TYRRELL HATTON on his £40m move to LIV and fight to play in the Ryder Cup... and why rumours of Jon Rahm's unhappiness are 'bull****'
TYRRELL HATTON on his £40m move to LIV and fight to play in the Ryder Cup... and why rumours of Jon Rahm's unhappiness are 'bull****'
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Tyrrell Hatton has been caught a little off-guard. We are in the process of reviewing his season, with all the upheaval, anxieties and successes it brought, but a video playing on Mail Sport’s phone is unfamiliar to him. ‘I’m not sure I’ve seen it before,’ he says and there is a reason for that — he deleted his social media accounts months ago. Which is why he missed the discussion around a piece of footage that spoke to the quality of his game and the heat of his temper.
![[2024 was a year of great change and strong results for Hatton - even if his relationship with 'calm' remained complicated]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/02/22/93690575-0-image-m-130_1735856060916.jpg)
The place was Nashville, the month was June and the occasion was his ninth tournament on the LIV circuit. He would go on to win his first title in three years that week and it was a demolition job — he put six strokes on second place. But the video captured something that happened along the way. Hatton was lining up a putt when the commentator, David Feherty, remarked on how calm he had been. Anyone who follows golf knows why such an observation was worth making and also the risks of doing so.
![[Hatton initially rejected the chance to leave the PGA Tour before linking up with Jon Rahm]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/02/22/93690865-0-image-a-134_1735856344426.jpg)
Because when the putt came up short, a greenside microphone supplied the ingredients for a clip that went viral: ‘Disgusting, disgusting,’ we heard the calm man say. ‘F*** you, wind. F****** shambles. Two in a row, absolutely f***** me.’. Hatton is grinning a little sheepishly. We are sat under the desert sun, in Dubai, and calm has returned for the 33-year-old, if only for a while.
![[Hatton's move to LIV Golf was inevitably shielded to some extent by Rahm's higher-profile defection]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/02/22/93690857-0-image-a-133_1735856337639.jpg)
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