Jon Rahm Age 2026: How Old Is Jon Rahm Now at 31?

Jon Rahm is 31 years old as of 7 November 2026. He was born on 10 November 1994 in Barrika, a small town in Biscay in Spain’s Basque Country, which means he turns 32 in three days, on 10 November 2026. If you are reading this after that date, he is 32. That one date explains almost every wrong number you will find about him online: pages written in 2024 still say 30, pages written in early 2025 say 30 or 31 depending on the month, and pages that never updated still call him 29.

The age matters more than it does for most golfers because Rahm has packed an unusual amount of career into a short span. He turned professional at 21, won his first PGA Tour event at 22, reached world No. 1 at 25, won his first major at 26, added the Masters at 28, signed the biggest contract in golf at 29, and walked away from it at 31 — in the same month his fourth child was born. His estimated net worth in 2026 sits at $250 million, inside a reported $200 million to $300 million range anchored by Celebrity Net Worth’s October 2026 update, EssentiallySports and Hello Magazine. This page answers the age question in full, then works through the career, the money, the family and the 2026 turning point that reshaped everything, with dates attached to every claim so you can check them.

By Celebamerica Editorial Staff — Last updated 7 November 2026

How Old Is Jon Rahm? The Short Answer

Jon Rahm was born on 10 November 1994. Count forward from that date and the answer is simple: he spent most of 2026 as a 31-year-old, and he turns 32 on 10 November 2026. The PGA Tour’s own player profile lists him at 31 with a birthdate of 10 November 1994 and a birthplace of Barrika, Spain, and Wikipedia, the Ryder Cup player pages and the major golf outlets all agree on the same date. There is no dispute about it, which is more than can be said for his net worth, where published estimates still range from a stale $100 million to a $200 million to $300 million band.

The confusion online comes from three places. First, age pages are rarely updated, so a page that said 29 in 2024 can still rank in 2026. Second, some outlets round the year and call him 31 all through 2025, when he was 30 until 10 November of that year. Third, the biggest golf stories of his life cluster around his birthday: his LIV exit became public in October 2026, his fourth child was born in mid-October 2026, and his first post-LIV tournament began on 5 November 2026, five days before he turned 32. Anyone searching his age in that window was catching him in the last days of being 31.

For the record, here is the arithmetic. Born 10 November 1994, he turned 30 on 10 November 2024, 31 on 10 November 2025, and 32 on 10 November 2026. He turned professional in June 2016 at 21. He won his first PGA Tour title in January 2017 at 22 years and two months. He first reached world No. 1 in July 2020 at 25. He won the US Open in June 2021 at 26, the Masters in April 2023 at 28, and signed with LIV Golf in December 2023 at 29. Every one of those milestones arrived earlier than it does for most elite golfers, and that early start is the thread that runs through this whole story.

Jon Rahm Quick Facts

A note on the win counts: some tournament wins count on more than one tour at once, so the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV figures do not simply add up to a single career total. Outlets that track his career put his professional win total at around 24 to 25 worldwide as of mid-2026, with the exact number depending on whether team wins and events counted on two tours are included. The 11 PGA Tour wins and the two majors are the hard numbers; the rest is a matter of counting rules, and this page says so rather than picking the biggest number and presenting it as settled.

Jon Rahm Age by the Numbers

The fastest way to understand Rahm’s career is to line his age up against what he had already done. Most golfers are still finding their feet on a developmental tour at 22. Rahm had already won on the PGA Tour. Most are still chasing a first major at 28. He had already won two and worn the green jacket. The table below puts a date and an age on each step.

Read that table as a golfer’s career compressed into a decade. Ten years passed between turning professional and walking away from LIV Golf, and in that decade Rahm won two majors, held the world No. 1 ranking for a combined 52 weeks, played in four Ryder Cups, married, had four children, and became one of the highest-paid athletes on the planet. Forbes ranked him second among the world’s highest-paid athletes in 2024 with $218 million in earnings, and seventh in 2026 with $107 million. The money story is told in detail in the sections below; the point here is the pace. He did all of it before his 32nd birthday.

