Tom McKibbin, who secured a PGA Tour card last year, is rumored to be joining LIV Golf for a reported $8 million deal, filling a spot left vacant on Jon Rahm's team. This move would see McKibbin forgo his PGA Tour card and future Ryder Cup opportunities, sparking discussions about the financial allure of LIV Golf and its impact on the professional golf landscape.
Gavin Cooney LAST YEAR TOM McKibbin birdied the final hole of the final event of the DP World Tour season to grab the final PGA Tour card on offer for 2025, and having achieved his dream, McKibbin he has now found eight million reasons not to go and live it.
We have seen this movie before, and it usually ends with the protagonist riding into the Sunset Tour with bags of cash. Advertisement McKibbin has not worked his way sufficiently into the national consciousness for this to be met with the full, is nothing sacred shriek. Instead, the general reaction among Irish golf fans were a couple of raised eyebrows followed by a shallow kind of sigh. We’re in not-angry-but-disappointed territory.
The pair ended the DP World Tour finale event locked in an embrace, as a victorious McIlroy briefly swapped his own tearful emotion for a sheer kind of pride once McKibbin told him he was bound for the PGA Tour.The 21-year-old claimed the final dual membership spot.#DPWTC | #RolexSeries pic.twitter.com/c6cUFdBfvmBut, hey, the Saudis pay a lot of money to make things look cheap.
Plus, joining LIV is no longer ruinous to one’s public reputation. We are long passed the era in which LIV players were met with a righteous kind of scorn for choosing the Saudi millions: that was doled out to the early defectors, such as Graeme McDowell, who can now have some justifiable complaint for being used as one of the operation’s early-days mudguards.
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