Double major winning Jon Rahm will look to achieve a feat that no other Spanish-born golfer has managed and that is to end a PGA Tour season as the FedEx Cup champion.

Rahm, 28, tees-up on the famed East Lake course having lost his long-running PGA Tour No. 1 position following an indifferent showing at last week’s BMW Championship and will tee-up as No. 4 on the standings.

Rahm, along with Tony Finau and Xander Scheffler, have qualified for the Tour Championship in each of the last seven
seasons, the longest active streak on Tour. Rahm enters the week after holding the FedExCup lead for 30
consecutive weeks.

Spain’s Jon Rahm ahead of 2023 Tour Championship

And as the lone Spaniard in the season-closing event, Rahm looks to become not only the first Spanish-born PGA Tour No. 1 but become only the fourth European to be handed the FedEx Cup since the inaugural hosting of the event in 2007.

Rahm was asked ahead of the 30-player field what it would mean to end his season as the FedEx Cup champion.

“Well, I wouldn’t want to give you a ranking while I’m here at the FedExCup finale of what’s more important than others, but obviously, majors are the most important thing in golf, right? That’s how it’s been and that’s kind of how it is,” said Rahm.

“But there’s a difference to being the FedExCup champion, just because you enter the playoffs in certain position, you earned your spot to this week, and then to just be able to finish it off, right? It feels like it’s more than just one week. It’s a culmination of a whole year in these last three weeks in a row, right? So it has a little bit of a different special feel to it.

“With that said, you might be able to get a more elaborate answer from somebody who has actually won either one, right, like, a major and the FedExCup or PLAYERS or something like that, to be able to assess. Because a lot of times I don’t realize the magnitude of certain things in my mind until it’s happened.

“I would have told you that the U.S. Open would have been my most meaningful win until the Masters happened. Even though it was my first major, that Masters win felt very, very different for some reason. I can’t explain why, but it was very, very special above what the U.S. Open was.”