Early Life in Barrika

Barrika is a small coastal town in Biscay, in Spain’s Basque Country, a place of cliffs and Atlantic weather rather than manicured fairways. Jon Rahm Rodríguez was born there on 10 November 1994, and the Basque identity has stayed with him through every stage of his career — in his name, in the names he and Kelley have given their children, and in the way he talks about home. He was born with a clubfoot, a condition that was treated in his early years, and he grew up playing sport with the kind of physical intensity that later became his trademark on a golf course: powerful, emotional, and hard to miss.

Golf was not the obvious path from a small Basque town. Football was the first love, and Rahm has never hidden it — he remains a devoted Athletic Bilbao supporter, and the club’s Basque-only player policy sits comfortably with his own sense of where he comes from. But golf took hold early, and by his teens he was good enough that the United States came calling. In 2012, at 17, he left Barrika for Arizona State University on a golf scholarship, a move that changed the shape of his life: it gave him elite coaching, year-round golf weather, a communications degree, and, in time, his wife.

The distance matters when you think about his age. He was a teenager living thousands of miles from home, playing college golf in the Arizona desert while his friends were finishing school in Spain. That early independence shows up in the way his career has unfolded — the big decisions, from turning pro to joining LIV Golf to leaving it, have all been taken quickly and on his own terms, without long public agonising. People who have followed him since the Arizona State years describe the same player at 31 that they saw at 19: fierce on the course, warm and funny off it, and stubborn about doing things his own way.

Arizona State and the Amateur Years

Rahm’s four years at Arizona State, from 2012 to 2016, were among the best college golf careers anyone has produced. He won 11 college tournaments, second in school history only to Phil Mickelson’s 16. He was named Pac-12 Player of the Year three times. He became the first golfer to win the Ben Hogan Award, given to the best collegiate golfer in the United States, twice — in 2015 and again in 2016. And he spent a then-record 60 weeks at No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, a stretch that told the professional game exactly what was coming.

He graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, which is worth noting because Rahm has always been one of the more articulate players in golf. His press conferences are long, thoughtful and often blunt, and his November 2026 appearance in Abu Dhabi — his first public comments after leaving LIV Golf — was a case in point: he explained his decision in plain language, said he had not yet spoken to the PGA Tour about a return, and laid out his plan to spend 2027 on the DP World Tour. That comfort with the media was built in Tempe, in classrooms as much as on the practice ground.

It was at Arizona State that he met Kelley Cahill, a track and field athlete for the Sun Devils. They began dating as students, stayed together through his rise, and married in December 2019. Scottsdale, Arizona — a short drive from the university — became their home base, and it remains their residence today, even as Rahm’s playing schedule has taken him to Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The college years also set the pattern for his game: long off the tee, sharp with the irons, and at his best when the pressure is highest. He played in the 2016 US Open as an amateur, finished as low amateur, and turned professional days later, at 21, with a game that already looked ready for the PGA Tour.

Turning Pro at 21 and the Fast Rise

Turning professional in June 2016, Rahm needed only seven months to win on the PGA Tour. The Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in January 2017 ended with a 60-foot eagle putt on the final hole, a shot that is still replayed whenever his career is retold. He was 22 years, two months and 19 days old, the youngest winner on tour that season, and he jumped from 137th to 46th in the world ranking in a single week. Two months later he reached a play-off at the WGC-Mexico Championship, losing to Dustin Johnson, and by the end of 2017 he had won on both the PGA Tour and the European Tour and finished the year inside the world’s top five.

The speed of that rise is easy to understate. Most players who turn pro at 21 spend two or three years learning how to make cuts and keep a tour card. Rahm won in his first season, contended in World Golf Championship events in his second, and made his Ryder Cup debut for Europe in Paris in September 2018 at 23, winning two of his three matches in a European victory. He was named the European Tour’s Golfer of the Year and Player of the Year in 2019, won the Race to Dubai that same year, and reached world No. 1 for the first time in July 2020, at 25, after winning the Memorial Tournament.

What made the rise stick was that it was built on a complete game rather than one hot skill. His driving distance put him among the longest players on tour, his iron play was among the most accurate, and his putting — once seen as the weak part of his game — improved year by year until it became a strength. The 2020–21 season brought the PGA Tour Player of the Year award and the money-list title, and by the time he arrived at Torrey Pines for the 2021 US Open he was 26, the father of a two-month-old son, and the favourite to win a first major on a course where he had already won as a professional. He did, birdieing the last two holes to win by one shot.

