Jon Rahm may not “see many ways out” of his LIV Golf contract, but his comments on Tuesday suggested he doesn’t regret joining the league two years ago.
The Spanish star addressed reporters at Aronimink Golf Club ahead of this week’s PGA Championship, just weeks after news that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund would stop funding LIV at season’s end. Rahm, who joined later than other marquee names by switching allegiances between the 2023 and 2024 seasons while the PGA Tour and LIV were working on a “framework agreement,” said he never believed his reported $300 million-plus deal would “tip the scales” in those now-stalled negotiations.
“Now, I would also say I’ve made a lot of decisions in my life, and I’ve never gone back thinking, ‘Oh, had I known this again, I would do X and Y different,'” Rahm said. “I could do that about 15 different golf shots on the golf course every single day. If I lived my life like that as a golfer, I would be a very pessimistic person.”
He added: “So we don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, and all we can do is learn from things that happen in the past good and bad. Just to speculate on … what could have been different doesn’t really make much sense.”
Rahm, who last week acknowledged he doesn’t “see many ways out” of his contract, clarified that while it’s natural to ponder “what could have been,” he tries not to let such thoughts affect his decisions.
“If you made all the decisions — whatever decision you’ve made or choice is thought through and made for the reasons that you think are proper reasons, there’s no sense in dwelling on it. In fact, you shouldn’t really be unhappy about it. At least there’s nothing that you regret,” he said. “If the terms change afterward, like it’s happened with LIV that things changed a little bit, it’s an afterthought, not a problem from the choice. I would say that elements have changed a little bit. That’s it.”
Those changes with LIV started small, such as moving from 54-hole to 72-hole events this year to gain limited world ranking points for members. Now the larger LIV experiment may end unless the league secures additional revenue streams. A planned June event in New Orleans has already been postponed, possibly to be played after the official season ends.
Shortly after Rory McIlroy suggested outsiders could have seen the PIF decision coming, Rahm reflected on how LIV players followed emerging reports last month while competing in Mexico City.
“It is something we’ve had to deal with, obviously, the week of Mexico and last week a little bit more, but it’s just some things that are out of my control,” Rahm said. “I think I said it last week, out of the few talents I have in my life, fixing a business is not one of them. I might be the worst person for that.”
He continued: “So my job is to play golf, luckily. I’m decent at it. And that’s what I can focus on, right. What I can focus on is the next shot. It’s the people in charge of LIV, whose job I do not envy for a second, not now, not when things are going good because it’s not something I think I can do. It’s their job to fix it.”
For now, Rahm is playing well, with two wins, three
