Jon Rahm to Make DP World Tour Return in Abu Dhabi

Jon Rahm is set to make his first tournament start since leaving LIV Golf, committing to next month's Abu Dhabi Championship on the DP World Tour.

When does Jon Rahm return and where?

Rahm will tee it up at the Abu Dhabi Championship, Nov. 5-8 at Yas Links in the United Arab Emirates, the DP World Tour's second-to-last event of the season. It will be his first start outside LIV Golf since November 2023, the month before he signed with the league.

The commitment follows a court filing this week in LIV Golf's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, in which Rahm's lawyers said the terms proposed for a relaunched "LIV 2.0" in 2027 were unacceptable and that Rahm would not take part. Rahm is listed as the largest creditor in that filing; he was reportedly guaranteed $350 million to join LIV in 2024, though how much of that he has actually been paid is unknown.

What does this mean for his schedule?

Rahm kept a limited DP World Tour schedule through his three LIV seasons, playing the Scottish Open, Irish Open and BMW PGA Championship this year. He skipped last week's Open de España as he and his wife, Kelley, await the birth of their fourth child. He won LIV's season-long individual title all three years but has not won on the DP World Tour since joining; his last DP World Tour-sanctioned win was the 2023 Masters, and his most recent non-major European win came at the 2022 DP World Tour Championship, an event he has won three times and which returns Nov. 12.

The exit comes days before a deadline that would have complicated it. The DP World Tour said this week that any player signing with LIV 2.0 will be barred from its events in 2027 and will forfeit the membership that carries European Ryder Cup eligibility. Leaving now keeps both paths open for Rahm, who had no clear route back to the PGA Tour while still under LIV contract.

Leaving LIV before the deadline kept the Ryder Cup door open that signing with LIV 2.0 would have closed.