The two-time major champion, Jon Rahm, woke up on January 9, 2026, to find a cold-call DM from a Turkey-based hair restoration company, Esthetic Hair Turkey, sitting in his inbox.  The company, boasting over 50,000 clients and a decade in the business, pitched Rahm on a potential collaboration.

“Is a hair transplant something you’d be interested in — now or in the near future?” the company wrote. Rahm disagreed, but he knew two guys who might.

“Thanks so much for reaching out,” Rahm wrote back. “I think I’ve got a few more years before I need to schedule an appointment. In the meantime, I’d be happy to connect you with two friends of mine… Tyrrell Hatton and Shane Lowry.”

Rahm shared the exchange on X, noting the DM arrived after his appearance on GOLF’s Subpar podcast — the show’s 300th episode, published January 7. The algorithm identified keywords and determined that the Spaniard was ripe for outreach. It miscalculated badly.

Fans piled into the comments with glee. “Epic roast,” one user wrote. “Will be on the lookout for new lettuce on the boys.” Another called it the “best thing we’ve read all day.” A third simply noted that “help is just a few taps away” for the targets in question.

The targets of Rahm’s deflection were no accident. Hatton, his Legion XIII teammate, has built a reputation for self-deprecating humor almost as sharp as his iron play. At the 2025 Masters, he called himself “stupid” and “foolish” after lipping out a one-footer on the 17th. The man wears a cap more often than not, and the internet has long noticed.

Lowry, meanwhile, remains one of Rahm’s closest friends in golf. The Irishman competes on both the PGA Tour and DP World Tour, his beard far more prominent than whatever sits beneath his cap. The two share three Ryder Cups, 2021, 2023, and 2025, forging a bond that apparently includes the right to publicly volunteer each other for hair restoration consultations.

The timing adds another layer. On the very same Subpar episode, Rahm discussed the heckling his group endured at Bethpage. American fans targeted him, Hatton, and Sepp Straka over their physiques and hairlines. “Two of them with a very far back hairline,” Rahm admitted, noting the crowd’s “chants of hairline appointments.”

So when a Turkish clinic slid into his DMs days later, Rahm already had hairlines on the brain — and two names ready to deploy.

Rahm’s quip lands differently when you consider how common hair restoration has become among professional golfers. Tiger Woods is widely believed to have undergone the procedure at some point in his career, though he has never publicly confirmed it. Observers have noted the evolution of his hairline over the years, fueling persistent speculation. Turkey, in particular, has emerged as a global hub for the industry — a detail that makes Esthetic Hair Turkey’s cold outreach less random and more reflective of a booming market targeting high-profile athletes.

That willingness to throw teammates under the bus also reveals something about the dynamic Rahm has built beyond the scorecard.

Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII chemistry spills onto social media

This is what the Rahm fans rarely see. On the course, the Spaniard carries intensity like a second golf bag — fist pumps, fiery glares, an unwillingness to concede anything. But his bond with Hatton tells a different story.

The two first crossed paths as Ryder Cup rookies in Paris in 2018, exchanging barely 10 words that week. By 2021 at Whistling Straits, they partnered in Fourballs, halving a match against Bryson DeChambeau and Scottie Scheffler while discovering shared interests — Call of Duty sessions and similarly fiery on-course temperaments. The 2023 Rome Ryder Cup cemented the friendship, with Foursomes victories over Scheffler-Sam Burns and Xander Schauffele-Patrick Cantlay.

When Rahm joined LIV Golf and founded Legion XIII, recruiting Hatton was a priority. Since then, they’ve become a dominant pairing — winning their debut at Mayakoba and capturing the 2025 Michigan Team Championship via playoff. The increased time together through practice rounds, team dinners, and chipping contests has deepened their camaraderie in ways the PGA Tour schedule never allowed.

After Rahm clinched the 2025 LIV Golf Individual Championship and Hatton secured his Ryder Cup spot on merit, the two celebrated with what Hatton described as a “messy night” involving wine, gin and tonics, Amaretto sours, margaritas, and a mysterious strawberry-lemonade-vodka concoction. Hatton suffered the worst hangover. Rahm, naturally, remembered every detail.

That’s the context behind the hair transplant joke. You don’t throw a teammate to the Turkish clinics unless you’ve shared locker rooms, pressure putts, and questionable cocktail decisions with them.

Neither Hatton nor Lowry had responded publicly at the time of writing. But in a fractured golf landscape — LIV versus PGA, fines versus appeals, eligibility battles looming — some things remain universal.

Roasting your friends’ hairlines is one of them.