LIV Golf is in a fight for survival. The purpose? Replace mountains of money withdrawn from Saudi Arabia’s PIF with billions of dollars from new investors. The frantic investment push is being backed directly by LIV’s biggest star Bryson DeChambeau.
However, LIV’s next biggest star, Jon Rahm, is following a very different path. At his press conference Monday at this week’s LIV Golf Andalucia event, Rahm revealed that unlike DeChambeau, he is not involved in LIV’s search for investors.
Not only does he not want to be involved, Rahm also explained why it would be a bad idea for LIV’s business leaders to include him in investor meetings.
Why Rahm isn’t helping LIV find investors: ‘I don’t know anything about business’
Rahm is in the middle of it the best season of his LIV Golf career. While he won the LIV individual title the past two years, Rahm claimed the 2025 crown without winning a tournament.
This year, he is leading the LIV Individual standings again, but this time he already has two wins, at LIV Golf Hong Kong in March and LIV Golf Mexico City in April. In May, he burst back into contention with a T2 at the PGA Championship.
of two-time grand champion has achieved all this, while the future of LIV Golf and himself has been called into question.
PIF’s decision to suddenly abandon LIV is of particular concern to Rahm, who is still under contract to play on the tour for an unknown number of years. As he did finally settles a long-running dispute with DP World Tour recently, he hasn’t publicly flirted with a PGA Tour comeback, as DeChambeau has done on several occasions.
Given that Rahm’s future is deeply intertwined with that of LIV, it may come as a surprise that he isn’t involved in the league’s pursuit of investors.
“I’m not, no. I said it in Spanish; I don’t know how to translate it into English. It would be more of a ‘stay in your lane’ type of situation, as it is for me,” Rahm said at his press conference Monday at LIV Golf Andalucia.
He went on to state that he knows “nothing about business,” so if he went to an investor meeting at LIV, he wouldn’t have a clue what to say.
“I don’t know anything about business. I would never pretend to know anything about business,” Rahm said, “And if I were in a business field, I wouldn’t know the first thing to say.”
He continued: “My job is to play golf and I’ll say it’s tough enough as it is, especially this week.”
The reality, however, is that if LIV Golf folds after this season, Rahm will have to find another place to do his work.
Rahm backs Bryson DeChambeau ‘giving it his all’ for LIV’s future
While Rahm is choosing to stay on the sidelines of LIV Golf’s business pitches to investors, he expressed support for players like Bryson DeChambeau getting involved.
“If any player who knows what they’re doing is willing to do some things like that, I think it can only help. Having a player’s knowledge of a meeting like that can help, and I’m open to any suggestions,” Rahm said.
Rahm then claimed that he doesn’t have the “free time that Bryson has” to attend LIV investment meetings because he has to take care of his children.
“I would also say that I don’t have the time off that Bryson has to fly across the country to attend meetings with three little ones and one on the way,” Rahm said. “Even if I wanted to, I don’t know if I would.”
The contrast between the positions Rahm and DeChambeau find themselves in at this critical juncture is interesting.
While Rahm is signed to LIV Golf for the next few years, DeChambeau’s contract ends after this season. But Rahm only started playing at LIV in 2024. DeChambeau, on the other hand, has been with LIV since its inception and acted as its most vocal supporter.
That might explain it why DeChambeau is choosing to help LIV in its push for survivalwhile Rahm does not.
At last week’s LIV Golf Korea event, DeChambeau expressed optimism in LIV’s business plan, despite PIF’s “surprising” decision to withdraw from the league.
“One door closes, another one opens. I think that’s the way a lot of us are looking at it,” DeChambeau said last week. “I think we’re all optimistic that there’s a business plan that makes sense for team golf. I’ll honestly say actually — how do I say it? I’m very optimistic about the business plan for team golf compared to other models, in my opinion.”
He added that he was “giving it his all” to help LIV’s investment efforts.
“We’ll see if investors like it or not,” he said. “I’m giving everything I can to make it happen, and if it doesn’t happen, it won’t happen.”