The Major Years: First Major at 26, Masters at 28

Rahm’s two major titles frame his late twenties. The first, the US Open at Torrey Pines in June 2021, came at 26, two months after his first son Kepa was born. He closed with birdies on the 17th and 18th holes to beat Louis Oosthuizen by a shot, and the win carried extra weight because Torrey Pines was where he had won his first PGA Tour event four years earlier. The second, the Masters at Augusta National in April 2023, came at 28. He started the final round two shots behind Brooks Koepka and won by four, becoming the fourth Spaniard to win the green jacket after Seve Ballesteros, José María Olazábal and Sergio García.

Between and around those wins, his major record was strong without quite matching the two victories. He finished second at The Open Championship in 2023, and he was runner-up at the 2026 PGA Championship, a result that showed his game was still sharp in the final year of his LIV contract. He has also finished inside the top five at the PGA Championship before, and his record in the majors is the record of a player who contends most years rather than one who flashes once and fades. The two wins, though, are what define him: a US Open won with a closing birdie-birdie finish, and a Masters won by coming from behind on Sunday.

The majors also explain his standing in Spain. Ballesteros remains the benchmark for Spanish golf, and Rahm has spoken openly about what Seve meant to him — he was born the year after Ballesteros won his last major, and he grew up hearing the stories. Winning the Masters in 2023, on what would have been Ballesteros’s 66th birthday, was the kind of coincidence that writes itself into a career story, and Rahm marked it by speaking about Seve in his winner’s press conference. At 28 he had two majors, a green jacket, and a place in the Spanish golf story that no active player could match.

His Ryder Cup record belongs in the same section, because for European players it carries almost the same weight as a major. Rahm played in four Ryder Cups — Paris 2018, Whistling Straits 2021, Rome 2023 and Bethpage Black 2025 — and Europe won three of the four, including the 2025 victory on American soil. He has been one of Europe’s most reliable performers in the event, a player captains build their pairings around, and his 2025 appearance came at 30, as one of the senior figures in a European team that had to win away from home. The 2027 Ryder Cup, at Adare Manor in Ireland, will come when he is 32 going on 33, and his place in that team will depend on the tour he plays and the points he can earn — a question that leads directly into the money years and the decision that defined them.

The Money Years and the LIV Decision

By late 2023, Rahm was 29, the reigning Masters champion, a former world No. 1, and one of the most valuable players in golf. On 7 December 2023 he announced he was joining LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed breakaway league, in a deal reported at around $300 million guaranteed — some reports put the figure higher, in the $300 million to $500 million range, and GOLF.com’s reporting on the exit put it in the area of $350 million. No official figure was ever confirmed, which is why honest reporting gives a range rather than a single number. He became captain of Legion XIII, a team he part-owned, and Callaway extended its relationship to sponsor the team, the first major equipment deal for a LIV franchise.

The money that followed was extraordinary even by the standards of modern sport. Forbes ranked him second among the world’s highest-paid athletes in 2024, with $218 million in earnings — $198 million on the course and $20 million from endorsements — behind only Cristiano Ronaldo. In 2026 Forbes ranked him seventh, with $107 million in the twelve months to June: $97 million on the course and $10 million in endorsements. EssentiallySports, working from the league’s prize records and the New York Times’ reporting, put his on-course LIV earnings above $100 million across three seasons, including back-to-back $18 million bonuses for winning the season-long individual title in 2024 and again in 2025, and a third individual title at LIV New York in August 2026 that paid a $6 million bonus. Add roughly $51 million in PGA Tour prize money from his seven seasons there, and his total career golf income runs past $430 million before endorsements are counted.

His endorsement portfolio has been steady through all of it, worth roughly $10 million a year by Forbes’ count. Callaway has been his equipment partner since 2021, when he switched to a full Callaway and Odyssey bag. Rolex has been a partner since 2019. Mercedes-Benz has been with him since 2018, Banco Santander covers the financial side, and VistaJet handles private aviation. The deals are the standard shape of a top golfer’s commercial life — equipment, watches, cars, banking, travel — but the scale changed after December 2023, when the LIV guarantee turned him from a rich golfer into one of the richest athletes alive. For the full money breakdown, with the estimate range and the sources behind it, see Jon Rahm’s net worth story on GuideNetWorth, which puts his 2026 fortune at an estimated $250 million inside a $200 million to $300 million range.

