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PGA Tour players, including Brooks Koepka, react to recent LIV Golf news amidst ongoing uncertainty. Koepka is still navigating his return to the PGA Tour after years with LIV Golf.
Cameron Young and Scottie Scheffler walk off the tee box during the first round of the Cadillac Championship on Thursday in Miami.getty images
Brooks Koepka got plenty of practice in at Trump National Doral on Thursday. Koepka waited all day at the Cadillac Championship in Miami, staying sharp and hoping a couple of players might withdraw so he could get a tee time as the second alternate.
Jake Knapp withdrew to get Kristoffer Reitan in, but Koepka needed one more player to bow out. That never happened, so Thursday turned out to be a range day for Koepka, who hasnât qualified for a Signature Event since he returned to the PGA Tour and has to rely on playing his way into them (he canât accept sponsor invites). Thatâs because Koepka, who rejoined the PGA Tour this year via the Returning Member Program after 3 1/2 years at LIV Golf, is still in the penalty box.
He didnât get in this weekâs tournament, but heâs in next weekâs alternate-field event in Myrtle Beach as a final tune-up before the PGA Championship, a tournament heâs won three times.
Koepka paid a hefty price to return to the PGA Tour. But what about his former LIV colleagues?
âI think having Brooks back has been great,â Cameron Young told reporters on Thursday, after he shot an eight-under 64 to take an early lead at the Cadillac Championship. âBut honestly itâs not for me to decide; I donât know what any of those guys are thinking about doing. I donât know whatâs going to happen with LIV.â
On Thursday, LIV Golf released a statement saying itâs focusing on securing long-term financial partners for its future. A couple of hours later the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which has bankrolled the league since its inception, said what had been rumored for weeks: âPIF has made the decision to fund LIV Golf only for the remainder of the 2026 season.â
So what happens to LIV now? Or its players? These are questions but without immediate answers. Although players at Doral were asked how they believe PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp should handle it if any plan to return to the PGA Tour this year or in the future. ( Thursday ârepresentatives for multiple LIV players have contacted the PGA Tour to discuss a potential return.â)
PGA Tour players are expressing uncertainty and concern regarding the implications of the latest LIV Golf developments.
Brooks Koepka is currently unable to accept sponsor invites and must qualify for tournaments after rejoining the PGA Tour from LIV Golf.
The Cadillac Championship serves as an important opportunity for players like Koepka to stay sharp and prepare for upcoming major tournaments.
Brooks Koepka is set to compete in an alternate-field event in Myrtle Beach next week as a final preparation for the PGA Championship.
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Brian Harman said he thinks there should be a path back to the Tour for them.
âThereâs been guys that are going to come back. I canât speak individually to each of them. Seems like theyâre treating them all as a case-by-case basis,â Harman said. âI would think that the fans want everyone to be playing together and, you know, time heals all wounds. Thereâs still some sentiment out here, especially with all the lawsuit stuff, that stuffâs 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.â
The âlawsuit stuff,â Harman referred to is the antitrust lawsuit a handful of LIV members â Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson and Talor Gooch, among them â 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.
âWe were very explicit that that was a one-time situational Returning Member Program, and I stand by that,â Rolapp said at the Players last month. âI donât 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 heâs 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.â
Still, Harman reminded LIV Golf is not over.
âThey could secure funding from somewhere else and keep going,â he said. âThey have got a lot of big name players over there, guys that move the needle. Until itâs all done, until youâve got guys that are actually calling and trying to come back to the Tour, itâs not really a problem that weâre dealing with currently.â
Not everyone might be so welcoming though. Wyndham Clark said back in January, not long after the Koepka return was announced, âitâs kind of frustrating that heâs 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.â
Although on Thursday, some players simply decided to stay out of it.
âI just got off the golf course,â said World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, following his 71. âI donât know what you want from me.â [Laughs]
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