Brooks Koepka’s time with LIV Golf is done but how his potential return to the PGA Tour will be facilitated, if at all, remains up in the air.
Koepka left the PGA Tour in order to join LIV Golf back in June 2022, and despite winning five times in two years, his form regressed badly in 2025.
It really didn’t surprise anyone when Koepka’s exit from LIV was announced on Tuesday night.
The 35-year-old Floridian didn’t look happy out on the golf course during the 2025 LIV Golf season, and he’ll now be keen to return to the PGA Tour.
Is this the end of LIV Golf?
The path back to the PGA Tour for Koepka, and anyone else who wants to take that route, will be full of obstacles, and rightly so.
However, Harry Higgs said he’d welcome Koepka back to the PGA Tour with open arms.
If the five-time major champion does manage to return to the promised land, whenever that may be, he might not be so warmly welcomed back by everyone.
Major champion’s comments on LIV golfers could make Brooks Koepka’s return very awkward
Koepka clearly still has plenty of support from certain players on the PGA Tour.
Michael Kim suggested on Tuesday that Koepka is very popular amongst the PGA Tour players.
However, Lucas Glover is certainly someone who won’t be laying out the red carpet for Koepka, if he does return at some point in the future.
Glover ripped into LIV Golf when making a statement about why he never wants to play alongside their players ever again.
He said: “I don’t want to play with them. I don’t think they should be back here, I don’t want them here. They made their decision, and I don’t blame any of them. I don’t care, but they also went away from this tour, and they chose to.
“As a PGA Tour player, and somebody who dreamed of playing on the PGA Tour, and have poured my heart and soul into this tour and game for 21 seasons now, I don’t want somebody who chose another path – a path of less resistance, I don’t want them back competing and taking part of my pie and these kids’ pie who are trying to make it now.
“Yeah, the top four, five six players over there, if they were playing on the PGA Tour it would benefit all of us, because our TV deal in 2030 would be great.
“Does it behove us as tour members who have equity now to grow our sport by bringing some of those guys back?
“I’m having a hard time with it and I got some good advice from somebody who’s had the same issues as me, you’ve got to take emotion out of it, but it’s still very hard for me.“
Whenever Koepka does return to the PGA Tour, a grouping with Glover would make for interesting viewing, wouldn’t it!
When Brooks Koepka could actually return to the PGA Tour
Every golfer who left to join LIV was a handed five-year ban from the PGA Tour, according to Hudson Swafford.
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So if that is actually correct, then Kopeka will be able to return to the PGA Tour in 2027.
How will that work though? Will he immediately be given full playing privileges? Will he have to go to Q-school?
Or will the answer lie somewhere in the middle?
Perhaps Koepka will start with conditional status and have to work his way back to the top.
That would be the fairest outcome.
Perhaps Koepka will opt to play a full DP World Tour schedule in 2026 in order to gain world ranking points and get his game in shape for 2027.
The five-time major winner’s exit from LIV is a big blow for the Saudi-backed outfit and seeing him return to the PGA Tour at some point in the future will definitely be hard for them to stomach.
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