Jon Rahm's LIV Golf endeavour has come to a rather unceremonious end with the Spaniard refusing to sign on to LIV 2.0 for 2027.
A mass exodus of LIV's biggest names is expected, with prize funds set to be drastically reduced as the league is reformed with new investors.
DP World Tour CEO Guy Kinnings has told BBC Sport that players won't be able to retain DP World Tour membership if they continue to play on the new iteration of LIV Golf. Previously, players like Tyrrell Hatton and Rahm kept hold of their DP World Tour membership -- required to be eligible for the Ryder Cup -- and were granted releases to play in LIV Golf events, albeit paying fines each time to do so.
So where does this leave Jon Rahm?
Well, Rahm will return to the DP World Tour full time in 2027. His schedule will likely see him play two or three events in the Middle East at the start of the year before likely heading to South Africa in March to bridge the gap between the US Masters in April.
Rahm would presumably play the Catalunya Championship in his native Spain in May ahead of the PGA Championship, while keeping one eye on the Irish Open and Scottish Open ahead of the Open Championship from St Andrews in July.
Where things are currently unclear for Rahm is how he gets back onto the PGA Tour. Currently, the top 10 players on the DP World Tour's Race to Dubai Rankings earn PGA Tour cards for the following season, something Rahm should have no trouble with, playing a full season on the tour.
However, from 2028, the PGA Tour splits into two separate series. There will be the Championship Series, acting as a tour of 130 players, and the Challenger Series, which will have weekly fields of 144. Each year, the top 20 players on the Challenger Series would win promotion to the Championship Series.
There's a chance that the PGA Tour awards a number of cards to a select number of DP World Tour players to compete on the Championship Series with the rest making the Challenger Series.
Of course, the current agreement between the PGA Tour and DP World Tour is currently being reworked, and 'promotion' to the Challenger Series -- something Rory McIlroy suggested was a glorified Korn Ferry Tour -- might not be as appealing to DP World Tour members, and other pathways to the PGA Tour may need to be considered.
It's not impossible that the PGA Tour offers another bespoke deal to Rahm to fast-track him to the Championship Series for 2028; Rahm, alongside Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau were offered a place on the PGA Tour 12 months ago, with Koepka the only one to take them up on their offer.
It feels unlikely that the PGA Tour would want Rahm on its Challenger Series, or that Rahm would even agree to it, but at the moment, there isn't a path back to the highest level of the game for the Spaniard, whose long-term future remains unclear.
