Jon Rahm has been the best player in LIV Golf since the minute the two-time major champion defected from the PGA Tour after last season. So when is the Spaniard finally going to win?
That question is asked week after week, as Rahm turns in one sold performance after another without lifting an individual trophy over his head. He’s the only LIV player to finish top-10 in all six events so far this season, including his tie for third last week in Adelaide, Australia. He’s made more birdies than anyone on the circuit. And yet, he’s watched guys like Dean Burmester and Brendan Steele win the past two times out.
For a gritty competitor like Rahm, it has to be infuriating. He’s the odds favorite to win this weekend at LIV Golf Singapore, his final appearance before the PGA Championship in two weeks. Talor Gooch won last year’s LIV event at Sentosa Golf Club, where current LIV players Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter each won the defunct Singapore Open.
2024 LIV Golf Singapore Odds
| Golfer | Odds |
|---|---|
| Jon Rahm | +640 |
| Joaquin Niemann | +750 |
| Bryson DeChambeau | +1050 |
| Tyrrell Hatton | +1250 |
| Cameron Smith | +1400 |
| Louis Oosthuizen | +1500 |
| Talor Gooch | +1550 |
| Brooks Koepka | +1600 |
| Dean Burmester | +1800 |
| Abraham Ancer | +2400 |
| Sergio Garcia | +2500 |
| Dustin Johnson | +2700 |
| Patrick Reed | +2900 |
Odds as of May 2
LIV Golf Singapore Best Bets
Jon Rahm to Win (+650)
It’s time. Most weeks the courses on the LIV circuit don’t quite measure up to what players face on the PGA Tour, and Rahm is a handful of strokes from making this entire operation look foolish. He finished two strokes behind Steele last weekend in Adelaide. Three strokes behind Burmester in Miami. Three strokes behind Abraham Ancer in Hong Kong. Four strokes behind Dustin Johnson in Las Vegas. Two strokes behind Joaquin Niemann in Mayakoba. The dam is going to burst at some point—and brace yourself when it does.
Joaquin Niemann Top 5 To Finish (+140)
Niemann sits atop the LIV Golf standings by virtue of his individual victories at Mayakoba and Jeddah, but he’s also played very well for most of the season’s first half. He tied for third last weekend at Adelaide, two shots behind winner Steele, and tied for fourth in Hong Kong, finishing one stroke out of a three-man playoff won by Ancer. Niemann closed with back-to-back 66s at Singapore last season, and only Rahm has converted more birdies through the first six events of 2024.
Louis Oosthuizen Top 5 Finish (+285)
Possessor of perhaps the loveliest golf swing on the planet, Oosthuizen has been a factor the past two tournaments with a T7 at Miami and a solo second at Adelaide, finishing one shot short of pushing Steele into a playoff Down Under. Australia was his second runner-up performance of the season, joining a T2 at Jeddah. Oosthuizen is tied with Niemann for second on tour in birdies made, he’s second behind Cameron Smith in putting average, and he’s way up there in fairways it. That all spells consistency of the type the South African is famous for.
LIV Singapore Betting Tips
Honestly, it can be tough to know what all these LIV Golf stats and results really mean, given the quality (or lack thereof) of the courses where this circuit largely competes. Rahm, for instance, has been in the 60s in all but two of his 18 rounds as a LIV competitor through Australia. Then he goes to the Masters and shoots four consecutive rounds in the 70s. Even with just three rounds, 30 players finished 10 or more strokes under par at Adelaide—as opposed to 17 at the Heritage, the PGA Tour’s most recent individual event.
What does that tell you from a sports betting standpoint? That everything in LIV Golf is set up for guys to go low. Steele, who hadn’t sniffed the top-10 through the first five events, went 66-64-68 in Adelaide to win. For someone like Rahm, used to courses designed to identify and reward the best players in the game, this is a whole new world. Open with a 70 in LIV Golf, and you’re struggling the rest of the short weekend to hang on to a top-10.
But LIV is a top-heavy circuit frontloaded with players who, within this unique golf bubble, can post lots of red numbers. Ancer, for instance, heads to Singapore on the heels of a victory followed by two T9s, and has shot in the 60s in eight of nine rounds over that span. Garcia has shown signs of life with two runner-up finishes—but also twice finished worse than 38th. Adelaide snapped a string of five straight top-10s for Bryson DeChambeau, a run which included his T6 at Augusta.
And yet, it all comes back to Rahm. As his scores have indicated, he has the game to dominate this circuit—but he needs to start winning some tournaments first.
