Jon Rahm was one of LIV Golf’s marquee signings when he defected to join the Saudi-backed tour a few years ago.
A global superstar in the prime of his career, Rahm was paid a reported fee in excess of £200million to make the move.
Along with Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and others, Rahm was one of the top stars who was supposed to carry LIV forward long-term.
Now, with the Saudis withdrawing their funding and the LIV Tour hanging by a thread, he’s contemplating the idea of using his own cash to prop it up.
It is utterly absurd. Koepka has already moved back the other way and rejoined the PGA Tour.
Rahm is considering using some of his own cash to keep the LIV Tour going
Rahm is now back on these shores playing in the Genesis Scottish Open for the first time since 2022. When is he going to wake up and admit defeat with LIV? The whole project is doomed and has no viable future.
The Saudis gave Rahm the biggest payday of his career, truly life-changing money. But they are also robbing him of what ought to be the best years of his career.
The prospect of anyone on the LIV Tour having to fork out their own money just to keep the lights on is ridiculous.
The whole project never got off the ground. Nobody watched LIV events or paid them any attention. The players became an irrelevance. In Rahm’s case, that’s a shame for a guy who was the best player on the planet shortly before he joined.
The longer he persists with all of this, the more he harms his own career. It is total folly.
