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Jon Rahm Supporting a Union of Pro Golf Worlds for Top Players to Compete With Each Other

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After leaving the PGA Tour for LIV Golf in December, Jon Rahm has talked about his pre-2024 golf life quite a bit and hopes that the best from each circuit will be able to meet more than four times each year.

At a pre-Masters press conference this week, the defending champion at Augusta said there’s more importance on the majors now because it will be the tournaments with the highest percentage of the world’s top players involved.


Speaking about the meeting that player executives from PGA Tour Enterprises had with Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund governor Yassir al-Rumayyan, Rahm expressed hope that an agreement will be made.

Rahm said during a video press conference for next month’s Masters:

“I think there’s a way of coexisting, and if there’s some type of union, I don’t know what that looks like, but I just want to be able to see the best in the world compete against the best in the world, whatever that looks like“.  think there’s room for all of us and there’s room for the game of golf to get to the next level and have more viewership options.”

Since joining LIV Golf, Rahm hasn’t been critical of his former home like others on the new circuit. Rahm said that he missed defending his title at Riviera last month and also was sad to not be able to play in the WM Phoenix Open. Rahm and other LIV Golf members are indefinitely suspended from PGA Tour play.

The Spaniard used the analogy of European soccer to describe how the future of the pro men’s golf game could look.

Rahm said:

“When it comes to football, for example, or soccer, you have the Premier League, you have the Spanish League, you have the Bundesliga, Serie A, you have the French league, and also on top of that you have the main two European events, right, the Champions League and the Europa Cup, and everybody watches all of those no matter what team they support.”

Players from the PGA Tour and LIV will be competing in next month’s Masters for the first time since The Open Championship last July.

Cover Image via Golf Digest

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Chris has worked in sports journalism for nearly 20 years and also loves the game of golf, even though it often doesn't love him back. Year-round golf is a perk of living in Florida, where Chris moved from his native New York shortly after graduating from college. Chris has played some famous courses in the state, including Bay Hill in Orlando and Innisbrook in the Tampa Bay area, and next on his to-do list is the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass to take a crack at the famous island hole.

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