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Two-time major winner andLIV Golfstar Jon Rahm fired back at the DP World Tour this week, accusing the European sports organization of “extorting” players by forcing them to play additional tournaments and pay fines for not getting releases to play on the competing Saudi-backed golf league.
Last month, the European Tour announced that it had reached a deal with eight LIV Golf pros that would allow them to continue playing on the rival tour without acquiring more fines for playing in events that took place during the same week asDP World Tourevents.
Team Europe’s Jon Rahm hits his tee shot on the No.1 hole during the singles on the final day of competition for the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in Bethpage, New York, on Sept.28, 2025.(Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters via Imagn Images)
Rahm was not one of the eight.
PGA Tourand DP World Tour.Now with LIV Golf being accepted in the world rankings as part of the ecosystem, you could almost say a three-tour member, even though I’m suspended from the PGA Tour.But I’ve always been a dual member.Never once have I been asked for a release to play either one of those tours.We’ve never submitted a release.So why is it now that we need to be offering this and there’s all these penalties?”
He continued, “I just don’t like the situation.I think we should be able to freely play where we want and have the choice to play where we want and not be dictated what we do.Especially myself.I can’t speak for others, only myself.”
Jon Rahm of Spain waits to play on day four of the Open de España presented by Madrid 2025 at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, on Oct.12, 2025.(Alvaro Medranda/Quality Sport Images/Getty Images)
Rahm said the minimum requirement for membership, which is four tournaments, is something he has always done and is committed to continuing.He said in response to the latest request from the European Tour that he would sign if they lowered the requirement to four, which he said they have not agreed to.
“I don’t know what game they’re trying to play right now, but it just seems like in a way they’re using us to — they’re using our impact in tournaments and fining us and trying to benefit both ways from what we have to offer, and it’s just in a way they’re extorting players like myself and young players that have nothing to do with the politics of the game.So I don’t like the situation and I’m not going to agree to that.
“I just refuse to play six events,” he later added.“I don’t want to, and that’s not what the rules say.”
Jon Rahm in action during the first round of play at LIV Golf Riyadh at the Riyadh Golf Club in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Feb.4, 2026.(Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters via Imagn Images)
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Despite the four-tournament minimum to maintain membership, the latest conflict puts Rahm’s participation in the2027 Ryder Cupin jeopardy.
An arbitration panel in Britain, Sports Resolution, ruled in April 2023 that the tour had the right to penalize players as a membership organization.If the panel rules in favor of the tour again, Rahm would be required to settle his fines or lose his membership, which would keep him off the Ryder Cup team next year.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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