‘No sense in dwelling on it’: Jon Rahm reflects on LIV decision ahead of PGA Championship

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Jon Rahm reflects on his decision to join LIV Golf ahead of the PGA Championship, emphasizing the need to move forward after a disappointing Masters performance. He discusses the evolving dynamics between LIV and the PGA Tour.

Key points

Jon Rahm reflects on his LIV Golf decision
He had a disappointing week at the Masters
Rahm aims to bounce back at the PGA Championship
LIV Golf's status is declining compared to the PGA Tour
Rahm finished T-8 at last year's PGA Championship

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‘No sense in dwelling on it’: Jon Rahm reflects on LIV decision ahead of PGA Championship

To say Jon Rahm had a disappointing week at the Masters may be putting it lightly. There's probably plenty of motivation to bounce back this week at the PGA Championship, where Rahm finished T-8 last year but at one point was challenging eventual winner Scottie Scheffler for the lead.

However, at his Tuesday press conference ahead of his 10th PGA Championship start, much of the discussion wasn't on Rahm's game but the circumstances he has dealt with in recent weeks alongside other LIV Golf players.

When Rahm signed with LIV, many thought that would be the signing that brought the PGA Tour to make a deal with the breakaway circuit. The two tours were seemingly at the alter early last year before going their separate ways. Now, LIV seems as if it's on hospice care while the PGA Tour is moving ahead.

For players like Rahm, who was the league's biggest signing and remains its best player, the question arose about how surprised he was about the way things have gone in recent weeks and whether he would've done anything different with his decision had he known what he does now.

"I was never like thinking that I was going to be any sort of weight that would tip the scales to make things come together. That was never an argument in my mind," Rahm said. "When asked if that was the case for people to come together, that would be great. I never made a decision based on that.

"Now, I would also say I've made a lot of decisions in my life, and I've never gone back thinking, Oh, had I known this again, I would do X and Y different. I could do that about 15 different golf shots on the golf course every single day. If I lived my life like that as a golfer, I would be a very pessimistic person. So we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, and all we can do is learn from things that happen in the past good and bad. Just to speculate on what could have done, what could have been different doesn't really make much sense."

Rahm has remained mum on what he would do if LIV ceased to exist after 2026. Last week, he revealed he solved his kerfuffle with the DP World Tour while also saying he doesn't know whether he can get out of his LIV contract.