That same money is what made the exit so striking. The LIV contract still had years to run and, by the reporting in the bankruptcy court, more than $100 million still owed to him. Walking away from it at 31 meant giving up the largest remaining payday in golf in exchange for freedom — freedom to choose his tour, to play for Ryder Cup points without fines and disputes, and to be home in Scottsdale with a newborn. It was a decision that only makes sense if you remember how much he had already banked: with an estimated $250 million net worth, he could afford to leave $100 million on the table in a way that a younger player with less in the bank could not. Age and money met at exactly that point.

The 2026 Turning Point: Leaving LIV and the Fourth Child

The year 2026 changed Jon Rahm’s career twice in the space of a fortnight. The first change was professional, and it had been building since September, when LIV Golf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund withdrew its funding at the end of the season. The league had invested a reported $5 billion over four years, then cut off support, cancelled events, shortened its postseason and laid off most of its staff. On 7 October 2026, Rahm’s lawyer John Beck told a US bankruptcy court that Rahm had reviewed the proposed terms for LIV 2.0, the relaunched version of the league, and found them “unacceptable”, and that he would not be taking part in it. GOLF.com reported the same day that Rahm was out, and that his contract was the only LIV deal not yet rejected in the proceedings.

The numbers behind the exit were laid out in the court filings and in Celebrity Net Worth’s 9 October 2026 report. LIV owed Rahm $7.5 million in missed payments, making him the league’s largest unsecured creditor, and more than $100 million remained under his original deal. A separation agreement was filed on 14 October 2026, with a court hearing set for 5 November. Under the agreement as reported, Rahm gave up his claim to the money still owed in exchange for his name, image and likeness rights, including the “Rahmbo” and Legion XIII trademarks, and a 25 percent stake in his team was surrendered. It was, in plain terms, a walkaway: more than $100 million surrendered for the right to play where he chose.

On 3 November 2026, at the Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship, Rahm spoke publicly about the decision for the first time. He said he had liked the original LIV project but was not “thrilled” with the changes planned for LIV 2.0, which he described as moving away from team golf and toward a shorter season with fewer events and smaller purses. “It wasn’t really ever much of a consideration to be honest,” he said of signing up. He also spoke about his future: he had declined the PGA Tour’s Returning Member Program at the start of 2026 — the route Brooks Koepka took in January — and he had not yet had any discussion with the PGA Tour about a path back. “As of right now, I really don’t know what 2027 is going to look like for me,” he said. His plan, until he got clarity, was to spend the year on the DP World Tour, starting in Abu Dhabi and then Dubai. Sky Sports reported that he would face a one-year suspension from the PGA Tour before he could win back his card, and that he doubted he would be offered the same deal Koepka received — though he added that if he were offered exactly the same penalties, he would probably take it.

The second change in that fortnight was personal, and it explains why he missed the Spanish Open. On 6 October 2026 Rahm withdrew from his home national championship, the Open de España, writing that with his fourth child due any day he had made the difficult decision to stay home with his family. Ten days later, on 16 October, he announced on Instagram that he and Kelley had welcomed a daughter, Begoña Cahill Rahm. “Feeling incredibly grateful and blessed to have welcomed another little girl into our family this week,” he wrote. “Momma and baby are doing great, and we’re soaking up every moment as a family of six.” The name carries family history: Begoña is the name of the basilica in Bilbao where he and Kelley married in December 2019.

The Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship, which began on 5 November 2026 at Yas Links, was his first start as a former LIV player — his first start as a non-LIV golfer since November 2023 — and the first event of the DP World Tour’s season-ending play-offs. The DP World Tour Championship in Dubai follows on 12–15 November, two days after his 32nd birthday. He went into the play-offs ranked 46th in the Race to Dubai, needing a strong finish to reach the top 50 and qualify for Dubai, and he had already settled a long dispute with the tour over fines for playing LIV events without releases by agreeing to play at least five DP World Tour events in 2026. The DP World Tour had also announced it would not allow any player who signed with LIV 2.0 to play its events in 2027 — a line that Rahm, having walked away, sits on the right side of.

