Jon Rahm the European team wants to Ryder Cup to be as strong as possible in 2023, which led him to adopt a more moderate tone when it came to talking about golfers turning to LIV Golfthe controversial and millionaire Arab Super League.
Speaking to reporters before competing this week at CJ Cup in South Carolinathe Spaniard said it was “important” for the European team to have a welcoming stance towards their potential players in order to maintain a balanced team chemistry.
“So far, in the two Ryder Cups I’ve been a part of, once you enter and you’re in a team environment, it’s a rare situation where everyone can really be themselves with players who maybe not usual. Rahm said.
“So you need to have that welcoming environment. If there’s some animosity between the players, it’s just not going to work. Very few teams can be successful when the players don’t get along,” the former world No. 1 added.
However, he said, good vibes cannot be forced. “I don’t know if you can really do that. I want the best players at the time and the best Ryder Cup players out there, but if that includes having bad blood and having some problems, I don’t know if that’s necessarily. good thing, right?” Rahm wondered.
While his countryman from the European team Rory McIlroy said the old Ryder Cup relationship was severed when some of his former LIV Golf teammates left, Rahm took a different path. He defended his countrymen Sergio Garciathe player with the most points in Ryder Cup history, saying it “bothered” him that his loyalty to LIV could exclude him from future Ryder Cups.
And on October 9, after winning the Spanish Open, Rahm took the time to publicly congratulate the promising Spaniard. Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra for winning the LIV Golf Invitational in Bangkok.
None of this means that Rahm is necessarily sympathetic to LIV Golf or considering a move to the ‘rebel’ circuit. Jon also responded with some skepticism to the recent words of Phil Michaelson when he said he sees the PGA Tour on a “downward trend”.
“Man, I love Phil, but I don’t know what he’s saying, I don’t really know why he said that. There have been changes made, but that doesn’t mean he’s going down, right? I don’t know why he said that. I think there are big changes being made for the players on tour. I really don’t know what made him say something like that,” Rahm concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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