships events.

On 2 March, Rahm played in his first World Golf Championships event at the WGC-Mexico Championship where he shot rounds of 67-70-67-68 (−12) to finish T3, two strokes behind winner Dustin Johnson.

In his second WGC event, the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Rahm was runner-up to Dustin Johnson in the championship match.

Rahm debuted as the No. 21-seed in the field of 64 and went 3−0 in round-robin play, defeating Kevin Chappell 3 & 2, Shane Lowry 2 & 1, and countryman Sergio García 6 & 4.

He continued his domination in the round of 16 with a second consecutive 6 & 4 win over Charles Howell III, and then bested that mark when he eliminated Søren Kjeldsen 7 & 5 in the quarterfinals.

In the semifinals, he defeated Bill Haas 3 & 2, which set up his rematch with Johnson, who was attempting to win his third straight tournament.

At the 2014 Eisenhower Trophy he was the individual leader.

He attended Arizona State University on a golf scholarship, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications.

There he won 11 college golf tournaments, which is second in school history, behind only Phil Mickelson's 16 collegiate wins.

He is trilingual, speaking Spanish, Basque and English.

He was also the leading individual at the 2014 Eisenhower Trophy.

Both players made par on the final hole of the match and Rahm finished runner-up in his WGC-Match Play debut, which allowed him to ascend to a new career-high world ranking of 14th.

Rahm won the Ben Hogan Award in 2015 and 2016, the first player to win it twice.

He competed in the 2015 Phoenix Open as an amateur during his junior year, finishing tied for fifth place, three shots behind the winner.

On 1 April 2015, Rahm became the 28th player to be the No. 1-ranked golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.

His first stint was for 25 consecutive weeks, after which he surrendered it, regained it, and held it for an additional 35 weeks.

His total of 60 weeks spent atop the ranking is the all-time record.

While ranked No. 1 in the world, he advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2015 U.S. Amateur before losing to Derek Bard.

He won the Mark H. McCormack Medal in 2015 as the leading player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, which qualified him for the following year's U.S. Open and Open Championship.

He closed out his collegiate career by winning the Pac-12 Conference championship and an NCAA regional championship before finishing tied for third in the national championship.

He was the low amateur at the 2016 U.S. Open, finishing his final tournament as an amateur in a tie for 23rd place at 7-over-par.

After the U.S. Open, Rahm turned professional, which meant that he forfeited his exemption into the 2016 Open Championship.

The next week Rahm played in his first event as a pro at the Quicken Loans National.

He held or shared the lead for the first two rounds and finished tied for third place, four strokes behind the winner, Billy Hurley III.

The finish was enough for Rahm to regain entry into The Open, as the Quicken Loans National was part of the Open Qualifying Series.

Rahm finished tied runner-up in the RBC Canadian Open, securing Special Temporary Member status for the remainder of the season.

He gained enough points as a non-member to earn a PGA Tour card for 2017.

In late January 2017, Rahm won the Farmers Insurance Open with a 60-foot eagle putt on the final hole to notch his maiden PGA Tour title.

He was number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for a then record 60 weeks and later became world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, first achieving that rank after winning the Memorial Tournament in July 2020.

In June 2021, Rahm became the first Spanish golfer to win the U.S. Open.

In 2023, he won the Masters Tournament, his second major championship.

On 7 December 2023, Rahm announced that he was joining LIV Golf.