‘My job is to play golf’: Jon Rahm wants no part in LIV investor push

LIV Golf is in a fight for survival. The goal? Replace the mountains of cash pulled by Saudi Arabia’s PIF with billions of dollars from new investors. The frantic push for investment is being directly supported by LIV’s biggest star Bryson DeChambeau.

However, LIV’s next biggest star, Jon Rahm, is following a very different tack. In his Monday press conference at this week’s LIV Golf Andalucia event, Rahm revealed that unlike DeChambeau, he’s not involved in LIV’s investor search.

Not only does he not want to be involved, but Rahm also explained why it would be a bad idea for LIV’s business leaders to include him in investor meetings.

Why Rahm isn’t helping LIV find investors: ‘I know nothing about business’

Rahm is in the midst of the best season of his LIV Golf career. While he captured LIV’s Individual title the last two years, Rahm claimed the 2025 crown without winning a tournament.

This year, he’s leading the LIV Individual standings yet again, but this time he already has two victories, at LIV Golf Hong Kong in March and LIV Golf Mexico City in April. In May, he burst back into major contention with a T2 at the PGA Championship.

The two-time major champion has accomplished all of this while LIV Golf’s future, and his own, has been thrown into doubt.

The PIF’s decision to suddenly abandon LIV is of particular concern for Rahm, who is still under contract to play on the tour for an unknown number of years. While he did finally resolve a long-running dispute with the DP World Tour recently, he has not publicly flirted with a PGA Tour return, as DeChambeau has on a number of occasions.

Given that Rahm’s future is deeply intertwined with LIV’s, it may come as a surprise that he’s not involved with the league’s pursuit of investors.

“I am not, no. I said it in Spanish; I don’t know how to translate it to English. It would be more of a stay-in-your-lane type situation as it goes to me,” Rahm said in his Monday press conference at LIV Golf Andalucia.

He went on to state he knows “nothing about business,” which is why if he were to go to a LIV investor meeting, he wouldn’t have any idea what to say.

“I know nothing about business. I’m never going to claim to know anything about business,” Rahm said, “And if I was in a business pitch, I would not know the first thing to say.”

He continued: “My job is to play golf, and I’ll say it is hard enough as it is, especially this week.”

The reality, however, is that if LIV Golf folds after this season, Rahm will have to find another place to do his job.

Rahm supports Bryson DeChambeau ‘giving all’ for LIV’s future

While Rahm is choosing to stay on the sidelines in LIV Golf’s business pitches to investors, he did express support for players like Bryson DeChambeau getting involved.

“If any player who knows what they’re doing is willing to do certain things like that, I think it can only help. To have insight from a player on a meeting like that can help, and I’m open for any suggestions possible,” Rahm said.

Then Rahm claimed he doesn’t have the “free time that Bryson has” to attend LIV investment meetings because he has to care for his kids.

“I would also say I don’t have the free time that Bryson has to be flying around the country to attend meetings with three little ones and one on the way,” Rahm said. “Even if I wanted to, I don’t know if I could do it.”

The contrast between the positions Rahm and DeChambeau find themselves in at this critical moment is interesting.

While Rahm is signed with LIV Golf for years to come, DeChambeau’s contract is up after this season. But Rahm only started playing on LIV in 2024. DeChambeau, on the other hand, has been with LIV from the beginning and acted as its most vocal supporter.

That may explain why DeChambeau is choosing to help LIV in its push for survival, while Rahm is not.

At last week’s LIV Golf Korea event, DeChambeau expressed optimism in LIV’s business plan despite the PIF’s “surprising” decision to pull out of the league.

“One door closes, another opens. I think that’s the way a lot of us are looking at it,” DeChambeau said last week. “I think we all have optimism that there is a business plan that makes sense for team golf. I’d quite honestly actually — how do I say it? I’m very optimistic with the business plan of team golf compared to other models, in my opinion.”

He added that he was “giving all” he can to help LIV’s investment efforts.

“We’ll see if investors like it or not,” he said. “I’m giving all I can to make it happen, and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t happen.”

This article originated on Golf.com