Brooks Koepka and his fellow LIV Golf players have time to hone their skills for the next event, with LIV Golf Miami not taking place until early next month.
Golf fans think Koepka wants a PGA Tour return, with his LIV Golf future having been discussed in detail by many in recent times.
Koepka can’t believe how good his putting has been so far this season on LIV Golf, where he sits eighth in the individual standings.
The five-time major champion posted finishes of T33, T7 and T35 before finishing second at LIV Golf Singapore earlier this month.
And Smash GC, of which Koepka is captain, currently sit 12th in the team standings after four tournaments.
When Brooks Koepka said Patrick Reed broke the rules at the 2019 Hero World Challenge
Another former high-profile PGA Tour player in Patrick Reed meanwhile is 29th in the individual standings.
And Reed and Koepka certainly have an intriguing history, with the former once accusing the latter of blatantly breaking the rules during the 2019 Hero World Challenge.
Asked if Reed was cheating after improving his line of play from the bunker during his third round, Koepka told SiriusXM in February 2020: “Yeah. I don’t know what he was doing building sandcastles in the sand.
“You know where your club is. I took three months off and I can promise you I know if I touch sand. It’s one of those things where you know.
“If you look at the video he grazes the sand twice and then he still chops down on it. It’s I guess the Astros are going through that right now and Jimmy Crane said it, he got asked if he was cheating and he said no we just broke the rules.
“I know it’s one of those things where I don’t think, if you play the game you understand the rules and the integrity that goes on and I mean there’s no room for it.
“I think a lot of times too, I think guys and I’ll be honest, I have seen it a couple of times where it’s like whoa.
“I have seen some big names be like whoa that’s not right. I have bit my tongue a lot of times. TV you can’t hide from the cameras and everything and you know, we have bitten our tongue a lot.
“It’s one of those things you know guys have hit it in the rough and all of a sudden they have three wood out and are down there patting it down. It’s interesting. It goes on a little bit more than people think.”
What did Patrick Reed do to break the rules at the 2019 Hero World Challenge?
Reed found himself in trouble in the bunker in Albany in December 2019, when he was taking on the 11th hole of his third round.
The American was tied with US Open champion Gary Woodland on 12-under at the time, with his effort looking good before rolling off the green.
But after analysis from his practice swing, Reed was adjudged to have moved the sand to improve his line of play, for which he was handed a two-stroke penalty.
Speaking afterwards, Reed accepted his punishment, saying: “In the rules of golf, if you improve your lie, whether it’s you set up and the ball moves, or you set up and something breaks, just like you’re taking practice swings, I mean it’s a penalty, so I mean at the end of the day you have to just accept it and move on.”
Both he and Woodland would later resign their lead, with Henrik Stenson edging out Jon Rahm by one shot to lift the trophy as Reed finished third.
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