After 13 events and visiting seven continents, LIV Golf has crowned Jon Rahm as the 2024 Individual Champion at Bolingbrook Golf Club in Chicago. It is quite incredible that the Spaniard won the coveted title in his debut year in the disruptive league. Rahm was over cloud nine as his teammates celebrated the win with a champagne shower. The 2-time major winner revealed that he was quite happy with everything and proud of his victory.
Even before winning LIV Golf Chicago, Rahm had clarified that he was happy on LIV Golf. Unlike what many insiders suggested that Rahm wanted to move back on the PGA Tour. Thus, Tiger Woods’s ex-coach, Hank Haney, who has been an avid supporter of LIV, reposted the video and said, “It means something to @JonRahmOfficial” alluding to the alleged facts that winning on LIV might not be as big for Rahm as it was on the PGA Tour.
In this post, a golf enthusiast took a bizarre dig and sarcastically asked if it meant something for the 2023 Masters winner, “To win a 3-day exhibition?” And Haney was not holding back from giving the fitting reply to the LIV Golf critic. As they questioned the LIV Golf event’s legitimacy, Haney attacked that of the PGA Tour and, in the same tone, replied, “As opposed to a 4-day exhibition?” implying that even the PGA Tour’s events are an exhibition, and if winning on the breakaway circuit wouldn’t mean something, neither should it mean anything on the PGA Tour.
As opposed to a 4 day exhibition? https://t.co/VFrTEOyhiU
— Hank Haney (@HankHaney) September 16, 2024
Since the inception of LIV Golf in 2022, the 68-year-old coach has been in support of the PIF-funded league and those who joined it after leaving the PGA Tour. Even recently, Haney called the corrupt golf media and talked about how no one says how easy it is to win on the PGA Tour as well. And even a few hours before coming for the LIV Golf critic, Haney replied to those who have been criticizing Rahm for many things.
Haney busts the PGA Tour insider’s claim over Rahm’s LIV Golf decision
In August, a veteran PGA Tour insider gave an interview to Golf Digest where he talked about various things along with Jon Rahm’s decision to join the breakaway circuit in 2023 for a reported $500 million. The insider claimed that the Spaniard was regretting his decision to join LIV Golf as he was not as relevant as before. He said, “I am 100 percent positive if Jon could give the money back to the Saudis and come back to the tour; he couldn’t write the check fast enough.”
But Rahm allegedly busted that speculation at LIV Golf Greenbrier, clarifying that he didn’t regret anything and saying, “They just make sh-t up. Couldn’t be further from the truth.” So, it became a quite joke in the golf world, more for LIV Golf’s supporters. Pro Golf Critic sarcastically posted on X that even after Rahm celebrated in Chicago for his victory, a Tour insider might say that he’d rather wanted to be at the Procore Championship.
To which Haney responded and brought out the times when the critics told the Spaniard that he couldn’t have his cake and eat it too as he shared that he wanted to defend his titles on the PGA Tour. Haney said, “You know what they say, “can’t have your cake and eat it too” and “decisions have consequences”, $400m ++++, pretty nice cake and consequences.”
Time and again, it has been proven that Jon Rahm surely doesn’t regret his decision to play on LIV Golf, but even if there are some rumors in the golf world, the Spaniard can always count on Hank Haney to call it out
