{"id":665309,"date":"2026-05-12T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665309\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:02:08","slug":"jon-rahm-liv-golf-chiefs-responsible-for-fixing-breakaway-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665309\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm: LIV Golf chiefs responsible for ‘fixing’ breakaway circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time major winner Jon Rahm says he does not envy the job facing LIV Golf’s bosses but remains confident they will find a solution to ensure its survival.<\/p>\n

Last month, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced it will withdraw its multi-billion dollar backing for the breakaway circuit at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

LIV announced a “strategic evolution” in response – including a newly established independent board – as it bids to find replacement financial investors.<\/p>\n

Rahm, 31, was arguably the most high profile name to join LIV when he left the PGA Tour in December 2023 for a deal worth a reported \u00a3222m ($300m).<\/p>\n

Some players, including Brooks Koepka, have since returned to the PGA Tour, which rewrote its rules in December to allow the five-time major winner to come back, subject to certain sanctions.<\/p>\n

Spain’s Rahm did not follow suit and remains under long-term contract with LIV, but last week reached a deal with the DP World Tour – formerly the European Tour – which will see him retain his membership and remain eligible for next year’s Ryder Cup.<\/a><\/p>\n

Rahm said he was “in control of his golf game” but “not in control of anything else” when asked whether uncertainty over the future of LIV Golf was on his mind before this week’s US PGA Championship at Aronimink, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

“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 told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“My job is to play golf, luckily. I’m decent at it. And that’s what I can focus on.<\/p>\n

“It’s the people in charge of LIV, whose job I do not envy for a second, it’s their job to fix it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time major winner Jon Rahm says he does not envy the job facing LIV Golf’s bosses but remains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-665309","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\/665309","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=665309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}