Jon Rahm opens up on ’emotional’ PGA Tour snub after making LIV Golf debut
Jon Rahm has revealed he’ll miss competing at this week’s Waste Management Phoenix Open on the PGA Tour. He will as an alternative be enjoying in his second LIV Golf occasion at Las Vegas Country Club.
The PGA Tour and LIV will as soon as once more go head-to-head this week, with WM Phoenix Open and LIV Las Vegas happening on the identical time, 300 miles aside. Rahm has given up the possibility to play in Phoenix following his transfer to the breakaway league in December.
And regardless of getting the possibility to play in LIV’s first-ever occasion in Sin City, he feels emotional about lacking the motion in Arizona. “Driving by Phoenix as often as I had to and knowing that I wasn’t going to play there, it’s definitely emotional,” he stated.
Phoenix holds a particular place in Rahm’s coronary heart having performed his school golf at Arizona State University. The Spaniard additionally has shut ties to the Farmers Insurance Open too, which passed off on the Tour late final month.
This match, based mostly at Torrey Pines, was the place Rahm gained his first-ever PGA Tour match in 2017, beating fellow LIV star Charles Howell III by three pictures. Looking again at a few of his favorite occasions, Rahm hopes he can return to the PGA Tour sooner or later.
“It was a lot harder to be at home not competing and know that those events were going on,” he stated. “Palm Springs and Torrey, those weeks were hard. I’ve explained so many times how important Torrey is for me. And driving by Phoenix as often as I had to and knowing that I wasn’t going to play there, it’s definitely emotional.”
“That’s one of the things that I’m going to miss. I’m hoping that in the near future, I can be back playing some of those events. I would certainly love to go back and play some of them.” Rahm began his journey with LIV Golf in Mexico final week and practically accomplished a debut double.
After profitable the staff title Legion XIII, he narrowly missed out on the person crown. The Masters champion stood on the seventeenth tee with a share of the lead with two holes to play, however back-to-back bogeys adopted, making certain he missed out on a spot in a playoff with Joaquin Niemann and Sergio Garcia.
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