Jon Rahm wins LIV Golf UK for his 1st victory on the Saudi-funded tour

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First-place champion, captain Jon Rahm, of Legion XIII, kisses the trophy on the 18th green after the final round of LIV Golf United Kingdom by JCB at JCB Golf & Country Club, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Rocester, England. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

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First-place team champions, Legion III captain Jon Rahm, second from right, Kieran Vincent, second fromleft, Tyrrell Hatton, left, and Caleb Surratt, right, celebrate onstage during the trophy ceremony after the final round of LIV Golf United Kingdom by JCB at JCB Golf & Country Club, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Rocester, England. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

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First-place team champions, Legion III captain Jon Rahm, second fromright, Kieran Vincent, second from left, Tyrrell Hatton, left, and Caleb Surratt, right, celebrate onstage during the trophy ceremony after the final round of LIV Golf United Kingdom by JCB at JCB Golf & Country Club, Sunday, July 28, 2024 in Rocester, England. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

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Captain Jon Rahm, of Legion XIII, waves to the crowd after putting out on the 18th green during the final round of LIV Golf United Kingdom by JCB at JCB Golf & Country Club, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Rocester, England. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

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Captain Jon Rahm, of Legion XIII, putts on the 17th green during the final round of LIV Golf United Kingdom by JCB at JCB Golf & Country Club, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Rocester, England. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

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Jon Rahm poses with his trophy after winning the individual competition during the third day of the LIV Golf League at the JCB Golf and Country Club, Rocester, England, Sunday July 28, 2024.(Bradley Collyer/PA via AP)

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Captain Jon Rahm , left, of Legion XIII, and his caddie, Adam Hayes, play on the 16th hole during the final round of LIV Golf United Kingdom by JCB at JCB Golf & Country Club, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Rocester, England. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

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Captain Jon Rahm, of Legion XIII, hits from the 12th tee during the final round of LIV Golf United Kingdom by JCB at JCB Golf & Country Club, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Rocester, England. (Charles Laberge/LIV Golf via AP)

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Captain Jon Rahm, of Legion XIII, reads his putt on the 13th hole during the final round of LIV Golf United Kingdom by JCB at JCB Golf & Country Club, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Rocester, England. (Charles Laberge/LIV Golf via AP)

ROCESTER, England (AP) — Jon Rahm won LIV Golf UK on Sunday for his first victory on the Saudi-funded tour when Legion XIII teammate Tyrrell Hatton three-putted his final hole for a bogey.

Rahm closed with a 4-under 68 to finish at 13 under at JCB Golf & Country Club, a stroke ahead of Hatton (69), season points leader Joaquin-Niemann (65) and defending champion Cameron-Smith (69).

“Finally got one done,” said Rahm, who has fought a foot problem this season. “You never want to get those feelings to go on for too long, and to get over the hump feels great incredible. It’s been a fantastic week and a fantastic year, and just relieved that it happened. … Feels like I got a lot of weight off my shoulders on that one.”

On the par-4 18th, Hatton hit a 75-foot putt to 5 feet and missed the par try to hand Rahm his first victory since the 2023 Masters. Rahm and Hatton led Legion XIII to the team title.

“Obviously, you always want to win,” Rahm said. “Selfishly, you always want to get that done. But you don’t want to see a teammate and a good friend missing a putt for that to happen for me. It’s a bit of an unusual situation that I don’t think any of us are used to.”

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Rahm is one seven LIV players in the Olympics next week at Le Golf National outside Paris. The 29-year-old Spanish star joined LIV in December.

Hatton, the Nashville winner in June, played in the group behind Rahm.

“Still pretty raw for me as an individual,” Hatton said. “It’s kind of hard to put that to one the side. Golf is generally an individual sport.”

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Olympic Hightlights

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FILE - South Africa’s Jacques Freitag competes in the men’s high jump of the 2004 Olympic Games, in the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Friday Aug. 20, 2004. Local media is reporting that South African police have discovered the body of former high jump world champion Jacques Freitag after he went missing last month. The reports said the 42-year-old, who won the 2003 world title in Paris and competed at the 2004 Olympics, had been shot. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

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