Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau are LIV Golf’s two biggest stars, bar none.
However, with the future of LIV Golf completely up in the air right now, neither Rahm nor DeChambeau actually know where they will be playing next year.
Back in April, it was claimed that the LIV Golf league could fold, after Saudi Arabia’s PIF announced that they would be withdrawing their funding from the project.
As a result, the futures of players like Rahm and DeChambeau have been plunged into doubt.
DeChambeau and Rahm were actually offered the chance to return to the PGA Tour just after Brooks Koepka made his return following his exit from LIV.
And after Scott O’Neil’s comments this week, there are now more questions than answers.
Concerning LIV Golf rumors begin to spread
As things stand, there is no guarantee that any of the remaining LIV Golf events on the schedule will actually go ahead.
LIV Golf Louisiana has already been cancelled, leaving a huge gap between LIV Golf Andalucia and LIV Golf UK.
David Rumsey from Front Office Sports made an appearance on the Trey Wingo Show, and responded when asked about the current uncertainty surrounding LIV Golf.
“This dates back to leading up to last week’s event in Spain. We knew there was going to be an unintended 47-day break, because they cancelled back in April, their late June New Orleans event, LIV Golf Louisiana. That was a cost saving move with PIF pulling out, that was a shocker at first and then we got used to it,“ Rumsey explained.
“I think now people are starting to realise, whether it’s agents, or people who are at LIV Golf teams or partners are thinking is this money going to be here.
“Are we going to tee it up in the UK? Or at Indianapolis and Michigan? I think if anything they will play the Trump event at Bedminster in early August.
“But we have been hearing a lot of concerns from various stakeholders in and around and connected to LIV Golf.
“We reported on Sunday what we were hearing about the concerns, we did our due diligence, reached out to LIV Golf and they gave us a statement from Scott O’Neil but did not choose to make anyone else on the record for the story.“
Disastrous news for Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau
Having such a long break between LIV events is not great for Rahm and DeChambeau, to say the least.
That means that the last event the Spaniard and the American will have played before The Open at Royal Birkdale in mid-July will have been LIV Golf Andalucia, which finished last week.
That is hardly ideal preparation.
We hear players talk all the time about how important competitive reps are when heading into major championships.
However, by the time Rahm and DeChambeau tee it up at Royal Birkdale on July 16th, they will not have hit a competitive shot for 39 days!
There is no way that either of them will be happy at all about that.
If LIV Golf is to survive moving forward, they absolutely have to restructure the schedule so that their players are competitively sharp heading into the majors.
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