With the individual champion's trophy under his arm, Jon Rahm will lead his Legion XIII from Friday to Sunday (18:15, Movistar Golf) for the last time this season, as the LIV closes until next year with its team final, which will be held at the Maridoe Golf Club in Dallas.
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A format without parallel on the classic circuits, which pits its 13 franchises against each other in a series of eliminatory rounds with a succulent prize pool, of course, at stake: 50 million dollars (44.7 million euros).
Jon Rahm, results
Rahm's squad, which has been a prodigy of consistency with four wins (more than any other) and two other podiums, is second in the general classification, only surpassed by Bryson DeChambeau's Crushers, with fewer wins (three) but more podiums (four).
Both teams and Cam Smith's Rippers, third, will save themselves the first round thanks to these results, from which they are exempt. The other 10, including the Fireballs of Sergio Garca, Eugenio Chacarra and David Puig, sixth, will play the quarter-finals on Friday.
Those in fourth to eighth place will choose their opponent from among the remaining five. The five teams that advance will face the three on the podium in the semi-finals on Saturday. These first two days will be in match play format, with two individual duels and a foursomes each match.
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On Sunday, the last four survivors will face each other in the usual format, stroke play, to decide the champion. The result of each structure will be based on the individual cards of each of its four members. The winner will take 14 (12.5 euros) of the 50 'kilos' at stake, of which 60% has to go to cover operating costs and the other 40%, 1.4 million (1.2), to the pockets of each player.
The second will pocket 8 and the third, 6. It could be the last time that Jon has under his command Kieran Vincent, who has finished the season in the Drop Zone and will have to play the circuit School to keep his membership, and Caleb Surratt, who is in the Open Zone, with freedom to continue in the Legion XIII or find a new destination.
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It remains to be seen if Bubba Watson will have to do so as well, in relegation positions but at the end of the day captain of a team, the Range Goats. There is a difficult situation for the circuit, which must decide whether to bet on the meritocracy established this year or to skip it at the first opportunity to keep one of its most popular names, and one of those who cost a million to attract, as the visible face of one of its franchises.
