LIV Golf’s struggle to survive beyond this season after Saudi backers pulled future financing will not be a distraction for Jon Rahm when the PGA Championship begins Thursday at Aronimink.
Rahm, the two-time reigning LIV season champion and 2026 points leader, said Tuesday he has faith that LIV officials will develop a solid plan to sustain the series.
“It’s something we’ve had to deal with,” Rahm said. “But it’s just some things that are out of my control.
“What I can focus on is the next shot. It’s the people in charge of LIV, whose job I do not envy for a second, … it’s their job to fix it.
“I have faith in the work they’re doing. I have faith that they’re going to come up with a good plan.
“Until that plan is explained to us, not that there isn’t anything to worry about, but I don’t think I need to add any attention to it.”
The 31-year-old Spaniard, winner of the 2021 US Open and 2023 Masters, jumped from the PGA Tour to LIV in December 2023 and has dominated this season with LIV titles at Hong Kong in March and Mexico City in April plus runner-up efforts in Riyadh, Adelaide and South Africa.
Rahm noted the irony in his success on shotmaking control on the course but little power to control business matters away from it.
“It’s funny in a sport that we like to be in control so much, how little we are actually in control,” Rahm said. “I’m in control of my golf game. I’m not in control of everything else.”
Rahm said any lessons learned from his decision to join LIV “is for me to know” but said his philosophy is that decisions must be made with no regrets or unhappiness.
“If the terms change afterwards, like it has happened with LIV that things changed a little bit, it’s an afterthought, not a problem from the choice,” he said.
Rahm said he never thought his move might help bring the still-feuding PGA Tour and LIV together.
“I was never like thinking I was going to be any sort of weight that would tip the scales to make things come together,” Rahm said.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, and all we can do is learn from things that happen in the past good and bad.”
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