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What would Jon Rahm PGA win mean for LIV? He wishes to tell you Sunday

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What would a Jon Rahm win at the PGA Championship mean for LIV Golf?

Jon Rahm hits out of a bunker on Saturday on the 16th hole at Aronimink Golf Club. Getty Images Jon Rahm, whose PGA Championship week began with LIV Golf questions and answers, may see it end with a LIV Q&A. But not before.

Rahm wished for that late Saturday afternoon at Aronimink Golf Club just outside of Philly, where he’d just shot a three-under 67 that left him in a five-way tie for second and two strokes back of leader Alex Smalley. The LIV questions, of course, are inevitable, after Rahm joined the circuit late in 2023, then has recently seen it both lose the backing of its primary investor, the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, and search for new money. And queries came Tuesday, in Rahm’s pre-tournament presser.

Five in all. Would Rahm have done anything differently in deciding to leave the PGA Tour to sign a large-dollar deal with LIV? No, Rahm said, all he could do was learn.

The reporter then wanted to confirm that, indeed, Rahm doesn’t look back. “Well, we all go back,” he said. “We all think what could have been and what couldn’t have been.