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Jon Rahm is one of the most marketable names LIV Golf has at its disposal as it seemingly limps toward extinction. You may subsequently think he’d be a top priority when it comes to televised coverage of its events, but we were forced to settle for a cellphone video of the albatross he made at a tournament in Virginia after the main broadcast missed the shot.
Bryson DeChambeau has not been shy about touting his perceived value as speculation swirls about the future of LIV Golf, but it’s hard to blame him for trying to leverage what he brings to the table when you consider he is easily the league’s most valuable asset.
He’s also one of the most talented golfers on the current roster, but if we’re going by LIV’s individual rankings and the Official World Golf Rankings, that title officially belongs to Jon Rahm (who is first to DeChambeau’s second in the former and 20th to his 28th in the latter).
Rahm headed into last week’s event in Virginia with two wins under his belt during the fifth (and possibly final) LIV Golf season, and he had not finished lower than fifth place in the first six events of the year. That was no longer the case after his most recent outing, but he did manage to walk away with an albatross that managed to elude the television cameras on the course.
Jon Rahm made an albatross that somehow wasn’t captured by the official LIV Golf broadcast
Rahm headed into Sunday’s round at Trump National sitting in seventh place at -12, but he needed a bit of a miracle to catch up to Lucas Herbert, who had a three-stroke lead at -21 and ultimately finished at -24 to get the wire-to-wire win by four shots.
Rahm started his final round on the second hole and was firmly out of the running by the time he arrived on the par-5 17th when you consider he was 13 shots behind Herbert. That gap was apparently the reason he was not a top priority for the television broadcast, as there was no rush to cover his second shot after he put a 321-yard drive into the rough off the tee.
However, the 31-year-old Spaniard managed to cut the deficit by sinking his 217-yard approach shot for what was the fifth albatross recorded at a LIV Golf tournament. Unfortunately, people who want to watch it were forced to settle for an underwhelming cellphone video of the rare feat, as it did not appear on TV or on the LIV Golf app after the fact.
Rahmbo even couldn’t believe that it went in!
Jon Rahm’s first professional Albatross comes on the 17th hole at #LIVGolfVirginia! pic.twitter.com/F5nyemvyPm
— Legion XIII (@LegionXIIIgc) May 10, 2026
Bummer.