{"id":635854,"date":"2026-05-11T03:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635854\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T03:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:22:14","slug":"liv-golf-broadcast-appears-to-miss-jon-rahm-albatross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/635854\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf broadcast appears to miss Jon Rahm albatross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are going from very bad to whatever is worse than very bad for LIV Golf.<\/p>\n<p>The rogue golf tour <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/golf\/liv-deliver-news-saudi-funding-setback.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">soon to be de-funded by its Saudi benefactors<\/a> played the final round of its tournament from Trump National Golf Course outside Washington, D.C. on Sunday. But it seems the broadcast missed one of its biggest stars hitting one of the rarest shots in all of golf.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by the prominent golf account NUCLR GOLF, LIV Golf star Jon Rahm carded an albatross on the Par-5 17th hole on Sunday, but the shot was never shown on the Fox Sports broadcast of the event, nor was it available to view on the LIV Golf website at the time of this writing. A subsequent search conducted by Awful Announcing found neither a replay nor a mention of the albatross on the LIV broadcast.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83e\udda4\u2753<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UNDOCUMENTED?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#UNDOCUMENTED<\/a> ALBATROSS? \u2014 LIV Golf star Jon Rahm made an albatross (2) today at the Par 5, 17th in Virginia but the moment went unmentioned on the broadcast and no video appears to be available on the app<\/p>\n<p>Will we see the video? \ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QAapwl3aTk\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QAapwl3aTk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NUCLRGOLF\/status\/2053582224012849528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The apparent botch is dripping in irony amid the complete uncertainty facing LIV Golf following this season, the last of which to be funded by Saudi Arabia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main selling points for LIV Golf when it launched in 2022 was that it would be a fast-paced telecast. The mission statement was to show more golf shots in less time, cutting down on much of the dead air that is common throughout a golf broadcast. One initiative introduced to meet this goal was the \u201cDon\u2019t Blink\u201d segment that would take viewers through a series of golf shots in quick succession that otherwise would not be shown. Typically, these shots would be shown because they were of exceptional quality, or they were relevant to the team competition but not the individual leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm\u2019s albatross would presumably exceed the requirements to be featured in a \u201cDon\u2019t Blink\u201d segment, and would typically be shown throughout the normal course of the broadcast. After all, an albatross is one of the rarest shots in golf, and there\u2019s only been five in LIV Golf history, according to the league\u2019s own stats and data account.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rahm\u2019s albatross on the par 5 17th is the 5th in league history and 3rd of the season. It is his first.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LIV Golf Data (@LIVGolfData) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LIVGolfData\/status\/2053570540254716235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But apparently it still wasn\u2019t fit for television. Or, more likely, the LIV Golf cameras somehow missed the shot altogether. So far, there\u2019s no video evidence that it actually happened.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s the case, it\u2019d be emblematic of the dysfunction that has been part and parcel with LIV since its launch. We\u2019ll wait and see if the video exists. But as of now, it\u2019s looking unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things are going from very bad to whatever is worse than very bad for LIV Golf. 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