Personal Life: Kelley Cahill and Four Children

Rahm’s personal life has been unusually steady for a golfer of his profile, and it is part of why the age story reads the way it does. He met Kelley Cahill at Arizona State, where she competed in track and field for the Sun Devils. They married on 13 December 2019 at the Basilica of Begoña in Bilbao, Spain, and they live in Scottsdale, Arizona, where they settled after his college years. Their children have arrived in step with his career: Kepa in April 2021, days before Rahm played the Masters that year; Eneko in August 2022; Alaia in September 2024; and Begoña in October 2026, the week after he agreed to leave LIV Golf.

The timing of those births tells its own story about his thirties. His first child arrived the same month he won his first major. His fourth arrived the same month he gave up the biggest contract in golf. In a March 2026 interview with The Straits Times he said his priorities reached well beyond what he achieved on the course, and the autumn of 2026 showed what he meant: he missed his home Open for a birth, and he gave up nine figures of guaranteed money for the freedom to choose his schedule and be present at home. Golf writers who covered the LIV exit noted the same thing — that the decision looked different once you counted the four children and the house in Scottsdale, and remembered that the man making it was 31, not 21, with a fortune already banked.

Outside golf, Rahm is known as a devoted Athletic Bilbao supporter and a family man who keeps his private life mostly private. He does not court celebrity in the way some athletes do, and his social media is mostly golf and family. His height — 6 ft 2 in — and his powerful build have always made him stand out on a golf course, and his on-course temper in his younger years was widely written about; by his early thirties, the fire is still there but it is controlled, and the player who once broke clubs in frustration is now the one younger European players look to in a Ryder Cup team room. That change is one of the quieter parts of growing older in public, and it is visible in the way he handled the LIV exit: no public row, no bitter statement, just a lawyer in a courtroom and a calm press conference in Abu Dhabi.

His home in Scottsdale is the other fixed point. The family live in the Silverleaf community in the McDowell Mountains, in a house that property reporting has valued at between $10 million and $15 million in 2026, with six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a private putting green and a wine cellar. The exact value is not public and the reports disagree, so this page gives the range rather than a single figure. What is settled is that Scottsdale is home: it is where he went to university, where he met his wife, and where his children are growing up. When he says he plans to spend 2027 on the DP World Tour, the travel that implies is measured from that front door.

How Jon Rahm’s Age Compares With His Peers

Age means little on its own. It means something when you set it next to the players Rahm competes against, because golf is a sport where the peak years stretch from the late twenties into the late thirties, and where a 31-year-old can be both a veteran and a player with a decade left. The table below sets Rahm against the names who have defined his era, with ages as of November 2026.

Three things stand out from that table. First, Rahm sits in the middle of his generation: younger than McIlroy and Koepka, older than Scheffler and Morikawa, and the same age band as DeChambeau and Schauffele. Second, his two majors at 31 match DeChambeau and Schauffele and sit behind Scheffler’s four, which is the gap he will be chasing in his thirties. Third, and most telling, is the LIV split: of the eight names above, four — Rahm, Koepka, DeChambeau and, until recently, others — spent time with LIV Golf, and by November 2026 Rahm and Koepka had both left it by different routes, Koepka through the PGA Tour’s Returning Member Program in January and Rahm through a bankruptcy-court separation in October. The generation that was split by LIV is now, player by player, finding its way back.

Golf history says 32 is a good age to be. Tiger Woods won his 14th major at 32. Phil Mickelson won his first major at 33. Rory McIlroy, at 37, is still winning majors. The modern game, with its fitness work and its money, has stretched the peak years further than they used to run: players now contend into their forties, and the idea that a golfer is finished at 35 belongs to another era. Rahm’s game, built on power and iron play rather than on a single fragile skill, is the kind that ages well. The question for his thirties is not whether his body will hold up — it is which tour he plays, how many ranking points he can earn, and whether the majors keep coming. None of those questions has an answer yet, and that is what makes the next few years worth watching.

