{"id":387605,"date":"2026-01-24T08:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387605\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:01:11","slug":"liv-golf-star-agrees-to-pay-expensive-dp-world-tour-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387605\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf star agrees to pay &#8216;expensive&#8217; DP World Tour fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhile Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton are appealing their hefty fines, another LIV Golf star is willing to make a sacrifice\u2026<\/p>\n<p>David Puig is bucking the trend on LIV Golf. <\/p>\n<p>With Ryder Cup heroes Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton among those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/jon-rahm-dp-world-tour-fines-rory-mcilroy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">locked in a legal battle<\/a> over sanctions imposed on them by the DP World Tour, one of the league\u2019s brightest young talents has just joined the Wentworth-based circuit as a full-time member.<\/p>\n<p>Before his year, LIV have settled the fines handed down to DP World Tour members playing on the rival league without a tournament release. In his two seasons since joining LIV, Rahm has revealed he\u2019s racked up $3 million in penalties.<\/p>\n<p>But the taps have now been turned off by LIV\u2019s benefactors \u2013 the Saudi Public Investment Fund. So until the appeal for Rahm and Hatton is heard, players will now need to fork out from their own pockets to play on two separate tours.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a sacrifice Puig is willing to make to play on the tour which he grew up watching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be\u00a0part of the tour so I\u2019ll do everything I can and to you know to keep being part of it,\u201d Puig tells TG at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/dubai-desert-classic-prize-money\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hero Dubai Desert Classic<\/a>. \u201cIf\u00a0that means paying whatever amount I\u2019ll do it and obviously they\u2019ve got to find a solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI feel like which at some point I think they would and hopefully we all\u00a0have the same rules and whatever they decide at the end it\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s expensive, but I\u2019m willing to do that and that\u2019s why I joined the tour. We\u2019ll see what\u00a0happens. In my case you know I\u2019m willing to\u00a0do as much as I can to be part of this tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Puig won his maiden DP World Tour title at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/bmw-australian-pga-championship-prize-money\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BMW Australian PGA Championship<\/a> in November, but currently has no access to major championships as LIV continue to chase world ranking points.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why he admits he\u2019s feeling extra pressure to perform here in Dubai \u2013 his debut in a Rolex Series event \u2013 where he is 4-under par and in contention for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying here is great,\u201d he says. \u201cI grew up watching this tour, spent\u00a0pretty much my entire life in Spain and watching what was the European Tour. Obviously we\u00a0get the ranking points and we play against unbelievable players as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we have that little bit extra pressure of wanting\u00a0to do well. But today was a great day and I\u2019m looking forward to the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton are appealing their hefty fines, another LIV Golf star is willing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-387605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}