Brooks Koepka breaks silence on claim he’s rejoining PGA Tour

Last week, a golf legend claimed that five-time major winner and current LIV Golf pro Brooks Koepka was planning to leave LIV to rejoin the PGA Tour. Now, Koepka is breaking his silence on the matter.

In an interview with Seattle radio station KJR 93.3 FM, World Golf Hall of Famer Fred Couples claimed he regularly spoke with Koepka, and that based on those conversations he feels the five-time major champion is ready to come back to the PGA Tour.

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“I talk to Brooks Koepka all the time. I love Brooks Koepka. And, I’m not going to say anything extra except I talk to him all the time — where are you playing next and, you know, when you going and all this stuff,” Couples told KJR 93.3 FM, “And he wants to come back, I will say that. I believe he really wants to come back and play the [PGA] Tour.”

Given the ongoing negotiations around a potential reunification between the PGA Tour and LIV, Couples’ comments sent shockwaves through the game. Koepka is one of LIV’s best and most prominent players, along with Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm. If the PGA Tour were to steal him back from LIV, which he joined in 2022, it would be a major coup.

Phil Mickelson took to X and called Couples’ comments a “low class jerk move.” But we hadn’t heard anything from Koepka about Couples’ claim. That is until now.

Koepka speaks out on LIV status

On Wednesday, Koepka sat down for a press conference ahead of the LIV Golf Singapore event, and he was asked to “clear the air” about his status regarding LIV and the PGA Tour.

First, he confirmed that he does indeed talk to Couples often, and Couples even texted Koepka after his comments went public last week.

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“Yeah, Fred texted me after, I guess, the comments came out. I don’t know when it was. Sometime last week,” Koepka revealed. “Yeah, everybody seems to have their own opinion and no one asks me. I talked to Fred quite a bit, but we don’t go too much into detail about what’s going on.”

After that, Koepka took on the main question at hand: was he planning to leave LIV and go back to the PGA Tour? While he didn’t confirm the news, he notably did not offer a complete denial either. Instead, he said he doesn’t know which Tour he will play on in 2026.

“Like I’ve said before, I’m not in those rooms. I’ve got a contract obligation out here to fulfill, and then we’ll see what happens. I don’t know where I’m going, so I don’t know how everybody else does,” Koepka said. “Right now I’m just focused on how do I play better, how do I play better in the majors, how does this team win, and then we’ll figure out next year and how to play better again. It’s the same thing. It’s just a revolving cycle. I’ve got nothing. Everybody else seems to know more than I do.”

Latest on PGA Tour-LIV deal

Just a few weeks ago, it seemed like a final deal between the PGA Tour and PIF was in the offing. Both Jay Monahan and Tiger Woods suggested we could see LIV pros in PGA Tour events before the end of 2025. Some believed it would happen as early as this week’s Players Championship.

But Players week is here, and Koepka and the rest of LIV’s stars are halfway across the world. When Monahan addressed the issue in his Players Championship press conference on Tuesday, he didn’t inspire confidence that a deal will soon be completed, acknowledging the “ebbs and flows” of the negotiations that have now been going on for the better part of the years.

“We’re doing everything that we can to bring the two sides together. That said, we will not do so in a way that diminishes the strength of our platform or the very real momentum we have with our fans and our partners,” Monahan said.

Though a final deal is unlikely to happen soon, golf fans will get to see Koepka, Rahm, DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson and a few other LIV stars compete against the PGA Tour’s best in one month at the 2025 Masters.