Jon Rahm Is Worth A Lot More Than You Think

While Jon Rahm, 26, sits in the three spot on the Official World Golf Ranking 2021, reported ESPN, he still makes bank. The Spanish pro golfer entered the upper echelons of the golfing world by winning the Farmers Insurance Open in January 2017, a year after he turned pro.

He attended Arizona State University, where he won 11 college tournaments, coming close to Phil Mickelson's number-one ASU record of 16. But Rahm would also reach the top, and was first in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for 60 consecutive weeks, said Celebrity Net Worth, and won the Ben Hogan Award twice (2015 and 2016) and the Mark H. McCormack Medal (2015). Other major wins include the CareerBuilder Challenge (2018, per PGA Tour), the Spanish Open (2018 and 2019, per The Golf Channel), the Memorial Tournament (2020; again, PGA Tour) and the BMW Championship (2020).

Since going pro, Rahm earned more than $1 million each year on the PGA Tour, reported the South Hampton Golf Club, who added that the golfer comes in fifth compared to players like Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas and Brooks Koepka. 

As Rahm participates in the 2021 Masters Tournament, starting on April 8 (though the 11^th), he has a net worth of about $13 million. said Livesportworld.com.

The golfer could have easily missed the iconic contest to watch his first child come into the world. "I've talked about it before and we've talked about it with her (his wife, Kelley)," he said to Golf Week in February (posted by The Augusta Chronicle). "No matter where I am and what I'm doing, if the phone rings I'm flying back, and I'm going back home to be there for the birth of my son. Before anybody asks, yes, if I'm at Augusta and I'm playing well and she starts getting, you know, starts, I'm flying back. I would never miss the birth of my first-born in a million years."

Luckily for golf fans, his son, Kepa Cahill Rahm, decided to make his appearance on April 3, as Rahn announced on his Instagram. 

So far the best player Spain has produced is Seve Ballesteros, who won 87 titles, including the Open (1979, 1984 and 1988) and the Masters (1980, 1983), according to his 2011 obituary in The Guardian. Will Rahm surpass that legacy one day? Rahm commented about comparisons to his idol when talking to the The Guardian in 2019: "I've said it many times, as a Spanish player, as a Spaniard, any time you have the chance to put your name on a list where there's only one name and that name is Seve, it's pretty impactful."