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‘Betrayal from management’: Confusion continues to reign over PGA Tour-LIV Golf partnership

Rory McIlroy is joined by Johnson Wagner on the course of the Los Angeles Country Club to discuss different approaches to the greens.

LOS ANGELES — Jon Rahm was at home in Scottsdale, Ariz., making breakfast and taking care of his two young sons last Tuesday morning when he heard his phone buzz.

Then it buzzed again.

And again.

That deluge of texts from friends and colleagues was how the world’s second-ranked golfer learned his sport was about to undergo seismic change. The rest of the golf world discovered at the same time Rahm did that the PGA Tour and LIV Golf had sheathed their swords and laid the groundwork for an unlikely partnership.