There is also a simpler comparison, and it is the one fans reach for first: how old was Rahm when he did the things other golfers are still waiting to do? He was 22 when he won on the PGA Tour; Scheffler was 25 when he won his first PGA Tour event. He was 25 when he first reached world No. 1; McIlroy was 23, Woods was 21, and most players never get there at all. He was 26 when he won a major; Mickelson was 33. Early success does not guarantee more of it, but it does mean Rahm has been playing the biggest events, under the heaviest pressure, for a decade already. At 31 he has more big-event experience than most 37-year-olds.

What Comes Next at 32

Rahm turns 32 on 10 November 2026, two days before the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, and the birthday lands in the middle of the most uncertain stretch of his career. What is settled: he is out of LIV Golf, he will play the DP World Tour in 2027, he has four children at home in Scottsdale, and he has an estimated $250 million net worth behind him. What is not settled: whether the PGA Tour will talk to him, what penalties a return would carry, how he will earn world ranking points in 2027, and whether he will be in the European Ryder Cup team at Adare Manor in September 2027.

The PGA Tour question is the one to watch. Koepka’s return through the Returning Member Program in January 2026 set a template, and Rahm said in Abu Dhabi that he would probably accept the same penalties if they were offered to him — but he also said he doubted they would be, and that he had not yet had a discussion with the tour. The tour has said it will not negotiate with a player still under a LIV contract, and Rahm’s contract is only now being unwound by a bankruptcy court, with a hearing on 5 November 2026. Until that process ends, the honest answer is the one Rahm gave himself: he does not know what 2027 looks like. His stated plan is a full season on the DP World Tour, which keeps him eligible for the Ryder Cup and keeps him playing the courses where he grew up as a European golfer.

The golf itself gives him reason for optimism. He was ranked 15th in the world in early October 2026, he was runner-up at the 2026 PGA Championship, and he won the LIV individual title for a third straight year in 2026. A player in that form, at 32, with two majors already won, is not a player in decline — he is a player changing address. The majors in 2027 will be his shop window: the Masters in April, where he has already won; the US Open in June; The Open in July; and the PGA Championship in May. A third major before he turns 33 would put him back in the conversation with Scheffler and McIlroy, and it would make the LIV years look like a detour rather than a wrong turn.

For readers who came here for one number, here it is again, with the date attached so it stays true: Jon Rahm is 31 years old on 7 November 2026, and he turns 32 on 10 November 2026. He was born on 10 November 1994 in Barrika, Spain. He is 6 ft 2 in tall, married to Kelley Cahill since December 2019, the father of four children, a two-time major winner, a former world No. 1, and — as of this month — a former LIV golfer starting again on the DP World Tour. That is a lot of life for 31 years, and the next chapter starts on his birthday.

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Sources and Reporting

How we estimated: Jon Rahm’s age is a matter of public record — born 10 November 1994 in Barrika, Spain — confirmed by the PGA Tour, Wikipedia and the Ryder Cup player pages. His net worth figure is an estimate, not a bank balance: Celebrity Net Worth’s October 2026 update, EssentiallySports’ early-2026 estimate and Hello Magazine’s July 2026 ranking all land on $250 million, inside a reported $200 million to $300 million range, while some older trackers still show a stale $100 million. The figure is built from reported money — a LIV Golf guarantee reported at around $300 million, more than $100 million in LIV on-course earnings, about $51 million in PGA Tour prize money and roughly $10 million a year in endorsements per Forbes — minus the taxes, fees and private spending that no outlet can see. Figures from different outlets disagree because the LIV contract terms were never officially confirmed; where they disagree, this article prints the range and names the sources behind it.

Named sources used for this article, linked to their homepages: PGA Tour, DP World Tour, Celebrity Net Worth, Forbes, GOLF.com, Sky Sports, EssentiallySports, Hello Magazine, Wikipedia. Career facts (birth date, college record, win counts, major titles, world ranking) were checked against the PGA Tour profile, Wikipedia and the Ryder Cup player pages. The LIV exit, separation agreement and court dates were checked against GOLF.com, Sky Sports, Reuters and Celebrity Net Worth’s October 2026 reporting. The birth of his fourth child was checked against EssentiallySports, Golfweek and the DP World Tour’s own report. Where a fact could not be confirmed from a named source, it was left out or flagged as reported rather than settled.