As Ryder Cup questions loom, Jon Rahm enters a crucial stage of his career
Jon Rahm's Ryder Cup future remains in doubt as he returns to Augusta National.
Jon Rahm is in the prime of his career. Can he capture another green jacket? (Andrew Redington/Getty Images) Andrew Redington via Getty Images AUGUSTA, Ga.
— Jon Rahm is thoughtful and deliberate. Jon Rahm is also fiery and prideful. He contains multitudes, and those multitudes right now are keeping him connected with LIV Golf, keeping his 2027 Ryder Cup status in limbo … and setting himself up for the most consequential major year of his career to date.
Rahm has spent the last two-plus years dominating LIV Golf. After jumping to the Saudi-backed breakaway tour in 2023, he won player of the year his first two years in the league, he’s finished outside the top 10 only once — carding a T11 — and he currently leads the league yet again this season. Clearly, the level of competition on the LIV Tour is not quite to the level of the PGA Tour … and yet, Rahm remains committed to LIV.
He has declined — perhaps pridefully, perhaps contractually — to follow the lead of Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed back to the PGA Tour. The DP World Tour? Well, that’s another matter.