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Rahm, Koepka seek to keep US Open focus amid merger turmoil

Spain’s Jon Rahm speaks to the media prior to the 123rd US Open at Los Angeles Country Club

LOS ANGELES: Jon Rahm says the merger of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf’s Saudi backers has left golfers in limbo, but Brooks Koepka is not daunted by a little “chaos” at this week’s US Open.

The winners of the first two majors of the year — Rahm claimed his second major title at the Masters in April and Koepka bagged his fifth at the PGA Championship last month — were among the many blindsided by the shock announcement last week that the PGA Tour and DP World Tour would join forces with the Saudi Public Investment Fund.

The deal is being billed as one that will end the bitter rift that erupted when the breakaway LIV Golf league launched in…

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