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With LIV Golf’s future up in the air, Rahm is at Aronimink Golf Club outside of Philadelphia for PGA Championship trying to look ahead.
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Published May 12, 2026 • 4 minute read
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NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — If Jon Rahm has learned any lessons from his decision to sign with LIV Golf, he’s not saying.
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“That is for me to know,” the two-time major winner said on Tuesday ahead of the PGA Championship.
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With LIV Golf’s future up in the air, Rahm is at Aronimink Golf Club outside of Philadelphia trying to look ahead despite a golfing future that, at the moment, is rather full of unknowns.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow and all we can do is learn from things that happen in the past good and bad. Just to speculate on what could have done, what could have been different doesn’t really make much sense,” Rahm said.
“I could do that with about 15 different golf shots on the golf course every single day,” he said. “If I lived my life like that as a golfer, I would be a very pessimistic person.”
Following news that LIV’s Saudi funding will be pulled at season’s end, Rahm and others who chose to leave the PGA Tour are left wondering what will happen to the breakaway tour and where they will be teeing it up as early as next year.
“Out of the few talents I have in my life, fixing a business is not one of them. I might be the worst person for that,” he said.
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“So my job is to play golf. Luckily, I’m decent at it,” he added. “People in charge of LIV, whose job I do not envy for a second … It’s their job to fix it.”
Would Rahm be welcomed back to PGA Tour?
Rahm said he has faith that LIV will come up with a plan to continue. Truth is, it will be tough sell to attract investors to a company that couldn’t make it work after five years with unlimited funds. The more likely scenario is Rahm and others will soon be looking to return to a golf ecosystem they played a role in trying to disrupt.
Of all the players who left the PGA Tour, Rahm’s departure was the most shocking and it would not be surprising if hard feelings remain. The Spaniard famously pledged his allegiance to the American tour and said that $400 million wouldn’t change his lifestyle, before changing his mind and bolting for LIV at a time when it seemed the balance of power in the war for golf’s future was rather precarious.
Unlike Bryson DeChambeau whose unique personality always made him seem a bit of an outsider on the PGA Tour, Rahm would go out of his way to detail his fascination with the traditions of the game.
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In press conferences ahead of big tournaments, he would constantly reference past champions and highlight his knowledge of golf history, a history he seemed obsessed with adding his name to.
What Rahm clearly wasn’t prepared for was spending the past three years wandering in golf’s wilderness, unnoticed by many as he won LIV Golf’s individual title two years in a row.
“I’m not going to get into specifics. I will just say I feel like the way I’ve played, including the last three years, I would say I feel like I’m — I should be — I feel like I’m playing better than the ranking I have right now,” Rahm said.
“I’m not going to get into the details of what number I would be because I don’t want to insult any player who doesn’t play fantastic golf, but I feel like higher than I am right now, that would be fair.”
Rahm recently settled a dispute with the DP World Tour, agreeing to pay fines that will restore his European Ryder Cup eligibility and allow him to play in select DP World Tour events this year.
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What’s at stake this week for Rahm?
A win this week at the PGA Championship would give Masters and U.S. Open winner Rahm three of the four legs of the career grand slam, and propel him back into the historic trajectory that he chose, unwittingly or not, to leave behind three years ago.
A win at Aronimink would also make Rahm the first Spaniard to win the PGA Championship, the only major not won by Rahm or his fellow countrymen.
“It is something that is in my mind,” he said of being the first Spaniard to win this championship. “Even though every major is extremely special in that way, to tie it all together with the greats of the past of Spain would be quite unique.”
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For a man so enamoured with the past, Rahm seems determined to keep looking forward, at least publicly.
“Whatever decision you’ve made or choice is thought through and made for the reasons that you think are proper reasons, there’s no sense in dwelling on it,” he said. “In fact, you shouldn’t really be unhappy about it.
“If the terms change afterward, like it’s happened with LIV that things changed a little bit, it’s an afterthought, not a problem from the choice. I would say that elements have changed a little bit. That’s it.”
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