Jon Rahm: PGA players feel betrayed by leadership in LIV union - ESPN

LOS ANGELES — Masters champion Jon Rahm said some PGA Tour players feel «a bit of betrayal from management» in the wake of the announced alliance between the Tour, the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.

«It gets to a point where you wanna have faith in management,» Rahm said during his U.S. Open press conference Tuesday. «I wanna have faith that this is the best case for us, but that's clearly not the consensus.»

The No. 2-ranked player in the world said he was taking care of his children when he found out about the news of the deal and was as surprised as anyone about the development.

«It's not easy as a player to wake up and see this bombshell,» Rahm said.

When asked if he felt like the PGA Tour had taken player opinion into account as its embarked on a deal that could theoretically further change the nature of the game, Rahm explained his frustration.

«I think to an extent, they value player opinion,» he said. «They've certainly heard us throughout the whole process on some of the issues.

»But we're certainly in a spot in time where there's a big question mark. Where we don't have the answers we would like. It's hard to say."

As players arrived at this year's U.S. Open, they have not shied away from expressing their surprise and their lack of knowledge when it comes to the latest development in golf's evolution. The party line seems to be that they don't know enough information about the proposed framework deal to comment on its merits, but they are commenting on the gap in communication between the Tour's leadership and its members without singling out PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan.

«We want to know the why,» Collin Morikawa said. «I think there's so many different parties involved that