Jon Rahm provided a clearer look at this future Tuesday as he ended his lengthy feud with the DP World Tour, while discussing the uncertainty around LIV Golf.
“Right now, I have several years in my contract left,” Rahm told reporters at LIV Golf Virginia ahead of this week’s event.
“I’m pretty sure they did a pretty good job when they drafted that, so I don’t see many ways out. Right now, I’m not really thinking about it because we still have a season to play and majors to compete for. It’s not something I want to think about just yet.”
It is the most substantial comments Rahm had made about the league or his place in it since Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment (PIF) announced they would be pulling their financial backing after this season.
The reports of potential financial doom for the league started before the Mexico event last month and were confirmed last week.
“Honestly, I think the initial news and the rumors over there in Mexico, since we’re in a tournament week, I almost just tried to act as if it was just rumors,” he said. “Because we’re competing, I didn’t want to waste any energy on an already demanding week thinking about it.
“For me, the reality kind of came afterwards. I would say, like everybody, [I was] surprised. Obviously, [it was] unexpected. We did hear the news that there would be funding for many years. But then as the future of the league goes, I think that’s obviously a question for the businesspeople.”
The other issue Rahm was dealing was his ongoing feud with the DP World Tour over a discrepancy in the number of tournaments the Spaniard would commit to play on each season.
The former Masters champ had accused the European tour of extortion because players in LIV had to play in six events — two of which the tour gets to choose itself — in order to be eligible for the Ryder Cup. Non-LIV players only had to play in four events.
“I offered some; they extended an olive branch. Obviously we’ve reached an agreement. That will not be a stress anymore,” Rahm said.
The DP World Tour confirmed that Rahm would be returning.
“This involves payment of all outstanding fines accrued from 2024 to date, along with participation in agreed DP World Tour tournaments (outside the majors) in the remainder of the 2026 season,” Rahm said.
LIV Golf is now scrambling to raise enough capital to remain a viable tour after the Saudis offered an open checkbook to help lure stars away from the PGA Tour.
Whether they are able to do so will determine Rahm’s future.
“It’s still early,” LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil said Tuesday. “We haven’t gotten to market yet. We haven’t finalized our business plan. We still are like picking and prodding, but we have a good sense at this point, you know, 10 days in. We know where we’re going, and now we’re just going to tighten the screws.”
Brooks Koepka returned to the PGA Tour after his LIV Golf contract ended last season and Bryson DeChambeau’s future is up in the air with his contract up after this season.
Rahm initially stayed loyal to the PGA Tour when the first wave of stars left, but then took a reported $300 million to leave for LIV in December 2023 in a move that rocked the golf world.
But now his contract runs beyond some of the other superstar player, leaving him a tenuous position.