‘Don't know what's going to happen': PGA Tour players react to LIV news

Brian Harman said he thinks there should be a path back to the Tour for them.

“There’s been guys that are going to come back. I can’t speak individually to each of them. Seems like they’re treating them all as a case-by-case basis,” Harman said. “I would think that the fans want everyone to be playing together and, you know, time heals all wounds. There’s still some sentiment out here, especially with all the lawsuit stuff, that stuff’s going to be tough to get past. We play with all those guys in the majors, so, yeah, I think there should be a path back.”

The “lawsuit stuff,” Harman referred to is the antitrust lawsuit a handful of LIV members — Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson and Talor Gooch, among them — filed against the PGA Tour four years ago.

Some players also had a chance to return via the Returning Member Program, like Koepka did, but that deadline has since passed.

“We were very explicit that that was a one-time situational Returning Member Program, and I stand by that,” Rolapp said at the Players last month. “I don’t know the contractual relationship or the terms of others on the LIV tour, and they have contracts and those should be honored. But we do have a pathway; Patrick Reed is clearly taking advantage of that pathway as he’s out of his contractual commitment. And so I think the LIV players know what those pathways are, and until they change, those are the pathways.”

Still, Harman reminded LIV Golf is not over.

“They could secure funding from somewhere else and keep going,” he said. “They have got a lot of big name players over there, guys that move the needle. Until it’s all done, until you’ve got guys that are actually calling and trying to come back to the Tour, it’s not really a problem that we’re dealing with currently.”

Not everyone might be so welcoming though. Wyndham Clark said back in January, not long after the Koepka return was announced, “it’s kind of frustrating that he’s able to get the cake and also eat it. And if you would have told me that I could have gone for a year-and-a-half, make a boatload of money and then be able to come back, play on the Tour, I think almost everyone would have done that.”

Although on Thursday, some players simply decided to stay out of it.

“I just got off the golf course,” said World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, following his 71. “I don’t know what you want from me.” [Laughs]

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