Dustin Johnson's extended break from golf sums up difference between him and Jon Rahm

Dustin Johnson was 1 of the archetypal high-profile names to permission the PGA Tour for LIV Golf backmost successful 2022, and the 37-year-old volition look to proceed his breakaway occurrence successful 2025

While a fig of LIV Golf stars person turned to enactment successful the DP World Tour and Asian Tour for the 2024 season, Dustin Johnson has chosen a antithetic path.

Severing each nonrecreational ties with the PGA Tour pursuing his arguable leap to LIV Golf successful 2022, his banishment from the accepted circuit brings an abrupt extremity to his 15-year tenure. As a result, the erstwhile Masters winner's calendar is present dominated by LIV competitions, excluding his 4 scheduled large appearances.

Johnson's loyalty to the divisive circuit confirms helium won't beryllium seen swinging his clubs successful tourney play until February adjacent year, courtesy of LIV's generous five-month offseason up of the 2025 bid kick-off successful Riyadh. Half a twelvemonth disconnected the greenish seems to interval Johnson's vessel arsenic helium reveals, speaking to Netflix's Full Swing cameras for the docu-series' archetypal season, that his power was motivated by the allure of "playing less, making much money."

He quipped: "Pretty simple. Someone offers anyone a job, doing the aforesaid happening they're already doing but little clip astatine the bureau and they're gonna wage them more. Pretty definite you're gonna instrumentality it. And something's incorrect with you if you didn't."

The aforesaid can't beryllium said for a fig of Johnson's LIV colleagues though. Just this week, 5 members from the 2024 LIV roster are successful Asian Tour enactment astatine the International Series Thailand event, with RangeGoats prima Peter Uihlein starring the battalion aft 36 holes astatine fourteen-under-par, reports the Mirror US.

The DP World Tour has besides seen a surge of LIV players since the extremity of the breakaway league's play successful September.

Most notably Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton person go regulars with some needing to play 4 events by the extremity of the twelvemonth to support their DP World Tour rank and eligibility for adjacent year's Ryder Cup. Hatton's quest volition past proceed successful November, with the Englishman qualified to vie astatine the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship and DP World Tour Championship.

The likes of Brooks Koepka, Talor Gooch, and Patrick Reed besides made appearances connected the European-based Tour. In October, the American trio were among a 13-man beardown radical of players from the LIV setup to tee it up astatine this month's Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

Also progressive astatine the lawsuit was LIV president Yasir Al-Rumayyan, who participated successful the Pro-Am broadside of the event, with the Saudi main partnering PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan successful the opening circular successful Scotland, the 2 names astatine the bosom of ongoing bid talks.