A report last year claimed that former world No. 1 Jon Rahm wanted to make a return to the PGA Tour, but his LIV Golf teammate Tyrrell Hatton has shut down the rumours
A report last year claimed that former world No. 1 Jon Rahm wanted to make a return to the PGA Tour, but his LIV Golf teammate Tyrrell Hatton has shut down the rumours A report last year claimed that former world No. 1 Jon Rahm wanted to make a return to the PGA Tour, but his LIV Golf teammate Tyrrell Hatton has shut down the rumours
Tyrrell Hatton has rubbished the report that his LIV Golf teammate Jon Rahm regrets his move and wants to make a return to the PGA Tour, labelling the rumour ‘bulls***’.
Hatton followed in the footsteps of Rahm just over 11 months ago, giving up his playing rights on the PGA Tour to join the LIV setup and Legion XIII. The Englishman’s move came just weeks after Rahm became arguably the breakaway league’s biggest signing, signing a deal worth a reported £450 million.
There had been hopes among many in professional golf that the move of Rahm to the Saudi-backed league would help accelerate talks over a peace deal between the PGA Tour and LIV bosses.
Over a year on from his switch though, an agreement is yet to be signed off, with negotiations continuing. Amid the lack of progress, a report from Golf Digest last August revealed that an unnamed pro had claimed that Rahm regretted his decision to join LIV.
They commented: “I am 100 percent positive that if Jon could give the money back to the Saudis and come back to the tour, he couldn’t write the check fast enough.” One man who knows Rahm better than most is his teammate Hatton, and the former PGA Tour star was quick to play down any truth behind the comments.
“Forgive me saying this but that is just media bull****,” Hatton told the Daily Mail. “People showed me some of the stuff that was written, but from being around Jon that’s never even been a thought process that crossed my mind.
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“He’s really enjoyed it and he has certainly played some pretty good golf.” As alluded to by Hatton, Rahm enjoyed a successful start to his life out on the breakaway circuit, winning twice in the UK and Chicago, before going on to be crowned the league’s individual champion for 2024.
On the back of his alleged yearn for a PGA Tour comeback, Rahm too refuted the claims. “There’s zero validity to what any of that said. I don’t know where it came from,” Rahm told the New York Post at the time. “I don’t know why they feel the need to say that some of us are unhappy when we’re not.
“It’s one of the things that frustrates me a little bit, the fact that they can claim that there’s a source and there’s zero truth to it.” Rahm’s title defence will begin in February, when the 2025 LIV season gets underway in Riyadh. Before then though, the Spanish star’s attention will turn to the DP World Tour having committed to compete in this month’s Dubai Desert Classic alongside the like of Hatton, Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood.
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