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In the world of golf, money is king. That is perhaps why Jon Rahm, the third-highest-ranked golfer on the PGA Tour, has finally relented and agreed to join the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour in a package reportedly worth over half a billion dollars, according to The Wall Street Journal. “As you can see now it’s official,” the 29-year-old Spaniard told Fox News. “This is me finally saying after all the rumors, some of them were true, and I am officially joining LIV Golf,” he continued. “It’s not an easy decision....

Jon Rahm holds the Masters trophy over his head after winning the golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 9. The obscene sums doled out by the Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund in its quest to lure the world’s top golfers to its LIV Golf tour reached a pinnacle when Jon Rahm joined the league this week. Estimates on what Rahm was paid to jump from the PGA Tour range from $400 million to $600 million, with the Telegraph reporting the most precise number at $566 million, with...

The No. 3 ranked golfer in the world, Jon Rahm, has left the PGA Tour in favor of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf in a deal worth over $300 million. After what seemed to be a truce when the PGA Tour and LIV Golf announced in June that the two entities would merge to “unite” golf, no official deal has been made, and the Saudis have poached their most high-profile golfer yet. “I have asked Congress to let the sides reach an agreement without interference. The offer made to Jon Rahm...

That’s one of the question floating through golf circles after Jon Rahm’s bombshell move to LIV Golf on Thursday night. It is expected that Rahm’s four-player LIV Golf team will be filled out with players currently on the PGA Tour. Golf Digest reported that it might go beyond that with sources telling the site “Rahm might not just get his own team, but that LIV could create another club to accommodate a potential exodus from the PGA and DP World Tours.” Rahm’s defection had been speculated for weeks, but who...

A two-time major champion has left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf. Jon Rahm, the reigning Masters champion, was announced as the newest member of the somewhat controversial Saudi-funded league, which begins play Feb. 2-4 at LIV Golf Mayakoba in Mexico. The move comes after Rahm for years has defended the PGA Tour for its tradition and the place where the legends of the game played and insisted that he already had enough money. He had also been critical of LIV’s format, which includes 54 holes with no cut and...

In perhaps the biggest blow to the PGA Tour, defending Masters champion Jon Rahm announced on Thursday on Fox News Channel that he joined LIV Golf. Rahm had previously been critical of the league, even once saying that $400 million would not change his lifestyle. However, amid rumors that an offer reached $600 million, Rahm is off to the Saudi-funded league. At the time of the decision, Rahm ranked third in the world, behind only Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, the latter of whom has been adamant in his distaste...

Rory McIlroy wasn’t the only PGA Tour star to react to Jon Rahm’s move to LIV Golf on Thursday which sent shockwaves through the golf world. Unlike the acrimony between the two sides a few years ago when LIV golf began, the PGA Tour players understood the decision Rahm made to defect to LIV, but acknowledged that it comes at a tough time because the Tour and the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF) have a deadline of Dec. 31 to finalize their partnership. Rickie Fowler — who is teaming...

Rory McIlroy said the European side will have to "rewrite the rules" for Ryder Cup eligibility after Spain's reigning Masters champion Jon Rahm jumped ship to LIV Golf. Saudi-backed LIV pulled off a coup Thursday when Rahm confirmed weeks of speculation by announcing he was joining the circuit in a deal reportedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia have all been declared ineligible to play for Europe at the Ryder Cup after signing for LIV. World number two McIlroy, a fierce and outspoken...

Rory McIlroy, one of LIV Golf’s loudest critics, said the Ryder Cup eligibility rules will “absolutely” need to be re-written so that Jon Rahm can play in 2025 after his shocking move to LIV Golf. Rahm confirmed the news on Thursday that he was defecting from the PGA for LIV in a deal that could reportedly make him as much as $600 million. The seismic shift in the golf world comes with some massive questions around his eligibility to compete in the next Ryder Cup. Rahm is eligible to compete...

This one hurts the worst. This one cuts to the PGA Tour’s core. When Phil Mickelson jumped to LIV Golf and became the face of the upstart Saudi-backed tour, he was dismissed by the PGA Tour as a greedy contrarian gone rogue, out for whatever was best for Phil Mickelson. When Dustin Johnson went to LIV, he was viewed as aloof and disengaged anyway, never a face of the PGA Tour. When Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau joined LIV, they were both looked upon as lone wolves who were low...