Jon Rahm insists he has not been requested to contribute his personal cash to help LIV Golf’s long-term future, however has refused to rule out doing so sooner or later.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund (PIF) introduced in April that they’ll finish their funding for LIV Golf on the finish of the 2026 season, leaving the league looking to seek out recent funding.
Bryson DeChambeau has beforehand mentioned he stays dedicated to the circuit and is “giving all he can” to assist it proceed, with LIV Golf in search of $300m in funding to make sure their survival past this yr.
Rahm stays hopeful of LIV Golf having the ability to proceed, with the Spaniard requested forward of that includes on the Genesis Scottish Open – stay from Thursday on Sky Sports activities – about gamers doubtlessly providing their very own monetary help to the circuit.
“Something I’ve learned in life – never say never,” Rahm mentioned in his pre-tournament press convention forward of the Genesis Scottish Open. “I’m not going to say absolutely no to anything that can happen in the future.”
On LIV Golf chasing recent funding, Rahm added: “I do know Scott (O’Neill, chief government) is doing quite a lot of work looking for builders. There’s some ways round that, so far as placing my cash into it.
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“They (LIV Golf) have not asked me to do that yet, so I don’t know if they will or not. It’s not something that they have asked me, but there has been many different avenues to try to make it different, what we’ve had till now. They haven’t asked me to put my money in yet.”
Rahm’s look on the Scottish Open is his first since 2022, with the occasion clashing with the LIV Golf Valderrama occasion the final two years.
“It [Scottish Open] is such a great week that if the schedule had allowed, I think I would have tried to play,” Rahm insisted. “I believe many people would have tried to play.
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“Although I love Valderrama, it’s a fantastic week, this one gets you much more prepared for The Open. That’s why so many players have come and played the Scottish Open before it was a co-sanctioned event.
“It nice to play a hyperlinks golf occasion earlier than a hyperlinks golf occasion, enjoying within the climate and the fescue grass and completely different [conditions] than what we’re enjoying yr round.”
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Rahm mentioned he ‘hadn’t seen’ particulars of PGA Tour’s proposed revamped 2028 schedule, which incorporates promotion and relegation in addition to extra of a global focus from September to January.
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The 2-time main champion has backed the choice to incorporate extra international golf on the PGA Tour schedule and hopes the Open de Espana, an occasion he has gained 3 times, might get elevated standing.
“One of my complaints back in the day that was changed was that I didn’t like when you finished the FedExCup, then seven days later starting a new FedExCup,” Rahm defined.
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“If you didn’t play in the fall, you were a thousand [FedExCup] points behind somebody. I don’t feel like it’s fair for the points race to start in January.
“With that mentioned, I at all times performed DP World Tour that point of yr as a result of it was onerous for me to play elsewhere earlier on due to these massive occasions within the Center East. Being within the West Coast my life, I at all times like these West Coast occasions.
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“I never really went and took advantage of those big events – I had to go afterwards. September through December was always my DP World Tour time. I never thought of adding anything else and, if we were to go back to that, I think a lot of people would think about it that way.
“If there’s any non-DP World Tour members that play the PGA Tour that need to reap the benefits of a few of their occasions, I believe it is fantastic. These occasions in Australia look unbelievable and from what I’ve skilled there, it is quite a lot of enjoyable.
“The Spanish Open, I’d hope for it to develop into an even bigger occasion. Once I was rising up, Spain had 5 to eight DP World Tour occasions. They have been all fairly massive and the Spanish Open had a little bit of an even bigger weight to it.
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“We have enough of a footprint in the history of the DP World Tour, with Seve (Ballesteros) and Sergio (Garcia) and all that many others have done, that I think Spain deserves to have a bigger event.
“If that opens the chance for that to occur, I believe it should not be the toughest promote. If you will get the suitable sponsor, the suitable course and the suitable prize cash, it is not that onerous to go to Spain.”
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