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.
“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.
“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.”
