Jon Rahm responds when asked if he could put his own money into the prize funds on LIV Golf in 2027

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Jon Rahm is one of the two biggest stars on LIV Golf, alongside Bryson DeChambeau, of course.

Rahm has struggled in the major championships since joining LIV two-and-a-half years ago, with two missed cuts and only one top-5 finish to his name in 10 starts.

Many golf fans and analysts have questioned the Spaniard’s decision to join LIV, from a competitiveness standpoint at least.

And now, Rahm faces an uncertain future with LIV Golf, after it was announced in April that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund would be pulling the plug on their financial backing of the league.

However, he is clearly more than comfortable with the decision he made to join LIV Golf.

Jon Rahm jumped ship from the PGA Tour in December 2023 after LIV offered him a mammoth $500 million fee, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The 31-year-old Spaniard became one of the richest athletes in the world after making that move.

Whether Jon Rahm could put his own money into the prize funds on LIV Golf

Jon Rahm is the seventh highest earning athlete in the world, having raked in $107 million last year.

The likes of Bryson DeChambeau, Joaquin Niemann and Dustin Johnson are obviously extremely wealthy as well.

With LIV Golf facing an uncertain future, it has been rumored that some of the league’s most high-profile players could help fund the prize pots themselves from next season onwards.

Rahm was asked if there is any truth to those suggestions, when speaking to the press at Renaissance Club on Tuesday ahead of the Genesis Scottish Open.

“I know Scott is doing a lot of work trying to find developers,“ he responded.

“And there’s many ways around that, as far as putting my money into it, they have not asked me to do that yet.

“So I don’t know if they will or not. It’s not something that they have asked me but there has been many different avenues to try to make it different, what we’ve had until now.

“They haven’t asked me to put my money in yet.“

But hypothetically, would he be opposed to putting his own money into the prize funds on LIV?

“Something I’ve learned in life, never say never. I’m not going to say absolutely no to anything that can happen in the future,“ he replied.

Jon Rahm comments on the current state of his game

Rahm is in the field for the Scottish Open this week – a tournament co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour.

A win for him this week would be a huge statement.

Rahm responded when asked by one reporter to provide an update of where his game is at right now.

“Yeah, feels good,“ he said.

“I would say the mistakes have something to do with how I’m hitting in the game, right.

“It’s just I feel like that’s one of those things that can only happen at a U.S. Open and a place like Shinnecock because it didn’t feel like hit bad shots, except the swing on 14, and that’s why I say it’s my mistakes.

“If it doesn’t feel that bad, I should have made a better job of minimizing some of the mistakes.“