{"id":52243,"date":"2026-08-18T12:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/52243\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:39:12","slug":"how-the-pga-tour-treated-jon-rahm-compared-to-tyrrell-hatton-makes-it-clear-how-they-will-deal-with-liv-players-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/52243\/","title":{"rendered":"How the PGA Tour treated Jon Rahm compared to Tyrrell Hatton makes it clear how they will deal with LIV players leaving\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/profile.google.com\/cp\/Cg0vZy8xMWcxajNfc2h3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Follow us on Google Discover <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The biggest domino is about to fall, as Jon Rahm looks to have agreed to a deal with the PGA Tour which would allow him to make a return from LIV Golf. <\/p>\n<p>The two-time major winner will reportedly pay $25 million to charity, not receive sponsor exemptions for Signature Events next season, and make an \u201capology\u201d to announce his departure from LIV.<\/p>\n<p>These are similar, but harsher, terms to the ones Brooks Koepka agreed to earlier in the year. Rahm will pay $20 million more than Koepka, who returned to the PGA Tour in January, but the competitive repercussions are largely the same. <\/p>\n<p>Rahm\u2019s LIV teammate, Tyrrell Hatton, also seeks a PGA Tour return, but the way he\u2019s been treated by the PGA Tour tells us all we need to know about how the tour plans to deal with LIV players jumping ship. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2264858376-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Rahm of Legion XIII (R) celebrates with Tyrrell Hatton of Legion XIII\" class=\"wp-image-2606744\" \/>Photo by Yu Chun Christopher Wong\/Eurasia Sport Images\/Getty ImagesPGA Tour has not agreed to a deal with Tyrrell Hatton <\/p>\n<p>When Koepka came back to the PGA Tour, the same deal he agreed to was offered to Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, and Cameron Young. The tour prioritized major-winning stars who are still among the best players in the world, and that\u2019s no different now. <\/p>\n<p>Because while Hatton is currently attempting to return to the PGA Tour with Rahm, nothing has been agreed upon between the two parties yet. The tour was keen to secure Rahm\u2019s services for next year, but is less interested in Hatton. <\/p>\n<p>        How do you feel about Jon Rahm potentially returning to the PGA Tour? <\/p>\n<p class=\"grv-talking-point__subtitle\">What punishment should he face?<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2289654995-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"LIV Golf New York - Day Three\" class=\"wp-image-121471\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p>This shows the tour is happy to pick and choose which LIV players are allowed back over the coming months. They clearly don\u2019t feel the need to roll out the red carpet for every player who wants to return. <\/p>\n<p>Presumably, the PGA Tour are still only interested in signing the same three players they offered Koepka\u2019s deal to earlier in the year. So unless DeChambeau or Smith decide to follow Rahm, the Spaniard will be the only returnee. <\/p>\n<p>As for the rest, they\u2019ll need to take the same route as Patrick Reed by playing a season on the DP World Tour in the hope of coming back to the PGA Tour in 2028. <\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive exclusive football transfer news and updates twice a week to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover The biggest domino is about to fall, as Jon Rahm looks to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[528,81,144,604],"class_list":["post-52243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jon-rahm","tag-jon-rahm","tag-liv-golf","tag-pga-tour","tag-tyrrell-hatton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}