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- Jon Rahm is one of the most dominant golfers on the planet.
- At just 28 years old, Rahm is already 12th on the PGA Tour’s all-time money list with more than $48 million in career earnings.
- He has earned even more money as a brand ambassador and through other endorsements both on and off the course.
Jon Rahm was born in the small town of Barrica, Basque Country, Spain on November 10, 1994.
As of 2018, Barrika had a population of only 1,514. It is located near the northern coast of Spain, about a 20-minute drive north of Bilbao.
Rahm represented Spain in several competitions growing up and helped his country win the 2011 European Boys’ Team Championship and the 2014 European Amateur Team Championship.
In 2012, Rahm entered Arizona State University on a golf scholarship.
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His coach at Arizona State was Tim Mickelson, brother of golf legend Phil Mickelson, who had also attended the school.
Tim was the first person to pick Rahm up from the airport when he landed to start his studies at Arizona State.
According to the Golf Channel storytheir first interaction was “painfully awkward” as Rahm’s English was still quite broken.
“I went to my assistant [Michael Beard] and said, “I don’t think this kid’s going to make it,” Mickelson said later. “I thought he might be a kid who fails after a semester or a year.”
Rahm credits his love of rap music, especially Kendrick Lamar and Eminem, with helping him improve his English.
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Rahm specifically mentioned Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Swimming Pools.”
“Memorizing rap songs in English helped me a lot with pronunciation and understanding what was going on and staying in conversation with people,” Rahm said after his first PGA Tour victory. “You can look [those songs] up. They are good.”
In 2020, Rahm showcased his rapping skills during a guest appearance on the SubPar podcast through Lamar’s “King Kunta”.
At ASU, Rahm was dominant, becoming the first player to win the Ben Hogan Award, given to the nation’s top collegiate golfer, twice.
He played in the PGA Tour’s Phoenix Open as an amateur during his junior year, finishing in a tie for fifth place.
Rahm finished the 2015 Waste Management Phoenix Open at 12-under, beating Tour pros such as Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Tony Finau.
“It means a lot,” Rahm said after the weekend. “It means I’ve proven to myself that I can be here. I can be here and compete with the best and try to be the best.”
The tournament was won by Brooks Koepka, who finished under 15 years old. Koepka and Rahm later met at Augusta National in a duel 2023 champions.
His last tournament as an amateur was the 2016 US Open, where he won the low amateur and finished tied for 23rd.
“It’s a special moment to be here and to be on this course and today is the last day of my amateur career.” Rahm said after finishing his round that sunday
A week later, Rahm made his Tour debut as a pro at the Quicken Loans National, grabbing an early lead before finishing in a tie for 3rd.
Rahm shot a 64 in the opening round of the tournament and finished at the top of the leaderboard on Thursday.
“I was just hot off the tee,” Rahm said after the round. “I was really comfortable on the tee. I was hitting the fairways and I was hitting it long, so it allowed me to be more aggressive.”
Rahm’s T-3 finish on Sunday earned him $400,200 in his first event as a professional. He did it all with his former ASU teammate in his carry-on.
Less than a year later, Rahm secured his first PGA Tour win at the Farmers Insurance Open.
From there, Rahm continued to rise through the ranks on the PGA Tour, achieving two top-5 finishes at a Major in 2018.
Rahm finished fourth alone at the Masters in 2018. He has now played Augusta National seven times, finishing in the top 10 in five of those rounds and never finishing below T-27.
In July 2020, Rahm won the Memorial Tournament and became the world’s number one golfer for the first time.
After five PGA Tour wins, Rahm broke through to claim his first major win at the 2021 US Open.
Rahm entered Sunday’s final round at the 2021 US Open with a three-stroke lead. He still trailed by one stroke with two holes remaining, but rode a birdie-birdie finish to the first major win of his career.
Rahm took home $2.25 million from the win.
With the victory, he increased his place at the top of the world ranking list. This time he held it for almost a year.
In April 2023, Rahm secured another major win at the Masters.
Rahm recovered from a double bogey on the opening hole of the tournament to cruise past Brooks Koepka’s marathon day on Sunday to win the green jacket.
Even though he’s won the green jacket, he still doesn’t technically own it.
Rahm had predicted his Masters victory 10 years earlier with the help of a fortune cookie.
Read more: Jon Rahm predicted his Masters win 10 years ago with a Panda Express fortune cookie
In all, Rahm has earned $48,312,583 on the PGA Tour through the 2023 Masters. He is 12th on the all-time money list.
Off the course, Rahm makes a lot more money as a brand ambassador.
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Since 2019, Rahmi has been sponsored by the software and consulting company Blue Yonder.
He has also signed with Vista Jet, which has helped him bounce around the country playing in tournaments.
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Rahm has also promoted Maestro Dobel Tequila on his Instagram page.
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Rahm met his future wife, Kelley Cahill, at Arizona State, where he threw the javelin as a member of the track and field team.
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Rahm proposed to Cahill at Torrey Pines in 2018, where he would win the US Open three years later.
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They got married in 2019.
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In 2021, the couple had their first child, Kepa.
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Rahmit added a new member to the family in 2022, when Eneko was born.
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Two children are already regulars at his tournaments.
Rahm has no shortage of famous friends, including NFL stars JJ Watt and Zach Ertz.
The trio is in a group chat, called Birdies and Babies, and Rahm says Ertz shocked him before his Masters win. Watt shared the texts.
Rahm is also friendly with Olympic champion Michael Phelps.
Rahm has said Phelps is a friend he turns to for advice.
“You know, he’s a great guy,” Rahm said of Phelps, according to Golf Digest. “He’s been through a lot, and as an athlete he’s someone to look up to. When you’re the greatest Olympian of all time, you’ve got a couple of tricks up your sleeve, a couple of good bits of wisdom at that. .”
When Rahm’s first child was born just days before the championships, Rahm asked Phelps for advice on how to handle the situation.
Per Golf Digest:
“You know, he’s been very open to my questions. Anytime I’ve had a question about anything, he’s answered,” Rahm said. “What I can talk about or am willing to talk about was mainly when [son] Kepa was born he texted me right away because he was in Colorado when his first child was born and he flew back for the birth and then two days later he had to go back to continue training for the Olympics.
“He knows how hard it is to be there and then right after that, away, I have to go practice and I don’t see him. He helped me through that. It’s not an easy feeling. It wasn’t the easiest thing to do, even if it was the Masters . I really didn’t want to leave the room, but he helped me do it.”
Now the Masters champion, Rahm needs wins at the PGA Championship and the Open Championship to win the career grand slam.
If he does, he would be only the sixth man in history to accomplish the feat.
Only five men, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Gene Sarazen, have won professional golf’s modern Grand Slam.
With Rahm now having two majors at the young age of 28, he could aim for a sixth.
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