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Rahm insists he's as hungry as ever despite LIV move

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Vincent
Published date10 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
The Spaniard's shock move to the Saudi-backed breakaway competition came after he had previously pledged his loyalty to the PGA Tour and criticised LIV's 54-hole format, with no cut and a shotgun start as "not a golf tournament"

The two-time major winner has failed to win any of the five LIV events he has played but travelled to Augusta on the back of finishing fourth in Miami on Sunday and winning the team event at Doral.

"I've had a lot of fun playing in those events," Rahm said. "The competition's still there. Yeah, they're smaller fields but you still have to beat some of the best players in the world and you still have to play at the same level you have to play on the PGA Tour to win those events.

"I understand there's less people. I understand the team format's a little different. I understand we're going shotgun and things are a little bit different to how they are in a PGA Tour event.

"But the pressure's there. I want to win as bad as I wanted to win before I moved on to LIV. Going down the stretch when you're in contention is the exact same feelings. That really doesn't change.

"Winning is winning and that's what matters."

At this time last year Rahm had played eight PGA Tour events and won three of them, although his last two events before the Masters had seem him withdraw from the Players Championship due to illness and fail to advance from the group stages of the WGC-Dell Technologies...

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