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Jon Rahm has ruled out starting a YouTube channel in the near future despite a growing interest in producing content and an admiration for the space.
The two-time major winner began to appear in several YouTube videos including a match with Wesley Bryan against YouTube influencer Grant Horvat in Arizona earlier this year.
Rahm was engaging and had a good rapport with the YouTube golfers and said he had even investigated diving into the scene but ultimately it boiled down to time constraints.
“I’ve talked to quite a few people, Bryson being one of them, at that point as the first and only player to have gone that route,” Rahm said overnight at LIV Golf UK. “I talked to him in Nashville last year, and he gave a little bit of his ideas.
“I’ve talked to Phil since then. I’ve talked to Grant Horvat. I’ve talked to Wesley Bryan. It’s mainly come through the support when I’ve done videos with them and people saying how good they think I would be, and I do love it, and I think it’s a lot of fun, and I do enjoy putting different parts of myself out there.
“The main argument, and I can’t stress this enough, against doing it is that I just don’t think I would have the time to balance family, golf and YouTube. I have three young kids; at some point I just don’t think I would have the time to do it. It would be too much of a sacrifice of either me practising or family time. As of right now, that’s not something I’m willing to do.”
Rahm said Bryson DeChambeau had transformed the YouTube golf scene with his videos and quests which garner several million views per 40-minute episode.
“In Bryson’s case, no kids, he has all the time in the world to do what he needs to do,” Rahm said. “Phil, his kids are all graduated from college, they’re all living their own lives, he has the time to do what he needs to do. Me being in the middle, I feel like I would have to choose two of the three, and there’s two I’m not willing to give up, so that’s the main reason I haven’t done it.
As of right now I’m perfectly happy appearing on channels. I’m perfectly happy playing with those guys and in a way getting exposed to their audience. But I don’t know if I would yet find the energy in me to try to find the time to do a channel myself. But that’s something that’s on my mind because I enjoy it.”
