Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka, two of the biggest stars in the LIV Golf League, are reportedly also unhappy with their choice to join the Saudi-owned league and look back on the decision with regret.
That revelation came out in a Global Golf Post column by Jim Nugent, whose column this week posits that there will never be a permanent investment deal made between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which owns the overwhelming portion of LIV Golf.
In the column, Nugent said it is a "poorly kept secret" in the south Florida golf community that Koepka, who has won a record five LIV Golf titles since joining the circuit, doesn't enjoy playing LIV Golf. Nugent said Koepka is "miserable" on the circuit. That may not seem particularly out of place considering that 1992 Masters champion Fred Couples has publicly said Koepka looks to return to the PGA Tour when his LIV Golf contract expires.
For his part, Koepka said at the LIV Golf Singapore event that he will honor his LIV Golf contract to its conclusion and was not sure what he would do next.
"I've got a contract obligation out here to fulfill, and then we'll see what happens," Koepka said. "I don't know where I'm going, so I don't know how everybody else does."
Koepka said ahead of LIV Golf Miami that he expected the league's business would be "further along" now in the fourth year of the concept.
Nugent also said a source tells him that Jon Rahm is regrets his decision to join LIV Golf in December 2023. Rahm signed with LIV Golf for a massive, yet unspecified, sum of money. Reporting at the time suggested Rahm believed himself to be a bridge to force a deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudis after the June 2023 Framework Agreement between the two sides didn't quickly net a permanent agreement.
Both players have made a tremendous amount of money from LIV Golf, between the contracts they signed, the money earned in the league's events and through the season-long bonus structure. However, as Koepka, DeChambeau and other players' original LIV Golf contracts end, we may soon get a better sense of how much loyalty that money bought.
