Jon Rahm and LIV Golf have inked a record-breaking contract.
PGA Tour player criticizes LIV Golf for “breaking” the sport following Jon Rahm’s £450 million transfer
The latest well-known player to sign up for the LIV Golf setup is Jon Rahm, but a renowned player on the PGA Tour feels the mega-money promises from the breakaway league are hurting the game.
PGA Tour player Mackenzie Hughes is the most recent to criticize LIV Golf’s extravagant expenditures after Jon Rahm was enticed with a £450 million contract.
Finally verified on Thursday, Rahm joined the ranks of Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, and Phil Mickelson by switching to the LIV setup.
The Masters champion, however, seems to have pulled off the biggest coup yet, when he inked a record-breaking contract with the Saudi-backed series.
With the support of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF), the dissident league has been on a spending frenzy that has resulted in a significant transformation of the professional golf landscape.
This latest move finishes off this extraordinary journey. The PGA Tour has also been compelled to act by LIV’s tantalizing prize money and signing fees, as they have raised the amount of money available to their players in an effort to counter the threat posed by their competitors.
Hughes is one player who has benefited from this. But now since he feels that things are getting out of hand, the Canadian resorted to social media to express his opinions about the rapidly unfolding drama that is professional golf.
“The state of men’s professional golf is depressing. The way that it’s The PGA Tour was compelled to swallow its pride and join forces with the Saudi fund, with framework agreement negotiations still underway, as a result of the PIF’s growing influence in the sport.
The division of golf’s greatest players—Koepka and Johnson, for example—has been one of the main causes of contention surrounding the Tour vs LIV struggle.
These players are not allowed to compete on the American circuit.
For the benefit of the supporters, Hughes hopes that the world’s greatest can be reunited once a settlement between the two adversaries is ultimately reached.
Fans desire to watch the top players go up against one another. Rather, we are witnessing the elite athletes divide into several groups,” he continued. It is annoying to observe.
