When Jon Rahm decided to bolt to the LIV Golf, it wasn’t a shock to many. It had been rumored that Rahm was planning to leave the PGA Tour and he finally did.
When he left, the PGA Tour suspended him as an active golfer, but did not cancel his membership.
Rahm, along with several former PGA Tour golfers, will be at the PGA Championship this weekend at Valhalla. But when asked about leaving the tour for LIV Golf, Rahm gave a strange answer.
“I’m not going to lie; for everybody who said this would be easy, some things have been, but not being able to defend some titles that mean a lot to me hasn’t,” Rahm said earlier this year. “I love Palm Springs. I’ve been able to win twice there. Riviera is about as charismatic of a golf course as we have. It’s definitely a week that it’s fantastic for a lot of us, and it’s a fan and player favorite. Not being there was difficult. I still watched the broadcast. I still watch golf because I love watching it. But it’s hard.”
Rahm may not have given up his PGA membership, but the PGA has suspended him from all PGA Tour-related activities and his name has been erased or scrubbed from several PGA Tour-sanctioned entities, including the tour’s career money earnings list.
About Stacey Mickles
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