Jon Rahm identifies next LIV Golf signing from shortlist after brutal relegation

Jon Rahm is backmost connected the DP World Tour this week for the Andalucia Masters arsenic helium looks to implicit his four-event request for the season

Golf sensation Jon Rahm has his sights acceptable connected a caller enlistee for his Legion XIII squad successful the upcoming 2025 LIV Golf season, arsenic helium scouts endowment astatine this week's Andalucia Masters.

After jumping vessel to the lucrative LIV Golf league successful 2024 and establishing his ain franchise, Rahm is connected the hunt for a caller look pursuing the relegation of Kieran Vincent from the league. With a five-month model to unafraid a replacement, Rahm is wasting nary time, peculiarly arsenic helium returns to DP World Tour action.

In a candid chat with Spanish work Golf Sin Etiquetas, Rahm, speaking successful his parent tongue, disclosed: "I inactive don't person a subordinate who is already signed but we person six oregon 7 successful mind." He besides hinted that 1 imaginable campaigner is presently competing successful Spain.

But it's not conscionable astir bolstering his squad; Rahm, who clinched the LIV rubric successful 2024, is anxious to turn Legion XIII's marque presence, expressing a tendency to integrate his cogwheel sponsor Callaway into the franchise's commercialized strategy, reports the Mirror US.

Jon Rahm's play has been marred by contention since his power to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit precocious past year. By competing connected the breakaway circuit passim 2024, Rahm enactment his Ryder Cup eligibility astatine risk, arsenic helium was required to enactment successful 4 DP World Tour events earlier the extremity of the year.

Before the Spanish Open past month, Rahm inactive needed to implicit 3 events but was uncertain if helium could bash truthful owed to the fines and suspensions imposed by the DP World Tour for competing successful conflicting LIV events. According to Tour rules, Rahm had to settee his sanctions earlier returning and completing his four-event quota.

However, Rahm expressed his discontent, stating successful September that helium had nary volition of paying the fines. "I'm not a large instrumentality of the fines," helium said astatine LIV Chicago.

"I deliberation I've been outspoken astir that. I don't mean to wage the fines, and we support trying to person a treatment with them astir however we tin marque this happen."

Rahm has since been capable to instrumentality to contention by appealing the sanctions, pursuing successful the footsteps of teammate Tyrrell Hatton. This allowed him to enactment successful the Spanish Open and the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship successful Scotland earlier this month. Rahm volition implicit his requirements with his 4th commencement successful Andalucia this week.