Jon Rahm says Tiger Woods still hasn’t reached out after two-time major winner left PGA Tour for LIV Golf
Jon Rahm said he hasn’t heard from two-time major champion Tiger Woods since he left the PGA Tour and moved to LIV Golf.
Jon Rahm still has a friend in Rory McIlroy, who accepted Rahm’s move from the PGA Tour to LIV Golf both publicly and privately. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, was not well received. Rahm said that after he left the tour, he approached Tiger about signing a major golf contract with LIV, estimated to be worth nine figures, but never heard back from the 15-time champion.
“Rory has been as supportive of my decisions publicly as he has been privately. “Tiger is not like that,” Rahm, a two-time major champion, told ESPN. “I wrote to him and the people who tried to contact me throughout the process when I signed the contract and just told them that.” “Well, that’s a personal decision.” I have nothing against anyone. ”
Rahm originally pledged “allegiance” to the PGA Tour in February 2022, but the master agreement between the PGA Tour and LIV (not to mention the cost of leaving the tour and transferring to LIV Golf) changed the policy. stated that it had been changed. He thought of a solution.
He said: “As an athlete and an artist, I feel I have a responsibility to listen to others, and I have done so. …I have the right to do what I think is best for me and my family. As a father and a husband, it is my responsibility to be as prepared as possible. It’s not that we’re not, we’re a very privileged people, but it’s my duty.
Throughout the process, Tiger criticized those who left LIV Golf. He recently became director of play on the PGA Tour, but during the Genesis Invitational, the tour said the tour was trying to determine how LIV golfers would return to the tour, and Rahm (DP (in addition to) said he was interested in it. ). ).
“We’re looking at different models for return routes,” Woods said. “What that will look like, how it will affect the players who stay and the players who don’t leave, and how we will improve our product in the future, we’re not answering that question at this point. No, we are considering… We have varying degrees of ideas, and we don’t know how they will turn out in the short term. We don’t know how this will play out in the long term. Trust me, I get emails and conversations every day or week about this and what the next tour is going to be.
Rahm and Woods are two of the last five Masters winners and two of 18 golfers to win the Masters and the U.S. Open.
