LIV Golf’s Dustin Johnson has confirmed he has traded Peter Uihlein for Harold Varner III ahead of the breakaway tour’s third campaign.
Jon Rahm is not the new LIV Golf teammate of Dustin Johnson.
It was confirmed on December 7th that he had exchanged Harold Varner III for Peter Uihlein.
Varner, Talor Gooch, and Thomas Pieters were members of Bubba Watson’s RangeGoats GC team.
However, as a member of the 4Aces, the 33-year-old former professional on the PGA Tour will compete in the third breakaway tour campaign alongside Pat Perez and Patrick Reed.
Perez was at the end of his contract with the rival league having only penned a two-year deal and his future as a professional golfer looked uncertain.
Much like Graeme McDowell, Perez looked like he could’ve been given the cold shoulder but he was given a lifeline.
What’s interesting about this trade is that Gooch, the 2023 LIV individual champion, left the 4 Aces before the second campaign so he could team up with his good buddy Varner.
If you’re not familiar with Varner, he is known for aiming some brutal digs towards rival league players.
Before the 2023 Masters, he famously called out LIV players for being ‘full of s—‘ when some have claimed they joined the Saudi-backed tour to ‘grow the game’.
“They’re growing their pockets,” he said. “I tell them all the time, all of them: ‘You didn’t come here to f—— grow the f—— game.”
Varner had ummed and ahhed over his decision to join LIV but ultimately revealed the offer was too good to turn down.
“The opportunity to join LIV Golf is simply too good of a financial breakthrough to pass by,” he wrote in a lengthy statement.
“I understand growing up without a lot. This cash will guarantee that my child and future Varners will have a strong base to begin on.
!Furthermore, a day to day existence that I could have just envisioned about growing up. It’ll likewise assist with subsidizing a significant number of the projects I’m working with my establishment.
“Your assessment of me might have changed due to this declaration. No falsehood, that will be intense thing to manage.
“However, I haven’t changed – I’m still me. I guarantee you that.”
Varner has caught one individual LIV title in his profession.
That came in May where he held off Branden Effortlessness to guarantee LIV’s occasion in Washington, DC.
Varner put fifth on the 2023 cash list, accumulating $9,125,833 in true award cash. That was one spot higher than his new skipper Johnson who procured $8,739,678.
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