{"id":420789,"date":"2026-01-21T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420789\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:44:07","slug":"pay-up-rory-mcilroy-delivers-ryder-cup-warning-to-liv-pair-hatton-and-rahm-european-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420789\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pay up\u2019: Rory McIlroy delivers Ryder Cup warning to LIV pair Hatton and Rahm | European Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy has challenged Tyrrell Hatton and Jon Rahm to demonstrate their commitment to the Ryder Cup cause by settling fines for their LIV Golf participation.<\/p>\n

McIlroy pointed towards motivation used by Europe during victory at Bethpage<\/a> last September after it emerged the United States players were paid to play in the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

The switches of Rahm and Hatton to LIV has drawn fines \u2013 totalling several million pounds \u2013 due to tournament conflict with the DP World Tour, where both remain members. Both golfers launched appeals against the sanctions in 2024 but the cases are still to he heard. Rahm has been adamant he will not pay fines. The issue has potential to cause a headache for Luke Donald should he, as expected, remain as the European captain<\/a> for 2027\u2019s Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

McIlroy was typically forthright when asked whether Rahm and Hatton should settle the debt due to the European Tour<\/a> Group. \u201cYes, absolutely,\u201d said the Masters champion. \u201cWe went really hard on the Americans about being paid to play the Ryder Cup and we also said that we would pay to play in Ryder Cups. There\u2019s two guys that can prove it.\u201d<\/p>\n

McIlroy\u2019s sentiment is believed to be shared by other senior figures among Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup<\/a> contingent. \u201cI think any organisation or any members\u2019 organisation like this has a right to uphold its rules and regulations,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cWhat the DP World Tour are doing is upholding their rules and regulations. We, as members, sign a document at the start of every year, which has you agree to these rules and regulations. The people that made the option to go to LIV knew what they were. So I don\u2019t see what\u2019s wrong with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intriguingly, McIlroy has Hatton, the defending champion, for company in rounds one and two at this week\u2019s Dubai Desert Classic. The Englishman shrugged off McIlroy\u2019s comments. \u201cI don\u2019t have anything to add,\u201d said Hatton. \u201cI have always been extremely proud to be a member of the DP World Tour. It is pretty hard to make Ryder Cup teams and I have been fortunate to play in the last four. Hopefully I will be able to play more in the future, hopefully the only thing that stops me is age and younger talent taking my spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have an update to give. It\u2019s still with legal teams and there\u2019s guys that are still in conversations working it all out. So I haven\u2019t put any more thought into that. I don\u2019t really know what\u2019s happening. I\u2019m just here to play golf, as always.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tyrrell Hatton, the defending Dubai Desert Classic champion, said he had \u2018nothing to add\u2019 to Rory McIlroy\u2019s comments about fines. Photograph: Warren Little\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

McIlroy also reiterated his belief that a unified sport \u2013 where the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV operate in alignment \u2013 remains impossible. Talks between the PGA Tour and LIV broke down last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say that is solution A,\u201d McIlroy said of unification. \u201cIt matters. But I just don\u2019t see a world where it can happen at this point. I definitely think the traditional tours, if you want to call them that, have weathered the worst of the storm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see a world where the two or three sides will give up enough. For reunification to happen, every side is going to feel like they will have lost, where you really want every side to feel like they have won. I think they are just too far apart for that to happen. I think relationships are better, but at the same time, that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that every organisation will give up in its own best interests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy has challenged Tyrrell Hatton and Jon Rahm to demonstrate their commitment to the Ryder Cup cause…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-420789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}