Jon Rahm once fought Scottie Scheffler for No. 1 in the world. A move to LIV Golf changed that
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler made a Sunday charge that came too late at the PGA Championship, a 65 that wasn't enough to catch Brooks Koepka at Oak Hill . The runner-up finish came with a small consolation prize for Scheffler: He replaced Jon Rahm at No.
1 in the world. Scheffler has been there ever since. As for Rahm?
He can only wonder which direction his career would have gone had he not bolted from the PGA Tour at the end of 2023 to take the Saudi riches of LIV Golf. He firmly dismissed the notion Tuesday that his departure — six months after the PGA Tour tried to strike a deal with the Saudis — was an attempt to force the two circuits to unite. “I was never thinking that I was going to be any sort of weight that would tip the scales to make things come together," Rahm said.
“That was never an argument in my mind. ” The Spaniard prefers not to look back — not at any shot or any round that cost him a chance to win any tournament. And certainly not a decision that is starting to look worse by the day as LIV's future no longer includes financial backing from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund .
“I've made a lot of decisions in my life, and I've never gone back thinking, ‘Oh, had I know this again, I would do ’x' and ‘y’ different. I could do that about 15 different golf shots on the golf course every single day," Rahm said. "If I lived my life like that as a golfer, I would be a very pessimistic person.
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