Jon Rahm won’t promise LIV Golf a 2027 return as funding questions, an $80 million payday and a possible PGA Tour escape cloud the league’s future.
Jon Rahm’s LIV Golf future has become one of the biggest stories in professional golf, and the former Masters champion didn’t exactly calm the speculation this week.
Asked whether he expects to compete on LIV Golf in 2027, Rahm offered no commitment. His words were cautious. His shrug may have said more.
“We’re in contact with them,” Rahm said. “We know a lot of what’s going on. Not that I can share with you guys right now.”
Translation? Something is happening, Rahm knows more than he’s willing to reveal, and nobody should start printing his 2027 schedule yet.
LIV Golf is reaching a critical point with only two individual tournaments and the team championship remaining in 2026.
Questions surrounding future financing from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund are now hanging over every major player, contract and franchise.
Bryson DeChambeau could become a free agent after the season. Rahm’s deal reportedly extends through 2027, but a contract is only comforting when the organization behind it can fund the obligation.
Rahm is reportedly owed nearly $80 million next year.
That gives him more leverage than nearly anyone else in the league.
Should LIV secure new funding, Rahm can remain in place and collect another enormous payday. Should the circuit struggle to honor its agreement, he could negotiate an exit and explore a return to the PGA Tour.
That possibility became more believable after Brooks Koepka worked out his own path back. Rahm would still bring plenty of value despite an uneven major season that included just one top-10 finish, a runner-up result at the PGA Championship.
He remains a proven major winner, an international star and a player capable of contending whenever his game clicks.
LIV’s problems became even harder to ignore when the Asian Tour announced a new relationship with the DP World Tour and PGA Tour.
The Asian Tour had provided LIV with both a developmental pathway and additional playing opportunities. Losing that connection removes another piece of the league’s long-term structure.
Rahm isn’t panicking publicly.
“I’m always optimistic,” he said. “I mean, I play a game for a living. I can’t really be too upset about how things are going in life.”
That relaxed approach makes sense. Rahm may be the one LIV golfer without a truly bad option.
He can stay and get paid, or he can leave and become one of the most valuable free agents golf has ever seen.
For now, he’s saying almost nothing. That silence is getting louder by the week.
