without paying the fines<\/a>. But now he has dropped it, Rahm, under Tour rules, is required to clear his slate before he can tee it up in any Tour event. If he does not do so, he would lose his membership and thus remove his name from consideration for Luke Donald\u2019s team, even as a wildcard.<\/p>\nSources indicate that the Tour is determined not to bend regardless of Donald\u2019s wish to have Rahm in his dozen in County Limerick. \u201cWhat Jon doesn\u2019t seem to grasp is that, yes, while all our regular members play four minimum, they\u2019re not members of a Tour that is in direct competition with us,\u201d the insider said. \u201cOf course no one needs releases to play PGA Tour events but that\u2019s because that\u2019s a Tour that is our partner.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe withdrew sanctions from the eight other LIV players but we\u2019re never just going to lie down and do that; there had to be \u2018conditions\u2019 attached to us doing that for them \u2013 ie. extra events and pay the fines. Which they all agreed to. Does he seriously think the rules don\u2019t apply to him?\u201d<\/p>\n
The saga has caused friction in the famously tight European team room. Rory McIlroy, for one, has expressed his bemusement at Rahm\u2019s continued stubbornness, while Justin Rose has also urged the former world No 1 to pay his fines.<\/p>\n
Rahm continues to perform with distinction inside the ropes, although he was beaten to the \u00a33m first prize in Steyn City on Sunday by Bryson DeChambeau.<\/p>\n
The pair finished locked on 26-under after shooting respective final rounds of 63 and 65. DeChambeau prevailed on the first sudden death hole courtesy of a birdie for his second consecutive LIV win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rahm has previously indicated he has no intention of paying the backlog and for the Tour that is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,118461,755,15811,228289,51335,756,14605,588,85,156,275075],"class_list":["post-557802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-golf","tag-jon-rahm","tag-liv-golf-invitational-series","tag-luke-donald","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-ryder-cup","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}