Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton ruin Europe's Ryder Cup plans

Jon Rahm (left) and Tyrrell Hatton achieved good results at the Ryder Cup in Rome. Photo: Getty Images/Maddie Meyer

Professional golf's doomsday scenario has already been dubbed «Rahmageddon.» Jon Rahm has signed up for LIV and is now joined by fellow Englishman Tyrrell Hatton. So what will happen to the Ryder Cup now?

If only the golf world could fast forward 20 months, or at least get a snapshot of the next morning's biennial front four draw. That way, the sport will be able to find out whether a deal has been reached with the Saudis or whether the game has become so fragmented that even the very existence of the beloved transatlantic brawl is in jeopardy.

As long as the duo is cute, of course. Invented «Team Angry» is not playing in that first session at Bethpage Black, it may be because Rahm or Hatton — or perhaps both — are injured or out of shape.

However, this is golf, not rugby, and injuries are rare, and in terms of consistency, Rahm and Hutton are on the same level. No, if Luke Donald hasn't restored the partnership that was so impressive in winning last October, then that means he hasn't been allowed to — and that the game has become an even uglier mess than it already is.

Of course , Hatton's last-minute £50 million escape to join his Spanish hombre in time to appear at the LIV golf season opener in Mexico this week would have given Donald an even bigger headache.

If Captain Europe had believed it was necessary to make peace with the £600bn Public Investment Fund — LIV's backer — when Ram announced he was jumping ship last month, then his conviction would have somehow been strengthened even further, as Telegraph Sport reported on Hutton's inclusion. Monday

Let's be as honest as Rory McIlroy was when Rahm ran away. Without the world number three and Hatton, Europe has absolutely no chance of beating the USA in their own backyard. In truth, the chances are unlikely anyway.

By the time we reach the bustling stadium in New York, only one Ryder Cup team had won on the road in the previous two decades. And this absurd return to Medina was called a “miracle.” It will be an island in the future and more.

But Team Angry's absence not only affected the outcome of the match, it also confirmed that the Ryder Cup — the biggest event in professional golf — was in a death spiral.

Of course, the competition got away with it four months ago because the likes of Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia were not available for Europe, and Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau were left out of the squad Stars and Stripes Club. Experts called the three days at the Marco Simone field one of the best in the almost 100-year history of the match.

However, the ignored veterans of the blue and gold team had already passed their expiration date and found themselves in the trash. America, so rich in talent, could have overlooked the omission of Johnson and company. Ramless's autopsy would make this a fiction, and no Hutton would confirm that this is a scam for those paying ridiculous entry fees.

Falsification. then it would be the beginning of the end. Unless they can heal the differences and stop the civil war.

That way, if negotiations fail, Donald will be able to survey the wreckage of his command room in August 2025 and wonder how his selection policy was so spectacularly destroyed. By then, Donald would have been told that the divisions were too pronounced to give the rebels wildcards. And, no matter what some may claim, they will not have the right in any case.

According to the rules, Rahm and Hatton will receive a ban for playing without permission at LIV, and with 14 tournaments to be played by the end of September, if the Tour treats these two the same as the others, it will be virtually impossible. for the couple to meet the minimum requirements for membership in the four regular tournaments.

The World DP World Tour could rewrite the rules and allow LIV players to keep their cards if they pay fines and somehow serve out their bans, but in the midst escalating civil war, with the rank and file asking, “What price loyalty?”, this would be a truly shocking and hypocritical fall.

What about the PGA Tour? Well, they earn their respective Ryder Cup badges anyway, and with their American private investors placing the ammunition, they would be locked in a fight for survival, and due to the «strategic alliance» with the DP World Tour, the threat to existence would be contagious.

As a Tour insider told me on Monday: «Look, if we don't get the PIF sorted by the next Ryder Cup, I'm afraid we're going to be in big trouble.» «

The good news is that negotiations are progressing — «very positively,» says a well-placed source — and there is genuine hope for a solution that suits everyone. As a sign of how far they've come at this table, influencers have stopped calling it a «merger» and are now calling the potential combination a «partnership in a new company that will ultimately define the product.»

Somehow be that as it may, if your ethics allow, you should pray that the Ryder Cup is at the epicenter of the “product”. Otherwise, it's really Rahmageddon.