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HOME (HTTPS://WORLDWIDE.GOLF) TOUR NEWS (HTTPS://WORLDWIDE.GOLF/TOUR-NEWS/) BJØRN: SILLY MONEY INVOLVED IN THE GAME, BUT YOU CAN NEVER BLAME THE PLAYERS

08 DEC 2023

Bjørn: Silly money involved in the game, but you can never blame the players

With Jon Rahm joining LIV Golf for a reported $550m plus, European legend Thomas Bjørn believes you can never blame players for the “silly money involved in the game” currently. Rahm, who will have his own team on the breakaway circuit, joins several other Major winners at LIV, including Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Cameron Smith and Phil Mickelson, who were all reported to have earned north of $100m when defecting from the PGA Tour. I spoke to Bjørn a couple of days ago at the MCB Tour Championship – Mauritius, and put the rumoured number of Rahm’s singing fee too him and asked whether he thought players were losing touch with reality.

“Well, it is silly money, but you can never blame the players,” said Bjørn, who won last year’s MCB Tour Championship – Mauritius.

“It’s not the players that are ofering the money. It’s not the players that are driving this. This has been driven from some somewhere else. And that’s where professional sports, not just golf, has gone over a long period of time.