"That's for me to know" - Jon Rahm shuts down LIV Golf question ahead of PGA Championship

Jon Rahm refused to dwell on his decision to join LIV Golf ahead of the second men's major of the year. 

Rahm, 31, arrives at Aronimink Golf Club for the PGA Championship with his long-term prospects unclear after Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund announced they are no longer willing to finance LIV Golf beyond 2026. 

LIV Golf has appointed two new independent board members and hired a New York investment bank as it navigates the post-PIF landscape and attempts to secure its future.

Some golfers, including five-time major winner Brooks Koepka, have already re-joined the PGA Tour and there are whispers several other LIV stars are looking for the exit door. 

But Rahm - who rejected the opportunity to re-join the PGA Tour in January alongside Koepka as part of a returning member programme - remains locked in a lengthy contract. 

Asked whether he regretted his move to LIV amid the crisis, Rahm refused to dwell on his choice to switch to LIV. 

"I would say I've made a lot of decisions in my life and I've never gone back thinking 'Oh, had I known this again, I would do X and Y different'.

"If I lived my life like that as a golfer, I would be a very pessimistic person.

"So we don't know what’s going to happen tomorrow and all we can do is learn from things that happen in the past good and bad.

"Just to speculate on what [I] could have done, what could have been different doesn't really make much sense."

Rahm was asked what he had learned from his decision to join LIV, but the Spaniard didn't want to entertain the question. 

"That is for me to know," he said. 

Rahm admitted that LIV players have had "a lot to deal with" in recent weeks. 

But he is keen to focus on what he can control. This week, he will attempt to win his third major title and first since claiming the 2023 Masters at Augusta National. 

"Out of the few talents I have in my life, fixing a business is not one of them," he added. "I might be the worst person for that.

"It's the people in charge of LIV, whose job I do not envy for a second, it's their job to fix it.

"I have faith in the work that they're doing. I have faith that they're going to come up with a good plan.”

"So my job is to play golf, luckily. I'm decent at it. And that's what I can focus on, right. What I can focus on is the next shot."

Rahm was speaking to reporters shortly after Rory McIlroy admitted he was wrong to previously encourage the PGA Tour to cut a deal with the PIF in 2023. 

McIlroy, who last week said it was "good business" to allow LIV defectors to return to the PGA Tour, said he had heard on the grapevine in March that LIV's future was murky. 

"I think it [withdrawal of funding] was always a possibility to happen," said McIlroy. 

"I think everyone knows, like with everything that’s happening in the Middle East, that had a lot to do with it but whenever you have funding tied so much to the geopolitical landscape in the world, that's a tricky road to navigate.

"Their priorities shifted and that leaves LIV in a pretty precarious spot but again that was always a possibility. I was hearing about this back in March, April time.

"It just feels like the rug was pulled from under their feet and everyone was sort of blindsided by it.

"But again, that's the risk that those guys chose to take. There's a lot of uncertainty in the air right now."