Rahm entered Sunday’s round tied for ninth on the leaderboard. He needed a strong regular-season finale to best Niemann, who carried a slim 12.27 points advantage into the event in hopes of becoming the league’s fourth different individual points winner.

Jon Rahm successfully defended his LIV Golf season points title Sunday without winning an event all year, closing with an 11-under 60 before losing a playoff to Sebastian Munoz on the first extra hole in the Indianapolis event.

Trailing Munoz (Torque GC) by three strokes to start, 4Aces GC captain Dustin Johnson evened things up with a 7-under par 64 to pull into a two-way tie atop the leaderboard at 16 under 126 through 36 holes.