Irish golfer Tom McKibbin has officially signed for LIV Golf and joined Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII team. Two-time major winner Rahm confirmed the expected move with a brief post on social media.
“Tom McKibbin, welcome to the team, let’s go,” Rahm said with a clenched-fist celebration as he confirmed McKibbin will be joining him, Tyrrell Hatton and American Caleb Surratt on the Saudi-funded breakaway.
McKibbin will make his debut when the LIV Golf League begins its fourth season in Riyadh next week.
The 22-year-old honed his game at the same club in Northern Ireland as Rory McIlroy but has ignored McIlroy’s view that the move to LIV Golf is “not worth the sacrifice”.
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McKibbin, who shared a warm embrace with McIlroy after securing a PGA Tour card at the end of last season, rang the four-time major winner for advice about the lucrative switch.
McIlroy said: “There is so much money in the game and some would argue too much money in the game for the eyeballs that we attract.
“For whatever the benefit may be, I don’t think it’s worth the sacrifice to what he’s potentially going to give up.”
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