Jon Rahm is coming to Memphis. Rahm committed Monday to play in the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. The PGA Tour event begins July 30th at TPC Southwind without spectators. Rahm is fresh off a win at The Memorial that vaulted him to the top of the World Golf Rankings.
Jon Rahm’s two-stroke penalty on the 16th hole Sunday at the Memorial may not have cost him the tournament, but it was costly for a DraftKings bettor. According to the daily sports gambling company DraftKings, a user known as Draft-Master-Flex was leading a Sunday final round betting tournament worth 200-thousand-dollars when the penalty knocked his wager from the top spot on the leaderboard.
Rahm was in the rough on 16 when he hit an incredible chip shot for a birdie, but officials ruled the ball moved on set-up and accessed the penalty. DraftKings says the penalty in their scoring system then moved Draft-Master-Flex out of the lead and left him with only 50-thousand-dollars in winnings on his bet.