blow of Brooks Koepka\u2019s exit<\/a>, LIV finally being approved world ranking points could help the league retain some of its other big names who are soon out of contract.<\/p>\n\u201cAt this point, I think it\u2019s going to happen, but it would be nice to have them sooner than later,\u201d Rahm, who has plummeted to 85th in the rankings since joining LIV as the world No.3 two years ago, added. \u201cBefore the majors start so it gives the chance for some people to earn world ranking points.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last week, OWGR chairman Trevor Immelman provided a fairly ambiguous update on LIV\u2019s latest application for points.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the end of June, the Governing Board has endeavored to thoroughly evaluate the LIV Golf application,\u201d the former Masters champion said in a statement. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe remain committed to the OWGR\u2019s mission, which requires honoring the meritocracy woven into the professional game. As such, discussions have been regular and remain ongoing. <\/p>\n
\u201cTo be clear, progress has been made, but there is no decision to share at this time. We will continue to work closely with LIV Golf as it continues to evolve to ensure its application is handled with fairness, integrity and consistency, as stated previously.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rahm also spoke on a number of other topics\u2026<\/p>\n
Jon Rahm on\u2026 the next European Ryder Cup captain (if it\u2019s not Luke Donald)<\/p>\n
\u201cYou run into some issues [with] the ecosystem of golf \u2013 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be in a place where LIV guys are going to be captains that quickly. The only I would say, [with the 2027 Ryder Cup] being in Ireland, Graeme McDowell would make sense.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when you\u2019ve been a little removed from the DP World Tour and the core of the players and the young players. There\u2019s an effort the captain needs to do to go and see all the prospects and continue to play throughout the years and have a relationship and communication. It\u2019s going to be hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there\u2019s a chance it\u2019s maybe for 2031 for Sergio [Garcia] because there\u2019s enough time if things get better. But I don\u2019t know. I think Justin Rose still wants to play. He\u2019ll be a great captain but he wants to play. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say Francesco Molinari looks good. He\u2019s been a part of the vice-captaincy with Luke. His brother is in charge of stats.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jon Rahm on\u2026 his fines situation with the DP World Tour<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe that [2025] was my last Ryder Cup. Do I think fines are going to magically disappear? I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t think so. But I think it\u2019s going to slowly go away. I still don\u2019t agree with the fines, I don\u2019t know the exact number but I know it\u2019s between \u20ac1 [million] and \u20ac1.5 million each year. So \u20ac3 million for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one thing for me about the fines is the tournaments I\u2019m getting fined for not playing [are ones that] I\u2019ve never played and I will never play. I never played them when I was on the PGA Tour\u00a0and I would probably never play them in the future either because it was just not part of the schedule when I would play.<\/p>\n
\u201cBesides last year in January, I\u2019ve not played until the end of the year when you have Irish Open, Wentworth, Spanish Open, etc. To be fined for events I\u2019ve never been to seems a bit silly to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jon Rahm on\u2026 Brooks Koepka\u2019s decision to leave LIV Golf<\/p>\n
\u201cI had an idea but more through him than the league itself. I don\u2019t know what happened but I know he was dealing with some stuff off the golf course. I saw they made an announcement about a miscarriage. Luckily I can\u2019t say what that feels like but I don\u2019t wish it on anybody. I wish him the best. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had some great times with Brooks on the golf course, the \u201923 Masters I won, we had [LIV] Greenbrier, going at it at the Ryder Cup a few times. He\u2019s always fun to play with. [A] fast, honest guy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish he was staying and I could keep playing with him but hopefully we can compete for other events or majors in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf have made a number of major changes ahead of the 2026 season \u2013 and Jon Rahm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-394048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}