Jon Rahm will take the PGA Tour cash for staying loyal if they provide it to him. He doesn’t actually suppose he deserves it, although.
Rahm stated on Tuesday forward of the British Open that the gamers who caught with the tour don’t must be compensated financially for not becoming a member of LIV Golf, saying they weren’t pressured to remain.
Rahm gained the primary main of the yr on the Masters and is seeking to seize the final one as properly to develop into the primary Spaniard to win the Open since Seve Ballesteros greater than three a long time in the past.
The risk of compensation by the tour for individuals who stayed loyal and declined the large quantities of cash supplied by LIV Golf gained traction after the current announcement of the proposal of a partnership between the PGA Tour and the Saudis who created the breakaway competitors.
“I understand the PGA Tour wanting to do something for those players who helped and stayed on the PGA Tour, but at the same time — and I’ll be the first one to say — I wasn’t forced into anything,” Rahm stated at a news convention at Royal Liverpool. “It was my choice to stay. I just stayed because I think it’s the best choice for myself and for the golf I want to play. Now, with that said, if they want to do it, I’m not going to say no.”
Rahm has been probably the most vocal defenders of the tour for the reason that battle with LIV Golf began, and continued to defend it after the shock announcement of the cope with the Saudis.
“We all had the chance to go to LIV and take the money and we chose to stay at the PGA Tour for whatever reason we chose,” he stated. “I already make an amazing living doing what I do. I’m extremely thankful, and that all happened because of the platform the PGA Tour provided me. They’ve done enough for me, and their focus should be on improving the PGA Tour and the game of golf for the future generations.”
Rory McIlroy, the strongest voice for the tour within the dispute with the Saudis, stated final month that the loyal gamers in all probability deserved to be compensated, although he acknowledged that it could be troublesome to make that occur.
Rahm stated it remained a “tricky” state of affairs and a “game of waiting,” however felt that punishment for the defectors ought to be thought-about.
“I do believe that some punishment should be in order,” Rahm stated. “But I don’t know what — I’m not a politician. That’s not my job. That’s for the disciplinary board and other people that are paid to do that. My job is to hit the golf ball and try to do the best I can.”
Rahm, the world No. 3 who leads the tour with 4 wins this season, got here to Royal Liverpool off a break after lacking the minimize on the Travelers Championship practically a month in the past. He acknowledged he hasn’t performed as constant as he may need wished not too long ago, however the break was already deliberate prematurely.
“When we did the schedule early in the year we did purposefully add this three-week break,” he stated. “Kind of needed to have a little bit of time to rest. And because of the schedule we had this year I haven’t been able to have as much as I would have liked. It was nice to be at home and be Dad for a change without having to think of golf for a few weeks.”
Rahm gained his second profession main on the Masters, then completed tied for fiftieth on the PGA Championship and tied for tenth on the U.S. Open. Victory at Hoylake would put him alongside Ballesteros as the one Spaniards to win the Open. Ballesteros gained in 1979, 1984 and 1988.
“To be the first one to win an Open since Seve for Spain would be quite special,” Rahm stated. “It’s amazing to me that some of the great golfers we’ve had haven’t been able to do it, and they’ve been close. It would be a true honor to get there, to get to three majors, to be the second on the Spanish list.”