While the negotiations between the PGA and the LIV do not move forward, the decision of the players who have decided to sign for the groundbreaking Saudi league continues to raise blisters among those staunch defenders of the American circuit and traditional golf in general. The move that Jon Rahm made in December in this regard was the most criticized due to the size of his figure and the astronomical figure for which he signed: about 500 million euros for four years.
This Tuesday the Biscayan has once again defended the coexistence of both acronyms to achieve a more attractive sport. «I am still a member of the PGA Tour, suspended or not. I still want to support the PGA Tour. I don’t feel like I’m on the other side. “I’m just not playing there,” he said at the press conference prior to the PGA Championship, the second major of the season being held in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Golf Channel set reacts to Jon Rahm saying in his press conference today saying he’s still a PGA Tour member and wants “to support” it.
“He doesn’t get it…I’m incensed…You don’t get it…I wanted to wring his neck through the television I’m that mad right now.” pic.twitter.com/bjefzSNgCQ
— Fried Egg Golf (@fried_egg_golf) May 14, 2024
«If they had allowed me, I would have played some events at the beginning of the year, and if they allowed me in the future and it didn’t conflict with my schedule, I would play in the future. The PGA Tour has given me so much that I am not going to go against it,” the man from Barrika settled before the media. A few moments later, in a television talk show on the ‘Golf Channel’ channel – created by the legend Arnold Palmer -, former player Arron Oberholser charged against him.
«You have taken 500 grand (in reference to millions of euros) and you are going to sit there and say that you still feel like a member of the PGA Tour, that I want to support him… I want to wring his neck through television, I’m that angry right now. “I am outraged,” the former world number 22 launched during the live broadcast of the program, which is recorded in the press center of the Valhalla field.
22 in the world
Oberholser (California, 1975), who since his retirement in 2013 due to injuries has been an analyst and commentator, reached number 22 in the world ranking. His record highlights the only PGA Tour title he ever won: the 2006 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. A year later he was fourth in the PGA Championship, his best result in a major. .
2024-05-15 05:42:14
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