Jon Rahm pictured at the 2024 LIV Golf Greenbrier event in August.
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The rumor mill has been busy with the former PGA Tour star turned LIV Golf headliner Jon Rahm Recently, and for the first time, Rahm is publicly denouncing the speculation as false.
Much of the blow came from the shock the golf world experienced when the two-time major winner announced that he would be leaving the tour to join LIV end of last year.
Rahm had already had an extremely successful career on the PGA Tour up to that point, to the tune of 11 wins, and he was considered to have one of the brightest futures, which made his decision to join LIV that much more surprising.
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When Rahm struggled mightily to start his LIV career, whispers about one question grew in intensity: Did Rahm regret his fateful decision to leave the Tour?
Recently, Golf Digest cited an anonymous professional says Rahm He did deeply regrets his decision and that the former world number 1 was looking for a way back to the Tour.
But in an interview with New York Post released Thursday, Rahm vehemently denied the rumors.
“There is zero validity to what any of them said. I don’t know where it came from,” Rahm told him post.
He expressed frustration at observers outside LIV Golf trying to paint LIV professionals as “unhappy” with the Saudi-funded circuit.
“I don’t know why they feel the need to say some of us are unhappy when we’re not,” Rahm said. “It’s one of the things that frustrates me a little bit, the fact that they can claim there’s a source and there’s zero truth to it.”
As for his early season struggles at LIV events, Rahm claimed it had nothing to do with being uncomfortable with the new tournament. Instead, he argued that his game just wasn’t in a good place.
“I don’t think the adjustment was that bad or that long. I think it was more that I wasn’t playing my best. I will never blame the outside environment.” Rahm said THE post. “Maybe you can make that excuse for a week or two, but not for the whole first half of the season, right? So it was absolutely 100 percent me for the most part.”
In the end, Rahm said he was excited about the future and happy with his decision.
“I’m very happy with my decision, very happy with my decision, very, very excited about the future of my team and the league,” Rahm said in the interview.
For the record, Rahm eventually turned his game around, winning his first LIV title at LIV Golf UK in July, and then lost in a playoff to Brooks Koepka at LIV Golf Greenbrier two weeks ago.
It also improved its key performances at the end of the year. After finishing T45 at the 2024 Masters, missing the PGA cut and withdrawing from the US Open, Rahm tied for 7th at the Open Championship in July.
