The 30-year-old played plenty of good golf and made plenty of money during 2025, but there were no great weeks. For the first time since turning pro in 2016, Rahm failed to hoist an individual trophy.
Just listen to Tyrrell Hatton, who told the story of the ‘messy night’ he spent partying with Jon Rahm after learning he had automatically qualified for the 2025 European Ryder Cup team.
Bryson DeChambeau went out of his way to avoid playing Brooks Koepka Saturday in the semifinals of the LIV Golf Team Championship, something Koepka was not pleased with, saying, “I don’t know what he was afraid of.”
All the proof one needs for what contending at Valderrama means to Rahm can be found in his answer when asked where the adrenaline levels are compared with big moments in his career.
In writing, it looks like Scottie Scheffler dunking on Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm, which he’d have every right to coming off his PGA Championship win. But with video context, it was just Scottie being Scottie.
When the pressure crystallised by Sunday afternoon at the PGA Championship, only Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau remained—all former major winners, all luminaries of the sport.
Jon Rahm thoughtfully and earnestly analysed a stunning late collapse that took him from possibly completing the third leg of a career Grand Slam to basically being just another guy in the pack who finished well behind PGA champion Scottie Scheffler.