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LIV Golf has a just about limitless sum of money at its disposal, and its enterprise mannequin has largely revolved round dipping into Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund to lure in gamers with completely large baggage of money. Nonetheless, it seems there’s a restrict to how a lot they’re keen to spend primarily based on new data relating to Jon Rahm.
When you think about LIV Golf reportedly provided Tiger Woods near a billion {dollars} to affix the league, it’s fairly clear cash is just about no object in the case of its quest to safe the abilities of the most effective gamers on the planet.
It’s protected to say Jon Rahm matches that description, because the 28-year-old Spaniard presently occupies the third spot within the Official World Golf Rankings and secured the primary inexperienced jacket of his profession at The Masters earlier this 12 months.
He’s beforehand stated he doesn’t actually see the attraction of the group that’s tentatively set to merge with the PGA Tour, however he additionally doesn’t appear to be essentially offended by the sheer existence of the circuit (versus Rory McIlroy and lots of different vocal critics within the golf world).
That group of detractors definitely consists of Eddie Pepperell, who’s repeatedly gone out of his technique to fireplace photographs in LIV’s route over the previous couple of years.
Throughout a current episode of The Chipping Forecast, the Englishman dropped an intriguing piece of knowledge that made its method by means of the golf grapevine whereas discussing the group’s efforts to proceed to focus on notable names, saying:
“I heard that LIV had approached 15 gamers this 12 months asking them for a tough determine as to what would get them throughout and I used to be advised that Rahm’s determine was so prohibitively giant that LIV rejected it.
So, make of that what you need.”
Rahm racked up greater than $20 million in earnings over the course of 2023, and when you think about Phil Mickelson reportedly acquired $200 million to defect, it’s not a stretch to imagine Rahm’s request was north of that quantity.
It’s protected to imagine Rahm floated a quantity he basically knew LIV Golf wouldn’t settle for, and whereas it’s nonetheless type of onerous to think about there’s any sum they’d balk at, it seems he managed to seek out it.
