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<\/a><\/p>\nMickelson blew up his image but, despite winning the 2021 PGA Championship as a 50-year-old, his playing bona fides were long established. Bryson DeChambeau has always preferred to color outside the lines and has always been more of an outlier than an insider.<\/p>\n
Rahm\u2019s story, however, is compelling not just because he chose to leave the PGA Tour but because of what it potentially means to his long-term place in the game.<\/p>\n
A student of golf history, Rahm no doubt understands the ramifications of his abrupt turn away from the game\u2019s establishment to join LIV\u2019s rogue arrival after suggesting he wasn\u2019t interested in the new league\u2019s millions.<\/p>\n
No matter how much success Rahm has on LIV \u2013 he has two wins, three seconds and two other top-10s in seven league starts this season \u2013 it is weeks like this one that come with a heavier weight of expectations. Winning in Hong Kong and Mexico City came with abundant rewards but the majors are what will ultimately define Rahm.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was never like thinking that I was going to be any sort of weight that would tip the scales to make things come together. \u2026 I never made a decision based on that.\u201d \u2013 Jon Rahm<\/p>\n
In that way, he\u2019s no different than Brooks Koepka or Rory McIlroy or Scottie Scheffler, who are driven by the four weeks that matter more than any others. But the aftereffects of Rahm\u2019s LIV decision have been impossible to outrun and they were exacerbated by his now-resolved standoff with the DP World Tour.<\/p>\n
To no one\u2019s surprise, Rahm\u2019s career choice was at the center of his question-and-answer session with the media Tuesday morning, a subject drawing more acute interest given the recent announcement that Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund will end its funding of LIV after this season.<\/p>\n
Many believe that Rahm\u2019s decision \u2013 worth a rumored $300 million \u2013 was influenced by the notion his defection would force a settlement of some kind between the PGA Tour and LIV. It didn\u2019t happen and Rahm contends that was never part of his decision-making.<\/p>\n
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Rahm,\u00a0shown during Tuesday\u2019s practice round at Aronimink, isn\u2019t reconsidering his past decisions. Andrew Redington, Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI was never like thinking that I was going to be any sort of weight that would tip the scales to make things come together. That was never an argument in my mind,\u201d Rahm said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never made a decision based on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rahm said he doesn\u2019t live his life reconsidering decisions he\u2019s made.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all go back. We all think what could have been and what couldn\u2019t have been. It\u2019s inevitable,\u201d Rahm said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you made all the decisions \u2013 whatever decision you\u2019ve made or choice is thought through and made for the reasons that you think are proper reasons, there\u2019s no sense in dwelling on it. In fact, you shouldn\u2019t really be unhappy about it. At least there\u2019s nothing that you regret.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the terms change afterward, like it\u2019s happened with LIV that things changed a little bit, it\u2019s an afterthought, not a problem from the choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked directly about what he has learned from his LIV decision, Rahm offered a similarly direct response.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is for me to know, and that\u2019s about that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Rahm has finished in the top eight in three of his last six major championship starts, including a T8 in the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow last year when he briefly shared the Sunday lead with eventual winner Scheffler on the back nine.<\/p>\n
A week after being in the middle of a media storm swirling around LIV as it played an event in Virginia, the landscape is different at Aronimink. This week is about putting a name on the Wanamaker Trophy. The rest can be sorted out later.<\/p>\n
He talked afterward about how much fun he had feeling the major championship heat despite his disappointing finish. As physically and technically gifted as Rahm is, emotion is a part of his competitive equation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really fun to be out there in the landscape nowadays in which as players in LIV we hear a lot of things from articles, from social media, from comments. While I understand why things are being said, it\u2019s something you have to deal with,\u201d Rahm said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo go on that Sunday playing against Scottie and to feel the support and love from the crowd is what made it really enjoyable. When I made that birdie putt on 11 and I hit those good shots on 12 and 13 and almost made the putt on 13, the support from the crowd and the cheering from the crowd was what made it so much fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a realization of having such support from the crowd and playing good golf that made me realize in a way how I\u2019m truly perceived from the public, as opposed to what I read sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
A week after being in the middle of a media storm swirling around LIV as it played an event in Virginia, the landscape is different at Aronimink. This week is about putting a name on the Wanamaker Trophy. The rest can be sorted out later.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is funny in a sport that we like to be in control so much, how little we are actually in control. Because once you hit the ball, that\u2019s it. You\u2019re in control of what you think, what you\u2019re feeling,\u201d Rahm said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor, essentially, a sport in which the result of the shot is pretty much completely deterministic to what we do, knowing that it\u2019s our fault how much we deflect, at least I deflect, is just a funny irony within that of knowing that I\u2019m in control; knowing that I\u2019m the one doing things; how much I can deflect in the moment or that it wasn\u2019t my fault because sometimes it\u2019s just hard to accept that it\u2019s your fault.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo in that sense, yeah, you want to be in control, but I\u2019m in control of my golf game. I\u2019m not in control of everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jon Rahm\u2019s career has changed drastically since joining LIV Golf. Carl Recine, Getty Images<\/p>\n