Rory McIlroy effectively said that they had the opportunity to prove how much the Ryder Cup and DP World Tour membership meant<\/a> to them by paying up.<\/p>\nSpeculation about a breakthrough emerged following a report from Flushing It Golf on X, which cited multiple sources suggesting the DP World Tour could be preparing to drop fines for Rahm, Hatton, and other LIV-affiliated members. Those reportedly included players such as Adrian Meronk, Tom McKibbin, and David Puig.<\/p>\n
\u201cMultiple sources indicate that the DP World Tour will drop fines for members playing on the LIV Golf League for this season,\u201d Flushing It Golf said on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll existing fines up until the end of 2025 will need to be settled, but releases will be granted to all members who apply for competing LIV Golf League events in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition, the DP World Tour has the right to nominate events players must commit to.\u201d<\/p>\n
The DP World Tour has not confirmed the report, instead telling Sports Illustrated that it remains in ongoing discussions, saying it continues having \u201cdialogue with individual members involved to explore and discuss options.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both Rahm and Hatton are in Saudi Arabia this week for the opening event of the 2026 LIV Golf season in Riyadh. While speaking to media ahead of the tournament, Rahm acknowledged that talks are taking place on an individual basis and suggested the approach could benefit all parties.<\/p>\n
\u201cI personally would say I don\u2019t know too much about the matter,\u201d Rahm said.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously I think at first, managers are going to be taking care of that early on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what the negotiations look like. Obviously they\u2019re going to players individually to make different deals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what it may be or what it\u2019s going to look like but I\u2019m happy to see that looking for a path forward for LIV players to be able to play on both tours and not to get penalised.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the example of players like Tom [McKibbin] or David Puig, who\u2019s now a winner on the European Tour, who just chose the best path possible as young players, shouldn\u2019t be penalised because of the politics of the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that they\u2019re looking at a positive way to figure it out, I think it\u2019s only good for us, and I think it\u2019s good for the DP World Tour, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hatton offered a shorter response but echoed Rahm\u2019s sentiment.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot much more to add than what he\u2019s just said. It sounds positive, so if things are moving in the right direction, that\u2019s good for golf,\u201d Hatton said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, we\u2019ll let other people figure that out, and we\u2019ll just focus on playing golf this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rahm is making his first competitive appearance since the Spanish Open in October after more than three months away from tournament play. He begins the 2026 season ranked 97th in the Official World Golf Ranking, having slipped since joining LIV Golf, though reports continue to suggest the league may soon receive ranking points.<\/p>\n
Despite the ranking drop, the two-time major champion has dominated LIV Golf\u2019s season-long standings, winning the individual title in both of his campaigns and narrowly beating Joaquin Niemann on each occasion.<\/p>\n
LIV Golf Riyadh begins under floodlights on Wednesday and will also mark the introduction of the league\u2019s new 72-hole tournament format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm believes a potential resolution between the DP World Tour and individual LIV Golf players would be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,104706,622,1977,6674,82,9753],"class_list":["post-449855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dp-world-tour","tag-golf","tag-jon-rahm","tag-liv-golf","tag-sports","tag-tyrrell-hatton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449855","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=449855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}