{"id":445685,"date":"2026-02-03T01:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:59:09","slug":"jon-rahm-happy-to-see-dp-world-tour-working-toward-resolution-regarding-liv-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445685\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm ‘happy to see’ DP World Tour working toward resolution regarding LIV fines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DP World Tour is reportedly working toward a resolution where it would stop fining its members for competing in conflicting LIV Golf events starting this year.<\/p>\n

The specifics aren\u2019t totally known, per reports by Flushing It<\/a> and Sports Illustrated, and not even Jon Rahm, the biggest name in this saga, has all the details. But speaking to reporters ahead of LIV\u2019s season opener in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Rahm confirmed something was in the works.<\/p>\n

\u201cI personally would say I don\u2019t know too much about the matter,\u201d Rahm said. \u201cObviously, I think at first, managers are going to be taking care of that early on. I don\u2019t know what the negotiations look like. Obviously, they\u2019re going to players individually to make different deals. I 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 penalized.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DP World Tour has been fining members for playing in conflicting LIV events since the inception of the rival league in June 2022, a decision that was later cleared through arbitration. Rahm revealed recently that he\u2019s accrued fines around $3 million since joining the Saudi-backed cricuit in December 2023, though he and LIV teammate Tyrrell Hatton are awaiting an appeal that was filed in late 2024. Both Rahm and Hatton were permitted to compete in last year\u2019s Ryder Cup, though their futures in the biennial competition have been uncertain.<\/p>\n

LIV will no longer pay fines beginning this year, and the league has reportedly been negotiating on having the current fines eliminated or reduced, per SI<\/a>. Part of the DP World Tour\u2019s new reported offer, past fines would still need to be settled, players would need to apply for conflicting-event releases, which will be approved, and the DP World Tour would likely dictate a handful of its own events that it wants those players to participate in.<\/p>\n

LIV has yet to comment on the matter, while the DP World Tour told SI via statement: \u201cWe continue to have dialogue with individual members involved to explore and discuss options.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rahm has teed it up in six DP World Tour events outside of the majors since joining LIV, including this past season\u2019s DP World Tour Championship, which also featured LIV members Hatton, Tom McKibbin, Adrian Meronk and Lucas Herbert. Also, David Puig won the season-opening Australian PGA last November.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the example of players like Tom 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 penalized because of the politics of the game,\u201d Rahm added. \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

Added Hatton: \u201cIt sounds positive, so if things are moving in the right direction, that\u2019s good for golf. Yeah, we\u2019ll let other people figure that out, and we\u2019ll just focus on playing golf this week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The DP World Tour is reportedly working toward a resolution where it would stop fining its members for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-445685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445685","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=445685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}