LIV Golf’s Jon Rahm hoping for a option to play in PGA Tour occasions

LAS VEGAS — Jon Rahm on Tuesday lamented lacking out on current PGA Tour occasions at Torrey Pines and Palm Springs, however he’s hopeful that he can compete in these occasions down the highway and does not remorse his resolution to leap to the LIV Golf League.

“I am hoping that within the close to future I might be again taking part in a few of these occasions,” Rahm informed reporters Tuesday at Las Vegas Nation Membership, the location of this week’s LIV Golf occasion. “I would definitely love to return and play a few of them.

“If there’s ever a means again and a means the place we will play, even when it is as an invitation, I’ll take it. There’s sure occasions which can be particular to me that I’d nonetheless like to help.”

Rahm’s first PGA Tour win in 2017 was at Torrey Pines, which can also be the place he gained his first main, the U.S. Open, in 2021.

He was banned from competing in these PGA occasions as soon as he jumped ship, however he’s hopeful issues might change, particularly if the PGA merges with LIV Golf, which has been speculated upon as negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund proceed.

“It was quite a bit tougher to be at dwelling not competing and know that these occasions had been happening,” Rahm stated. “Palm Springs and Torrey, these weeks had been laborious. I’ve defined so many instances how essential Torrey is for me.”

Because the No. 3 participant on the earth and the highest box-office draw for LIV Golf, Rahm reportedly acquired greater than $300 million to affix the circuit. This week, nevertheless, he’s lacking the WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale, just some miles from his dwelling.

“Driving by Phoenix as usually as I needed to and figuring out that I wasn’t going to play there, it is undoubtedly emotional,” Rahm stated. “That is one of many issues that I will miss.”

Recollections apart, Rahm is concentrated on his second LIV Golf occasion — and his first on U.S. soil.

“I am not sometimes an individual that is going to remorse any selections,” Rahm stated. “I made as educated a call as I might with the complete help of the individuals round me, and [I’m] assured that it was the correct factor for me. So I am not going to remorse it.”

Rahm stated he totally loved his first LIV Golf occasion final week at Mayakoba in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, His workforce, Legion XIII, picked up the workforce victory, whereas individually he completed in a tie for third.

“It is undoubtedly completely different,” Rahm stated. “For individuals watching, the environment, the music, it is completely different, however I believe it is very entertaining. It provides the gang a stage of engagement that I wasn’t anticipating. All people appeared actually into the music and into the golf, and it was actually enjoyable to play earlier than a crowd that was having fun with it a lot.”

Subject Stage Media contributed to this report.