The easy and perhaps most straightforward approach would be to pay the fines. Jon Rahm can certainly afford whatever amount the DP World Tour is levying against him. And LIV Golf would undoubtedly pay the seven-figure sum and might even round up.
But nothing is that easy, certainly not in golf’s fractured world. Not when it comes to LIV Golf and its disruptive nature, nor the quest by the DP World Tour to uphold its rules and enforce its sanctions—even at the expense of losing one of its biggest draws.
