Jon Rahm accuses DP World Tour of 'extorting' LIV Golf players with six-tournament mandate

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Two-time major winner and LIV Golf star Jon Rahm fired back at the DP World Tour this week, accusing the European sports organization of "extorting" players by forcing them to play additional tournaments and pay fines for not getting releases to play on the competing Saudi-backed golf league. 

Last month, the European Tour announced that it had reached a deal with eight LIV Golf pros that would allow them to continue playing on the rival tour without acquiring more fines for playing in events that took place during the same week as DP World Tour events. 

Team Europe's Jon Rahm hits his tee shot on the No. 1 hole during the singles on the final day of competition for the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in Bethpage, New York, on Sept. 28, 2025. (Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters via Imagn Images)

Rahm was not one of the eight. 

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"I don't like what they're doing currently with the contract they're having us sign," he said, speaking to the media Tuesday at the LIV Golf Hong Kong event. "I don't like the conditions. They're asking me to play a minimum of six events, and they dictate where two of those have to be, amongst other things that I don't agree with."

Rahm, winner of the 2023 Masters and the 2021 U.S. Open, argued he never needed to be granted releases from either the PGA Tour or DP World Tour prior to joining LIV. 

"I've been a dual member my whole career, PGA Tour and DP World Tour. Now with LIV Golf being accepted in the world rankings as part of the ecosystem, you could almost say a three-tour member, even though I'm suspended from the PGA Tour. But I've always been a dual member. Never