PGA Tour left feeling effect of Jon Rahm’s absence after £450 million LIV Golf switch

Jon Rahm was delegated American Express hero in 2023, yet after the PGA Visit selected to boycott the Spaniard for joining LIV Golf, there will be no reigning champ at the current year’s occasion

A PGA Visit occasion will go on without its reigning champ for the second time in three weeks, with Jon Rahm missing from the American Express in California.

Rahm got the AmEx title in 2023, shooting 27-under-standard across his four rounds a year prior to overcome Davis Thompson by a single shot. Sadly for Rahm and the tournament’s organizers, however, the Spaniard will not be able to defend his title this week because he has joined LIV Golf.

The Experts champion turned out to be ostensibly LIV’s greatest upset at this point, and was compensated with a record-breaking agreement worth a revealed £450 million.

His super cash bargain included some major disadvantages however, as he continued in the strides of any semblance of Phil Mickelson, Creeks Koepka and Dustin Johnson in being suspended by the PGA Visit. This is the second time this month that Rahm has been not able to shield one of his titles.

Fourteen days before his success finally year’s AmEx, Rahm likewise won in the 2023 season opener at The Guard Competition of Champions, completing two shots clear of second spot Collin Morikawa after a last cycle 10-under 63. To the surprise of no one, the Visit started off its season at the Hawaii-best occasion recently.

Be that as it may, similar to this week were without their reigning champ in Rahm. Soon after on from his rewarding switch in December, Rahm’s suspension from the PGA Visit was affirmed in an update shipped off players having framed a relationship with ‘unapproved competitions’.

“As per the PGA Visit Competition Guidelines,” the assertion read. ” Jon Rahm has been told that he is suspended and presently not qualified to take part in PGA Visit competition play because of his relationship with a progression of unapproved competitions.”

Rahm claimed that he still hoped to play on both the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour, as well as the LIV setup, at some point after his move. He remarked: ” I would like to keep up with my PGA Visit and DP World Visit status. I won’t give up on that.

“Ideally with the opportunity LIV gives me I can play both those visits. There are sure PGA Visit occasions I need to play as long as my timetable permits. I want to make that happen as soon as possible. Rahm likely could be fortunate in the not so distant future, with the PGA Visit proceeding with discussions with the Public Venture Asset of Saudi Arabia (PIF) which is set to permit a pathway back for the people who have taken the action to the breakaway association.