Jon Rahm has put a number on his way back to the PGA Tour, and it is the number Brooks Koepka already paid.

Speaking Tuesday at the DP World Tour’s Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship, Rahm said he would accept the same conditions Koepka took in January to return from LIV Golf: forfeiting player equity for five years, losing eligibility for the $100 million FedEx Cup bonus pool, and donating $5 million to charity.

“If I got offered exactly the same penalties as him, I probably would do it, yes,” Rahm told Sky Sports.

He does not expect the offer to come. Rahm said he has not yet had a discussion with the PGA Tour about a path back for 2027, citing the recent birth of his fourth child, and that he “seriously” doubts the same deal is on the table.

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The Rolapp problem

The PGA Tour’s position has hardened since Koepka walked through the door.

Chief executive Brian Rolapp, who ran the Returning Member Program for a short window at the start of 2026, has described it as “one-time” and said in August there are no current plans to revive it. Koepka was the only player to take the deal; Rahm turned it down at the time.

That is the gap between what Rahm says he would accept now and what he is likely to be offered. The Masters and US Open champion left LIV Golf last month after three seasons, walking away from more than $100 million in remaining compensation rather than sign on for the league’s revamped format.

“I wasn’t thrilled with the changes they were doing to 2.0, and I just wasn’t willing to follow that path,” Rahm said at the Aldar press conference, reported by Yahoo Sports.

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He described LIV’s new direction as moving away from the team element that had defined the league in his three seasons there.

DP World Tour schedule in 2027

If no PGA Tour path opens, 2027 is already mapped out.

Rahm is a member of the DP World Tour and intends to play a full schedule there next year while he waits to see whether the tour position changes. He also said that if the only route back involves serving a one-year suspension, he can live with that, because the DP World Tour schedule gives him somewhere to play while the clock runs down.

Whether that is enough to prompt the PGA Tour to reopen the program is a separate question. Rolapp has so far resisted making an exception for individual LIV returners, and Rahm would be, by some margin, the biggest name to test that stance. He is currently inside the world’s top five.

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The Aldar Championship runs at Yas Links through Sunday, and Rahm is in the field.

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