‘Unbelievable’: Las Sasso delighted with LIV Golf Indianapolis win as Rahm takes 2026 overall individual title

WESTFIELD: Michael La Sasso wrote one of the most remarkable stories in LIV Golf history on Sunday, closing with a 5-under 65 to win LIV Golf Indianapolis 2026 at 18-under.

The championship is his first professional victory, and at just 22 years old, the HyFlyers GC rookie became the youngest winner in League history.

Legion XIII, meanwhile, ran away with the Team Championship for the second consecutive season, capping a dominant campaign in which captain Jon Rahm took both the individual season-long title and the team crown at The Club at Chatham Hills.

La Sasso entered the week with a T12 as his only top-30 LIV Golf finish but ended it as a champion, closing out four rounds of 71-60-66-65 to hold off a furious charge from Rahm, who carded a 7-under 63, the low round of the day, to finish solo second at 17-under. Rahm, who had already secured his third consecutive individual championship coming into Indianapolis, pushed all the way to the final hole before La Sasso’s steady closing 65 proved just enough with a birdie on the par-5 18th. 

La Sasso barely had words for the moment after it was over. “I don’t even know what to say,” he said. “I’m shaking if I’m being honest. It was unbelievable. I thought I played great all day and just kind of waited for my moment, and it finally came on the last. Pretty funny.”

The 22-year-old had told his team’s social media staffer the night before that this would be the week he broke through.

“I told our social media guy last night, I said, I’ll be honest, this is going to be the one I win,” La Sasso said. “I spoke it into existence well before this week. The fact that it’s actually come true, it’s unbelievable, but yeah, I’m at a loss for words.”

He added he was glad his