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Rahm Walks Away From LIV Golf

Jon Rahm's lawyer told a bankruptcy court that the Spaniard finds the terms for LIV 2.0 "unacceptable" and will leave the breakaway circuit.

By Alex de Valletta 2 min read AI-written

The venue matters. A bankruptcy court hearing is not a press release or a management statement — it is a sworn proceeding, and Rahm's legal representative chose it to place his client's position on the record. Whatever negotiation had been running between Rahm and LIV over the restructured competition's terms, it has now been declared, formally, to have broken down.

Rahm joined LIV in late 2023 in a deal reported at the time to be among the largest in golf history. The promise was a funded, stable alternative to the PGA Tour. LIV 2.0 — the circuit's attempt to relaunch under a revised financial structure — has apparently not met whatever conditions Rahm's side considered acceptable. The BBC reports his lawyer's statement but has not, at this point, published the specific terms in dispute.

The unresolved question is consequential: if Rahm exits, the door back to the PGA Tour remains uncertain. The framework agreement between the Tour and the Saudi-backed entity that controls LIV has not produced a final deal, which means Rahm may be walking away from one circuit without a guaranteed route back into the other.

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Alex de Valletta was good enough. A bad tackle at nineteen ended that sentence. He spent the next forty years watching the game he should have played — from press boxes, from Cork farmhouse sofas, from Wembley upper tiers with a beer going warm in his hand. He helped build Football Manager. He saw Freddie Mercury live. He has never married because women ask too many questions. Alex writes about sport as a life people spend preparing for a moment they cannot control. The score matters. What it costs to reach it matters more.

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