Jon Rahm has confirmed in an interview with Spanish reporters after the Open de Espana that he will not be playing in another competitive golf tournament until 2026.
Rahm‘s schedule update comes at a time when his future membership on both the DP World Tour and European Ryder Cup team remains unknown given his appeal hearing against sanctions for competing in LIV Golf events has still yet to be heard.
The 30-year-old Spaniard closed with a brilliant final-round 65 to backdoor a top-10 finish on home turf at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid on Sunday.
But despite his final-round burst pushing him up three spots to 56th on the Race to Dubai standings to qualify him for next month’s DP World Tour Playoffs starting in Abu Dhabi, Rahm has now confirmed he will play no part in the season-ending events on the former European Tour circuit.
The top 70 on the DP World Rankings next month will compete in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, before the top 50 in the race will then round out the season at the DP World Tour Championship, a tournament Rahm has won a joint-record three times.
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Rahm also chose to bypass the DP World Tour Championship last season.
Rory McIlroy, who has matched Rahm for three wins at the DP World Tour Championship, currently holds a 400-point lead in the Race to Dubai over Marco Penge, who won for a third time this season at the Open de Espana.
McIlroy, who is playing in India for the first time in his career this week, will go in search of a seventh Race to Dubai that would pull him to within one of eight-time Order of Merit record holder Colin Montgomerie.
But for Rahm, his season is now over.
Rahm with McIlroy at the Ryder Cup
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Jon Rahm’s season is over
Rahm confirmed to a pool of reporters from Spanish publications including Marca and Ten Golf on Sunday that he will not be playing in any more tournaments until LIV Golf Riyadh from 5-7 February 2026.
That tournament under the lights in Saudi Arabia will tee off the 2026 LIV Golf season.
It also means 2025 will mark Rahm’s first winless individual tournament season since he turned professional in 2016.
The Open de Espana marked Rahm’s fourth counting event of 2025 with which to maintain membership of the DP World Tour in 2026.
Players have to compete in four events on the DP World Tour outside of the majors in order to fulfil their membership status.
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For Rahm those four events were the Hero Dubai Desert Classic (MC), BMW PGA (T13), Ryder Cup (won) and Open de Espana (T9).
Rahm’s season is now over
Rahm admits last month’s Ryder Cup has taken a significant toll on him both mentally and physically, and he is now looking forward to taking three months off for the first ever time to recharge the batteries with his family back home in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The Spaniard is married to wife Kelley Cahill and the couple share three children: two sons, Kepa and Eneko, and one daughter, Alaia.
His sons were born in 2021 and 2022, while his daughter was born in 2024.
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“The Ryder Cup was very tough, and last week was more of a recovery week,” Rahm told Marca, in comments that have been translated to English.
“I played well enough this tournament to have a chance of winning, but I made too many mistakes.”
Of his upcoming lengthy off-season, Rahm said: “I’ve never had three months off, but I’m looking forward to it.
“Other athletes have it, and we’ll see. I’m lucky to be able to go home now, have a preseason, be a father, be with my family, and well, if I see that it’s too much, then maybe I won’t do it next year, but I’m looking forward to it.”
🔚 Un buen sabor de boca final… y el anuncio de que no competirá hasta febrero de 2026. Así se ha despedido Jon Rahm de Madrid https://t.co/jAbmRNU5dd
— Ten-Golf (@Tengolf) October 12, 2025
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Although Rahm failed to win an individual tournament in 2025, he did manage to successfully defend the LIV Golf Individual Championship in August.
Despite the fact Joaquin Niemann won five times on LIV Golf this season, Rahm proved much the more consistent player registering 12 of 13 top-10 finishes.
Rahm’s Legion XIII, also comprising Tyrrell Hatton, Tom McKibbin and Caleb Surratt, then went and won the season-ending Team Championship.
“I’ve won the team league, also individually, and the Ryder Cup so I don’t feel like I haven’t won anything this year,” said Rahm.
Hatton celebrates with Rahm at Ryder Cup
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Jon Rahm’s appeal hearing against DP World Tour sanctions to be heard soon
Rahm’s schedule update comes at a time when his hearing for his appeal against DP World Tour sanctions for competing in LIV Golf events is still yet to be heard.
Hatton is also in the same boat, but the Englishman has confirmed he will take part in the season-ending DP World Tour Playoffs.
Both Rahm and Hatton’s appeals hearing against DP World Tour sanctions is expected to soon be heard by an independent arbitration panel.
With their appeals being pushed back until after the Ryder Cup, it meant they were able to compete in the biennial contest last month.
Rahm and Hatton have been heavily fined by the DP World Tour for participating in LIV Golf tournaments that have conflicted with DP World Tour events without required permission.
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The DP World Tour has fined players £100,000 for each time they competed in a conflicting LIV Golf event without a release.
Players have also been suspended from subsequent tournaments as a result.
Rahm and Hatton have both confirmed they have no intention to pay off their fines.
Each player’s appeal has therefore had to follow a legal process to dispute the fines and sanctions imposed by the DP World Tour.
Under an appeals process, players are able to remain members of the DP World Tour.
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Successfully appealing the sanctions would clear the path for them to continue as DP World Tour members and be eligible for Ryder Cup selection.
But many believe their appeals will be ruled against them, especially since the likes of Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood failed to appeal against their own fines and suspensions for playing in LIV Golf events without permission from the DP World Tour in 2023.
That saw Westwood, Poulter and a number of others choose to resign their memberships of their long-time tours.
Should both Rahm and Hatton’s appeals be ruled against them, then it will cast doubt over both their future DP World Tour and Ryder Cup careers.
Rahm and Hatton
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Rahm and Hatton both decided to join LIV Golf for the breakaway league’s third season in 2024.
While the numbers have never been made official, it is believed Rahm accepted a multi-year deal in the region of $350m.
Hatton joined for around five times less.
Both Legion XIII players once again teamed up admirably for Luke Donald’s European Ryder Cup side two weeks ago in New York.
They won both of their foursomes matches alongside one another as Donald’s Europe defeated Keegan Bradley’s Team USA 15-13 at Bethpage.
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Hatton excelled taking three and half points from a possible four, while Rahm took three from five.
“The most emotional, the most special thing has been the Ryder Cup,” said Rahm, when further reflecting on why he needs three months rest.
“The only week that has a chance of matching this Ryder Cup on an emotional level will be the Spanish Ryder Cup in 2031.
“It would be special, but as tough as the New York Ryder Cup was and ending up winning, I find it difficult for another week to match it.”
The victory for Europe marked the first time an away team has won the Ryder Cup since Medinah in 2012.
It was also a third Ryder Cup win for both Hatton and Rahm (2018, 2023, 2025).
Rahm lifts the Ryder Cup
Rahm played in all four majors in 2025 with some solid results.
He finished T14 at The Masters, T8 at the US PGA, T7 at the US Open and T34 at The Open.
Rahm is a two-time major champion having won the 2021 US Open and 2023 Masters.
With LIV Golf events remaining shut out of receiving Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) points, former World No.1 Rahm unthinkably looks on from 71st position as it stands.
With Data Golf though, he’s a much more realistic third.
As for Rahm’s future DP World Tour and Ryder Cup status, sit tight on that one…
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