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Jon Rahm

Athlete

Jon Rahm is a Spanish professional golfer and captain of the Legion XIII team.

Notable Quotes

"Tyrrell played incredible golf all week. He's a truly deserving champion."
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"Obviously, I had a fantastic week myself, and very happy for Tyrrell to have just become a father just over two weeks ago and having his little girl and being a proud girl dad."
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"It has been a great year."
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"At the end of the day, once you step on the golf course it's just golf."
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"Yes and no, it hasn't really changed from my last interview in Indianapolis a few weeks ago."
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"To be fair for us people that joined LIV, I'm pretty good at dealing with turbulence."
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"We'll see what happens."
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"Yes and no. It hasn't really changed from my last interview in Indianapolis."
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"There's just a lot of things in place, right? There's a lot of things that could happen and it's one of those things where time's gonna tell."
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"I still have a contract with LIV 1.0 that I'm more than willing to fulfil, so like I said, time will tell."
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"There's a long legal process they have to go through before a lot of things fall into place."
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