Jon Rahm has agreed a deal to return to DP World Tour competition, leaving the four-time Ryder Cup player eligible for Team Europe selection for Adare Manor in 2027.
The two-time major-winning Spaniard had previously declined an offer than was extended to nine fellow LIV players – including Legion XIII teammates Tyrrell Hatton and Tom McKibbin – back in March, citing that he believed the six DP World Tour events that he would be required to play in exchange for being granted releases to compete in conflicting LIV events without accruing fines was too much.
With it being recently announced that the Saudi Public Investment Fund was ending it’s funding of LIV Golf at the end of the 2026 season, the league’s future is in doubt and ahead of this week’s LIV Golf Virginia where Rahm is chasing his third victory of the campaign, he revealed that he’d reached an agreement with the DP World Tour.
“There’s no longer a standoff,” he said. “We were able to reach an agreement. There was some concessions on both sides. I offered some; they extended an olive branch. Obviously we’ve reached an agreement. That will not be a stress anymore.”
It was subsequently confirmed by the DP World Tour that they’d settled their differences, that he’d pay his outstanding fines believed to be in the region of $3 million, and that he’d become eligible to compete in regular DP World Tournaments for the remainder of the year.
“The DP World Tour and Jon Rahm have come to an agreement on conditional releases to play in conflicting tournaments on LIV Golf during the remainder of its 2026 season,” a DP World Tour spokesperson said via a statement.
“This involves payment of all outstanding fines accrued from 2024 to date, along with participation in agreed DP World Tour tournaments (outside the Majors) in the remainder of the 2026 season.”
Rahm will be required to play in five DP World Tour events – not including the major championships – and will accrue Race to Dubai Rankings points in any DP World Tour sanctioned events he plays in from this point forwards having missed out on points at the Masters as the issue had not been previously resolved.
What events specifically he’ll play in has not yet been confirmed, but he’s hoping that the Spanish Open will be one of them and he says that, though he was always intent on being eligible for the Ryder Cup team, the removal of any doubt will be a relief.
“I was never worried about that,” he said. “There was some things I believed in that I wanted them to agree with me, and I knew it was a matter of time. I also understand they have their bylaws and their way to go about things and they have to follow certainly procedures, and things are never as easy or as fast as you would think they would be, or at least I would have liked, but I was never worried.
“The Ryder Cup is still really, really far away, but I’m happy that hopefully I won’t have to think about any worries or any predicaments come to Adare Manor then or hopefully ever. I want to support the DP World Tour. There’s a lot of events I want to play.
“My only concern right now, when it comes to those events in October, is the due date that we have. That’s the only issue I have that would make me not be at the Spanish Open. Besides that, I think they can count on my participation.”
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