Professional rips reviews about Jon Rahm’s LIV Golf remorse

Jon Rahm is comfortable along with his transfer to LIV Golf, Tyrrell Hatton says. He has no regrets.

As for reviews that counsel in any other case?

“Forgive me saying this, however that’s simply media bull****,” Hatton mentioned. 

His feedback got here in a not too long ago printed story written by the Each day Mail’s Riath Al-Samarrai, whose full article may be discovered by clicking right here. In December of 2023, Rahm left the PGA Tour and joined LIV with a nine-figure deal, and the concept he was sad with the choice gained traction final August after a narrative written by Golf Digest’s Jaime Diaz.

“One veteran Tour insider I spoke with is for certain that Rahm is experiencing deep remorse,” wrote Diaz, whose full story may be discovered by clicking right here. “‘I’m one hundred pc optimistic that if Jon may give the cash again to the Saudis and are available again to the tour, he couldn’t write the examine quick sufficient,’” he says. “‘Now there are solely 4 occasions a yr when he’s enjoying that anyone is remotely . He thought his stature within the recreation was safe irrespective of the place he was enjoying, and it was a nasty miscalculation.’”

About two weeks after Diaz’s story got here out, Rahm denied the remorse declare in an article written by the New York Publish’s Christian Arnold, whose full story may be learn by clicking right here. In 2024, behind two wins in 13 occasions, Rahm was LIV’s particular person champion, whereas on the majors, he tied for fifth on the Masters, missed the reduce on the PGA Championship, withdrew from the U.S. Open on account of a foot harm and tied for seventh on the Open Championship. 

“There’s zero validity to what any of that mentioned,” Rahm instructed the New York Publish. “I don’t know the place it got here from.”

He additionally expressed frustration for observers exterior of LIV Golf attempting to color LIV execs as “sad” with the Saudi-financed circuit.

“I don’t know why they really feel the necessity to say that a few of us are sad once we’re not,” Rahm instructed the New York Publish. “It’s one of many issues that frustrates me a bit bit, the truth that they will declare that there’s a supply and there’s zero reality to it.”

Within the Each day Mail story, Hatton shared related sentiments. Forward of LIV’s season opener final yr, Hatton additionally left the PGA Tour to signal with LIV, becoming a member of Rahm’s staff. 

“Folks confirmed me among the stuff that was written, however from being round Jon, that’s by no means even been a thought course of that crossed my thoughts,” Hatton instructed the Each day Mail. 

“‘He’s actually loved it and he has actually performed some fairly good golf.”