Jon Rahm won't play until LIV Golf opener next year, achieving career first in 2025

Jon Rahm has won every year of his career since turning pro. Until this year.

And he said Sunday that won't change.

Speaking after a T-9 finish at the Spanish Open, Rahm told Ten Golf he was going to take a nearly four-month break from competition, set to make his return for the LIV Golf opener in 2026.

“I’ve never had three months off, but I’m looking forward to it," Rahm said. "Other athletes have it, and we’ll see. I’m lucky to be able to go home now, have a preseason, be a father, be with my family, and well, if I see that it’s too much, then maybe I won’t do it next year, but I’m looking forward to it."

It may have been a winless season, but it wasn't without success for the Spaniard. He won the LIV Golf season-long individual championship over Joaquin Niemann, who lifted five trophies, and was a part of the victorious European Ryder Cup team last month at Bethpage Black.

The Spanish Open was his fourth DP World Tour start, the minimum needed to retain membership, though he still has appealed fines levied by the tour on him for joining LIV Golf. Those appeals have allowed him, as well as Legion XIII teammate Tyrrell Hatton and others, to compete on the circuit.

Last month at the BMW PGA Championship, Rahm joked he had forgotten about the appeals and has long said he won't pay the fines. "I have no idea. I have no clue,” Rahm said of the ongoing process. “To be fair, I completely forgot about, which is a good thing. I hope I forget about it until it happens."

And now, Rahm will head into the shadows for four months until he competes in his third season for LIV Golf, starting in Riyadh in February.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Jon Rahm won't play until LIV Golf opener in 2026, winless in 2025