For almost two years, PGA Tour players and LIV Golf stars have, with the exception of Brooks Koepka at the Ryder Cup, been restricted to the four Majors for the chance to play against each other.
That’s despite protracted negotiations between the PGA Tour and Saudi Public Investment Fund behind LIV Golf on a way for the two organizations to coexist in the future.
Against that backdrop, one of 16 LIV golfers appearing at the PGA Championship, Jon Rahm, appeared in a pre-tournament press conference on Tuesday, and suggested that he doesn’t see himself as a PGA Tour outsider looking in, despite his suspension from it after his big-money move in December.
Rahm said: “See, you guys keep saying ‘the other side,’ but I’m still a PGA Tour member, whether suspended or not. I still want to support the PGA Tour. And I think that’s an important distinction to make. I don’t feel like I’m on the other side.”
While some may have interpreted that as a peace offering, the comments haven’t gone down well with former PGA Tour pro and Golf Channel analyst Aaron Oberholser. Appearing on the Golf Channel in the aftermath of Rahm’s appearance in front of the media, he insisted the Spaniard doesn’t understand why the fractures at the top of the men’s game are proving so hard to heal.
He began: “He doesn’t get it. To this day, he doesn’t get it. This is a guy who wanted a position, or wanted to be heard from what I understand. Either a board position… policy board. He wanted to be heard on this whole thing before he went to LIV and I feel like it wasn’t as heard as much as you probably should have been, and now I’m glad he wasn’t in that position because he doesn’t get it.”
Jon Rahm’s comments at a pre-tournament press conference were not well-received by the analyst
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The 2006 Pebble Beach Pro-Am wasn’t finished there… far from it, and continued: “As a PGA Tour player, and as a PGA Tour member – still a card-carrying PGA Tour member and someone who supports the PGA Tour, not happy with what’s going on right now, obviously, but supports the PGA Tour, I’m incensed by that, quite honestly. You still don’t get it.”
here’s oberholser wanting to wring @JonRahmOfficial ‘s neck. seemed like jr was trying to be nice, willing…
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