PGA Tour stars collectively make their feelings clear on Jon Rahm defecting to LIV Golf
Jon Rahm’s rewarding move to LIV Golf extended the gap cracking the game, and maybe left a harsh desire for the mouth of his friends in the midst of the PGA Visit Player of the Year vote
Jon Rahm passed up PGA Visit Player of the Year praises to Scottie Scheffler following his much-advertised deserting to LIV Golf.
Scheffler was a commendable victor, teaching consistency across the season to be casted a ballot the principal consecutive champ of the PGA Visit Player of the Year grant since Tiger Woods in 2006-07. The World No. 1 partook in the best factual season since the incomparable Woods, driving the visit in terrifically significant classifications alongside scoring.
Strikingly, Scheffler had the seventh-most reduced change scoring normal (68.63) in PGA Visit history – the main six have a place with Woods. The 27-year-old completed external the main 10 just multiple times in 23 competitions over a period crossing back to September 2022.
During the year, Scheffler partook in a heavenly run of 18 back to back begins where his most obviously terrible completion was twelfth. In any case, he didn’t win as much as Rahm. The American won the Players Championship and the Phoenix Open, but Rahm won four times, winning his second major of his career by winning the Masters at Augusta National.
Given Rahm’s record throughout recent months, eyebrows might be raised about whether the Spaniard was punished for his disputable move to LIV Golf. Scheffler highlighted his consistency as what got him the honor.
“Anything that you get decided on by your friends is extremely extraordinary to me and having the option to return home with this prize two years straight presently is exceptionally unique,” Scheffler said. ” I think the assortment of work I put in last year … I was extremely pleased with that consistency.”
The PGA Visit uncovered casting a ballot occurred from 1-15 December. On 7 December, Rahm reported his rewarding move to LIV Golf, wearing a LIV Letterman’s coat as his arrangement worth up to £450 million was affirmed.
In what appeared to be a close race, the PGA Tour withheld the percentage of votes cast for Rory McIlroy, FedEx Cup champion Viktor Hovland, U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark, and Rahm. Scheffler got 38% of the vote one month subsequent to suggesting Rahm might accept his vote as golf is eventually about winning.
Inquired as to whether he was amazed to win, Scheffler said: ” I surmise this year they truly sort of valued my consistency. The manner in which I played the whole year – I assume I perhaps just had a couple of starts that I would classify as not extraordinary, yet other than that I had a great deal of starts where I just played truly strong golf. And I believe it is extremely challenging to do that for an entire season out here.”
