What does Jon Rahm’s PGA win mean for LIV? He wants to show you on Sunday

Jon Rahm, whose PGA Championship week began with a LIV Golf Q&A, may see it end with a LIV Q&A.

But not before.

Rahm wished for that late Saturday afternoon at Aronimink Golf Club just outside Philly, where he had just shot a three-under 67 that left him in a five-way tie for second and two shots behind leader Alex Smalley. LIV questions, of course, are inevitable, as Rahm joined the circuit in late 2023, then recently saw both lose support of its main investor, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, and the search for new money.

And the questions came Tuesday, in Rahm’s pre-tournament presser. Five in all.

WILL Rahm did you do anything differently in deciding to leave the PGA Tour to sign a big dollar deal with LIV? No, Rahm said, all he could do was learn.

The reporter then wanted to confirm that, indeed, Rahm does not look back.

“Well, we all go back,” he said. “We all think about what could have been and what could not have been. It’s inevitable.

“If you’ve made all the decisions—whatever decision you’ve made or the choice you’ve made has been thought through and made for what you think are the right reasons, there’s no point dwelling on it. In fact, you shouldn’t really be unhappy about it. At least there’s nothing you regret.

“If the terms change afterwards – as happened with LIV that things changed a bit – it’s an afterthought, not a problem by choice. I’d say the elements have changed a bit. That’s it.”

What did he learn from the movement?

“That’s for me to know,” Rahm said, “and that’s about it.”

But has it been hard to separate? No, he said. Was it hard not being in control? No, he said again. He has his golf game under control, he said.

“My job is to play golf. Fortunately. I’m good at it. And that’s what I can focus on, right,” Rahm said. “What I can focus on is the next shoot. It’s the people at the helm of LIV whose work I don’t envy for one second, not now, not when things are going well because it’s not something I think I can do. It’s their job to fix it.

“So when it comes to the division, when you look at it from that point of view, there’s not much to it. I have faith in the work that they’re doing. I have faith that they’re going to come up with a good plan.

“Until that plan is explained to us, it’s basically—not that there’s anything to worry about, but I don’t think I need to pay attention.”

Of course, you wouldn’t expect Rahm to say anything against all of this. But for three days, he also seems to have played to prove those words right.

Rahm hasn’t shot above par — one-under 69, even-par 70, three-under 67 — on an Aronimink course that has mostly stunned everyone. On Saturday, he called his game fantastic. He said he played patiently. A guy on 18, after a 4-foot miss for first, surprised him, but he seemed optimistic. He called his game this year, at times, better than what he did in 2023, when he won the Masters.

“I would say so far this week it’s felt really, really good,” Rahm said.

And he’ll take your LIV questions on Sunday.

After his third round, Rahm was asked how “meaningful” a win would be for LIV – which elicited this response:

“Honestly, in a week like this, one, I’m thinking more about myself. I’m not going to take anything outside of what I can control when it comes to racing tomorrow.

“If I finish and I sit here again tomorrow, then you can ask me the same question and I will give you an answer. But what it means for Spain also in the Grand Slam rankings and to be the last part of the Grand Slam for us as well, there are a lot of things that mean a lot, but a lot of things are out of my control.

“So hopefully I can continue to do what I’ve done so far this week, especially today, and I have a chance to answer that tomorrow.”

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