One well-known coach thinks Jon Rahm should accept the enormous financial offer and enter the breakaway series since he may be the next big name to depart the PGA Tour for LIV Golf.
Tiger Woods’ former coach Hank Haney believes Jon Rahm should take the alleged offer made by LIV Golf if the reported £475 million signing-on fee is true.
Rahm became the latest big-name player to be linked to the LIV setup, with Bunkered reporting that the Spaniard was in negotiation with the breakaway league. Numerous reports later suggested that a near-£500 million was put in front of Rahm in a bid to lure him to the Saudi-funded series.
There is no doubt the Masters champion would be a huge loss for the PGA Tour, but Woods’ former ally Haney believes that the alleged signing fee is too good to turn down.
Taking to Twitter, he wrote: “If that deal is on the table and Jon Rahm doesn’t take it he is totally out of his mind.” While Rahm has stayed somewhat neutral in the civil war between the PGA Tour and LIV, it would still come as a huge surprise too many if he was to make the switch.
The Spaniard has discussed the breakaway league on a number of occasions, and batted down any chance of signing on the dotted line with Greg Norman and co as recently as August. He told the Golf Sin Etiquetas podcast: “I laugh when people rumour me with LIV Golf.
“I never liked the format. And I always have a good time with Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia in the practice rounds of majors. Phil [Mickelson] respects my decision, and I respect his [choice]. Mickelson has told me that I have no reason to go play for LIV, and he has told me that multiple times.”
Even with a reported £475m on offer, if Rahm’s previous comments were anything to go by, then even the finances will not tempt the green jacket winner into making the switch. “If you play good, you’re going to end up making money and be able to take care of yourself,” the Spaniard said per Golf Channel last December. “It’s not why I started playing, it’s not the reason why I play.
“So when I’m doing my schedule, when I’m practicing and I’m getting my things done, money is not really on my mind. If it was, I probably might have gone to LIV, right? If money is your goal, that’s clearly the path to go down. Every decision I make when it comes to golf is to become the best player I can become.”
On the rear of Rahm’s supposed proposition, Fire Pit Aggregate’s Alan Shipnuck announced that LIV banner kid – and companion of Rahm – Phil Mickelson had been telling individuals high up in the game that the Spaniard’s arrangement was at that point finished. Mickelson anyway rushed to make light of any contribution, and rushed to reprimand Shipnuck, who had assembled the American’s history a year sooner.
Answering the report that head affirmed Rahm’s arrangement to the Saudi-supported series was finished, he tweeted: “This isn’t accurate and I know nothing. I would rather know nothing and I haven’t uttered a word. Alan is the most exceedingly terrible liar and a despicable human.”
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