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Jon Rahm opens up on Brooks Koepka's departure from LIV Golf, if LIV will receive OWGR points and his stance on fines from the DP World Tour

Subpar

GOLF.com

Golf, Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this 300th episode of GOLF's Subpar, Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz are joined by their first ever guest Jon Rahm. The 2-time Major Champion shares his thoughts on Brooks Koepka departing LIV Golf, if LIV will ever receive OWGR points and how fines from the DP World Tour may effect his Ryder Cup future.

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0:00.0

Happy New Year, everyone.

0:11.1

Welcome back to another season of golf subpar.

0:13.9

Hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season.

0:16.6

So leave it a nice little break, a few weeks off.

0:19.1

It's time to get back to work.

0:20.7

Back to it. Another season in the books. Normally we'd, a few weeks off. It's time to get back to work. Back to it.

0:21.5

Another season in the books. Normally we'd have a century right now. But there's a lot of disappointed wives out there. Wives and girlfriends, very disappointed that this week's not happened. Although I just saw pictures of the place. It looks perfect. It looks absolutely perfect. Which is good news. I'm sure they'll be back next year. I mean, I think they were a little worried a few months ago with how it was and they're like, we got to make a decision. We can't have guys showing up in this place being a dirt field. But hey, good news is it looks like they've turned in the corner. Obviously, water restrictions, drought, all that. Things are looking good down there. And hopefully they'll be back in 2027. But as of now, the start of the season is going to be the Sony open. And we're going to get to that before. We've got to talk about, I would say, the big golf news that just think they slid right in there right before Christmas. Right on like Christmas Eve or something. Nice timing. But Brooks Kepka and Liv, they are no longer in a relationship together.

1:11.9

They said they have parted ways.

1:13.9

Brooks will not be playing on Live in 2026.

1:17.0

A very interesting scenario here.

1:19.4

Everything that, you know, I've been told through this whole process is basically it's a one-year

1:23.3

suspension.

1:24.5

And with that being said, Brooks last tournament was in August. So it looks like maybe,

1:30.0

hey, I'm trying to get, he's trying to get a jump start on this. Sit out this year. He can still

1:33.9

play the majors. He can play the DP World Tour. But I think the big thing for him is coming back in

1:40.2

2027, Ryder Cup year, try to make that team. But sounds like he wants to get this suspension over with and get back to playing on the PJ tour. And he was always even like the last two years, I feel like the one guy over there that, I don't want to say it didn't feel like he bought it in, but like he's the only guy wearing his own logos. You know what I mean? He wasn't wearing the team stuff. I never really heard him like kind of pumping the tires of live or this is great. I love this. It was kind of like he was there and he was doing it.

2:04.6

He'd show up at the majors and those still had all his attention. The fact that he left early, I don't know what kind of penalty he had to pay. I would assume you got to give some of the money back if you're not going to fulfill your contract. If not, that's a great contract. That would be a great deal. You're like, I'm going to take it all.

2:18.1

I'll take it all and go.

2:19.3

But the year-long suspension, I mean, that's what they just gave to Pat Perez, by the way. We can talk about, too, who the last thing he did a year ago last August was be on the broadcast, wasn't even playing. And they're giving him a year for PJ Tour champions. So I would expect the same thing from Brooks.

2:33.3

I would expect like an official announcement soon on that.

2:36.6

Because like if they just say, hey, welcome. tour champion. So I would expect the same thing from Brooks. I would expect like an official

2:34.7

announcement soon on that. Because like if they just say, hey, welcome back, which by the way is what

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