Jon Rahm Has Spoken Clear And “Angrily” About The Rumors Surrounding That He Wants To Leave LIV Golf

Jon Rahm breaks silence on claims he wants to LEAVE LIV Golf and return to the PGA Tour

Jon Rahm has vehemently denied reports suggesting he wants to leave LIV Golf less than a year after joining the Saudi-backed rebel tour.

Rahm, 29, cut ties with the PGA Tour after putting pen to paper on an eye-watering $400million deal with LIV in December 2023.

The Spaniard had won the Masters eight months prior and was also ranked No 3 in the world at the time, but he has since dropped to No 13 after a frustrating season which saw him miss the cut at the PGA Championship.

Amid his struggles, an unnamed ‘veteran tour insider’ told Golf Digest’s Jaime Diaz earlier this month that he would be prepared to give the Saudis back their $400m if he could quit LIV Golf and rejoin the PGA Tour.

Yet in an interview with the New York Post, Rahm has expressed confusion after insisting there is no truth to those claims.

I don’t know why they feel the need to say that some of us are unhappy when we’re not.

‘It’s one of the things that frustrates me a little bit, the fact that they can claim that there’s a source and there’s zero truth to it.

Instead, the two-time major winner is adamant that he made the right decision in swapping the PGA Tour for LIV Golf.

‘I’m very comfortable with my decision, very happy with my decision, very, very eager for the future of my team and the league,’ he continued about the tour’s team-based format.

‘I get to be a part of something very different to what we had in the past. I always enjoyed being part of a team and to be in charge of one now is something incredible.’

Rahm, who is in New York this week for the US Open tennis championship, tied for 45th at this year’s Masters in a miserable defense of his crown after earning the green jacket in 2023, before missing the cut at the PGA Championship a month later

Despite his woes, though, the golf star is refusing to put it down to teething problems as he gets to grips with life away from the PGA Tour.

‘I don’t think the adjustment was that bad or that long,’ Rahm explained. ‘I think it was more about just me not playing my best. I’m never going to blame the outside environment.

You can maybe make that excuse for one or two weeks, but not for the entire first half of the season, right? So it was absolutely 100 percent me for the most part.’