DP World Tour player fuming with latest Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton update

LIV Golf’s Army XIII twosome and European Ryder Glass colleagues Rahm and Hatton have been allowed to return to the DP World Visit having offered against strong fines on them for playing in LIV Golf competitions without authorization this season.

Both Hatton, 32, and Rahm, 29, were required to play in four normal DP World Visit occasions exterior of the majors in arrange to hold their enrollment of the previous European Visit circuit and more imperatively keep their trusts lively of competing in Luke Donald’s 2025 European Ryder Glass group in Modern York.

Hatton and Rahm have requested their fines
Hatton and Rahm have requested their fines
“Jon Rahm includes a pending request against sanctions forced on him and in understanding with the DP World Tour’s Controls, he is qualified to take part within the acciona Open de España displayed by Madrid afterward this month,” affirmed a DP World Visit representative.

The same explanation was given in connection to Hatton, who made his return to the DP World Tour at the British Experts prior this month.

But within the eyes of Wiesberger, 38, who played seven LIV Golf occasions in 2022 and after that a full season on the Saudi-backed association in 2023, the most recent overhaul on Rahm and Hatton does not sit well with him within the smallest. 
The Austrian also paid off his hefty fine in order to return to the DP World Tour, however, it is believed LIV paid around £1.5m on his behalf.

Bernd Wiesberger fuming Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton are able to return to the DP World Tour under appeal of their fines
“I don’t really like the look of it, purely for the reason that I’ve done all my fines and my sanctions and I wasn’t able to play tournaments on this Tour as a full member,” Wiesberger told reporters during the Irish Open where he finished T63 at Royal County Down.

“I was going to play the Barracuda Championship and this Tour was unable to get me in the field because it was a co-sanctioned event (with the PGA Tour), which left a pretty sour taste in my mouth.

“This ‘going around corners’ now, I don’t really like it, but I like that we have the best players possible playing our tournaments. It’s a little bit of a conundrum in that sense for me.

“It opens a lot of, I’m not saying loopholes, but a lot of question marks. It will be a process.

“I will most likely attend the AGM on Monday in Wentworth and hear if there’s some kind of statement from the Tour there towards its members and stakeholders. It will be interesting to hear.

“For me, having to go through all the fines and sanctions that I had – I’m not getting any money back I’m sure.”

Despite the Austrian’s apparent irritation, it should be noted the appeal situation for both Rahm and Hatton is exactly the same as it has been for other players such as Wiesberger, who appealed his own sanctions when joining LIV Golf for the first time in the summer of 2022.

Wiesberger’s sanctions were stayed until the outcome of that appeal in April 2023.

As for his comment about not making it into the Barracuda Championship, well this is not a co-sanctioned event with the PGA Tour unlike the Scottish Open.

The Barracuda is a PGA Tour event that gives access for DP World Tour members.

A DP World Tour spokesperson told GolfMagic that Wiesberger “was unable to play in the Barracuda Championship because he was ineligible under PGA Tour rules having played in an unauthorised event within the previous year, and he was informed of that and was aware of it.”
Neither Rahm or Hatton are able to participate in this week’s BMW PGA at Wentworth, the flagship event of the DP World Tour, as a result of it clashing with LIV Golf’s season-ending Team Championship in Dallas.

Rahm confirmed last week he will be teeing it up in the Open de Espana at the end of the month, before also competing in the Dunhill Links and Andalucia Masters to ensure he has played in four regular events on the DP World Tour this season.

The Spaniard’s other counting event on the DP World Tour was the Olympics, where he threw away a four-shot lead heading into the back nine and did not even finish on the podium.

Rahm captured the season-long Individual Championship on LIV Golf following a three-shot victory in Chicago on Sunday.