Jon Rahm‘s phrases about his need to proceed taking part in on the PGA Tour have been harshly answered by former participant Arron Oberholser, now on commentary duties at The Golf Channel.
“You are going to inform me you continue to really feel such as you’re a member of the PGA Tour. I need to wring your neck by means of the tv, I am that offended proper now. I am outraged,” exclaimed Oberholser.
Rahm had been clear when requested about his signing with LIV Golf. “Look, they preserve saying ‘the opposite aspect,’ however I am nonetheless a member of the PGA Tour, whether or not I am suspended or not. I nonetheless help the PGA Tour and I feel that is an vital distinction to make. I do not really feel like I am on the opposite aspect. I simply do not play there […] I’ll say what I’ve at all times mentioned, I hope we come to an settlement that is useful to everyone, however I do not know what is going on on.”
After listening to Rahm, Oberholser, winner of the 2006 AT&T Pebble Seaside Nationwide Professional-Am and fourth on the PGA Championship in 2007, exploded, “I am outraged. You’ve got taken 500 grand (referring to hundreds of thousands of euros) and you are going to sit there and say you continue to really feel such as you’re a member of the PGA Tour? Each participant in that PGA Tour locker room ought to be completely outraged at him.”
“To at the present time, he would not get it. This can be a man who needed a place or needed to be heard, from what I perceive. Whether or not it was a board place or a political board place, he needed to be heard about this complete factor earlier than he went to LIV. And I really feel like he wasn’t heard as a lot as he most likely ought to have been, and now I am glad he wasn’t in that place as a result of he would not get it,” added Oberholser, who retired in 2013 due to again and hand accidents.
