{"id":301738,"date":"2023-12-07T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=301738"},"modified":"2023-12-07T21:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T21:24:09","slug":"clip-of-jon-rahm-insisting-his-heart-is-with-the-pga-tour-resurfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/golf\/clip-of-jon-rahm-insisting-his-heart-is-with-the-pga-tour-resurfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Clip of Jon Rahm insisting his &apos;heart is with the PGA Tour&apos; resurfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Clip of Jon Rahm insisting his &#8216;heart is with the PGA Tour&#8217; resurfaces as the Masters champion jumps ship to LIV Golf after inking\u00a0eye-watering deal worth &#8216;upwards of $570MILLION&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Spaniard shut down suggestions he could join at the US Open in 2022<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>READ MORE:\u00a0Jon Rahm officially jumps ship from the PGA Tour to join LIV Golf<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A clip of Jon Rahm insisting that he would not abandon the PGA Tour for a nine-figure sum has resurfaced amid reports the Spaniard has done exactly today.<\/p>\n<p>The Masters champion has become the rebel circuit&#8217;s greatest coup with The Telegraph reporting that he has inked a deal worth $570 million to jump ship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, at one point in time the idea of the 28-year-old bolting from the PGA Tour seemed unfathomable with Rahm adamant that he would remain loyal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rahm insisted that his heart was with the PGA Tour during a press conference at the US Open in June 2022 and, as an announcement confirming his signing expected imminently, a video of his comments have gone viral on social media once again.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Shot gun, three days to me is not a golf tournament, no cut,&#8217; the two-time major winner said, referring to LIV&#8217;s 54-hole format.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/07\/20\/78708513-12839037-image-a-45_1701979978525.jpg\" height=\"470\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A clip of Jon Rahm insisting that he would not join LIV Golf has resurfaced this week<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/07\/20\/78708517-12839037-image-a-46_1701979983381.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard previously pledged fealty to the PGA Tour (pictured, commissioner Jay Monahan)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/07\/20\/78624829-12839037-Jon_Rahm_has_officially_jumped_ship_from_the_PGA_Tour_to_LIV_Gol-a-47_1701979998929.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rahm has officially jumped ship from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf, according to reports\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I wanna play against the best in the world in a format that&#8217;s been going on for hundreds of years. Would my lifestyle change if I got $400million? Not one bit,&#8217; he added, hinting he had been offered and turned down a lucrative deal from Greg Norman and his band of merry men.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Truth be told I could retire right now with what I&#8217;ve made and live a very happy life and never play golf again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So I&#8217;ve never really played the game of golf for monetary reasons. I play for the love of the game, and I want to play against the best in the world. I&#8217;ve always been interested in history and legacy, and right now the PGA Tour has that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s meaning when you win the Memorial Championship. There&#8217;s meaning when you win Arnold Palmer&#8217;s event at Bay Hill. There&#8217;s a meaning when you win, LA, Torrey, some of the historic venues. That to me matters a lot, right. After winning this past US Open, only me and Tiger have won at Torrey Pines, and it&#8217;s a golf course that we like, making putts on the 18th hole. That&#8217;s a memory I&#8217;m going to have forever that not many people can say. My heart is with the PGA Tour. That&#8217;s all I can say.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>However, Rahm did admit that he could\u00a0understand some of the arguments other players had put forward for LIV&#8217;s appeal.<\/p>\n<p>But the US Open wasn&#8217;t the first nor only time, Rahm had voiced his fealty to the PGA Tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I wanted to take this time to say that this is my official, my one and only time to talk about this, where I am officially declaring my fealty to the PGA Tour,&#8217; Rahm said ahead of the 2022 Genesis Invitational as talk of LIV Golf launching picked up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m a PAC [Player Advisory Council] member and I have a lot of belief in Jay Monahan and the product.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/07\/20\/78708169-12839037-PIF_governor_Yasir_Al_Rumayyan-a-48_1701980007805.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/07\/20\/78708191-12839037-LIV_Golf_CEO_Greg_Norman-a-49_1701980007815.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0marks a huge coup for the Saudi-backed breakaway (Pictured left, PIF\u00a0governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, and right,\u00a0LIV Golf CEO, Greg Norman)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s been a lot of talk and speculation on the Saudi league and it&#8217;s just not something that I believe is best for me and my future in golf and I think the best legacy I can accomplish is on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Everybody&#8217;s free to make their own choice, it&#8217;s as simple as that. All I can say is from somebody young like myself who has his entire future ahead of him, it doesn&#8217;t seem like a smart thing. Again, the only appeal I see is monetary, right? So like I said just earlier on, I think there&#8217;s a lot more to be able to play for besides just money on the PGA Tour. There&#8217;s history, there&#8217;s legacy. At the end of the day, I&#8217;m in this to win tournaments, I&#8217;m in this to play against the best in the world.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Yet, six months after the US Open\u00a0Tour commissioner Jay Monahan&#8217;s bombshell U-turn to declare an alliance with Saudi Arabia&#8217;s PIF, LIV&#8217;s backers, Rahm has performed an about-face of his own.<\/p>\n<p>However, the move hasn&#8217;t come as that big a shock with telling signs hinting at a possible defection over the past couple of months, including pulling out of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy&#8217;s TGL venture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, unlike in the past, Rahm had remained silent on the rumors, instead of publicly shutting them down, which only increased speculation that he was preparing for a PGA Tour exit.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/article-12839037\/Clip-Jon-Rahm-PGA-Tour-LIV-Golf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clip of Jon Rahm insisting his &#8216;heart is with the PGA Tour&#8217; 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