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Jon Rahm Shares Massive Update on LIV-PGA Tour Merger

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Sean Treppedi | Last updated Apr 8, 2025 3:41 PM ET

It's the week of the Masters and 12 LIV Golf players are slated to compete for a green jacket in 2025.

One of them is Jon Rahm, who won the Masters in 2023.

He joined LIV Golf eight months after winning the Masters as his second major championship.

“I think we all would like to see that,” Rahm said on Tuesday Augusta National. “But as far as I can tell and you guys can tell, it’s not happening anytime soon.”

According to ESPN, the PGA Tour recently rejected a $1.5 billion offer from the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, who are LIV Golf's financial backers, because LIV Golf would continue to exist on those terms.

“We don’t know,” said Rahm about a potential agreement between the two leagues. “No one knows. We all want a solution, and it’s hard to give one.”

The last time that PGA Tour and LIV Golf players competed against one another in the same event was the Open Championship in July 2024.

“I don’t think you need to do anything to make the Masters any more special than it already is,” he said. “Coming here, there’s no added anything to that. Majors have always been aside from every event in the world, and when you come to one of those, it doesn’t feel any different to what it was before.”

Rahm won LIV’s 2024 individual points race and its $18 million first-place prize. Players such as he, Bryson Dechambeau, Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson left for LIV Golf because it offered less commitment and more guaranteed money.

Scheffler, who is the defending Masters champion heading into this week, blames golf's divide on LIV Golf and wishes the competition on the PGA Tour was what it once was.

“I wish some of those guys had stayed, but at the end of the day, they made their choice,” Scheffler said. “They knew the consequences of that decision.”

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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