Who’s subsequent?
That’s the one query floating by golf circles after Jon Rahm’s bombshell transfer to LIV Golf on Thursday night time.
It’s anticipated that Rahm’s four-player LIV Golf staff shall be stuffed out with gamers at the moment on the PGA Tour.
Golf Digest reported that it would transcend that with sources telling the location “Rahm won’t simply get his personal staff, however that LIV may create one other membership to accommodate a possible exodus from the PGA and DP World Excursions.”
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Rahm’s defection had been speculated for weeks, however who will comply with him is a bit muddled.
Spanish website Ten Golf speculated that Tony Finau and Tyrrell Hatton could be prospects to comply with Rahm to the insurgent league.
The Telegraph reported that Jason Day and Adrian Meronk may defect earlier this week, although each denied it.
“It’s nonetheless not for me,” Day instructed reporters on Wednesday. “I do know there’s rumours about me going. They’re completely false. I don’t know the place these rumours begin… I haven’t had any connection to LIV.”
Meronk’s response got here within the type of posting his PGA Tour and DP World Tour playing cards on Instagram.
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“I feel when guys get thrown cash at them, everybody’s bought a quantity in the long run,” Day mentioned earlier than Rahm’s transfer was official.
“I hope he makes the correct resolution by him and his household. It doesn’t matter to me. If he leaves, it makes my job simpler as a result of I don’t must compete in opposition to him. I need him to be completely satisfied. That’s all that issues in the long run.”
Rahm’s splashy transfer comes with talks between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund — the group that monetarily helps LIV Golf — restarting subsequent week after a framework of a deal was agreed to in June.
A report from Barstool’s Dan Rapaport described the PGA Tour in “chaos” with gamers divided on whether or not to just accept Saudi cash or go together with a unique investor.
The deadline for an settlement between PIF and the PGA Tour is Dec. 31.
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