FRED COUPLES RIPS INTO LIV GOLF LEAGUE AFTER JON RAHM MOVE

In response to Jon Rahm’s move, PGA Tour legend Fred Couples takes a strong stance against LIV Golf.

Legendary player Fred Couples of the PGA Tour has attacked the LIV Golf League, saying it is “all about money” and “not changing a thing” in the sport.

Couples, who has 15 PGA Tour victories under his belt, including his lone major at the 1992 Masters, shared his most recent reflections with SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio in the wake of Jon Rahm’s shocking decision to join the Saudi-funded league in a reported £450 million deal last week.

The 64-year-old American stated that players would be open to competing in the breakaway league for free rather than taking hundreds of millions of dollars if LIV Golf was that good.

Couples would like PGA Tour players to stop bragging about how amazing the LIV Golf product is, but he has no problem with them signing deals for financial gain.

Couples told SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio:

“I want to hear the next superstar say ‘I’m going to that LIV because you know why I’m going, it is unreal… they play Riviera, TPC Phoenix in front of 300,000 people and they do this and they do that’, but I want them to go for free. Then go on CNN and every TV show and say why they are going because it’s that good. $100m doesn’t get it. $200m doesn’t get it. $300m doesn’t get it. But for $400m, it’s a great product and it’s a great show… my ass. Tell me the next guy, if it’s Tony Finau, ‘I’m going for free boys, I love this Tour, I don’t like the PGA Tour’. No one is going to do that. So what does that tell me? It tells me it’s all about money, which is fine. But don’t sit there and then go on and say they are changing the game. What are they changing? For 50 years, golf has been changed. Arnold Palmer changed it, Jack Nicklaus changed it, Tiger Woods changed it. The LIV Tour ain’t changing a thing.”

Jon Rahm has said the size of his offer from LIV weighed into his decision to join the tour.

Fred Couples has no problem with that, but he’d like for everyone to stop telling him how great LIV’s product is.

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