LIV Golf star Brooks Koepka needs to be again on the PGA Tour, in keeping with 1992 Masters champion and former world primary Fred {Couples}.
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5-time main champion Koepka joined LIV in 2022, however {Couples} advised Seattle sports activities radio station KJR 93.3FM that the 34-year-old needs to be competing often towards the likes of Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy once more.
“I talked to Brooks Koepka on a regular basis. I like Brooks Koepka, and I’m not going to say something further besides I talked to him on a regular basis,” {Couples} stated.
“He needs to return again. I’ll say that I imagine he actually needs to return again and play the Tour.”
{Couples}’ feedback after Koepka made a shock look at TGL final week, and as merger talks ramp up because of the discussions between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Funding Fund on the White Home with US President Donald Trump.
The revelation of Koepka’s want for a comeback to the US Tour additionally follows Bryson DeChambeau’s staff shutting down hypothesis that he was taking a look at a future away from LIV Golf.
{Couples} additionally shared his perception that there will likely be minimal locations accessible within the PGA Tour’s elevated occasions like The Gamers Championship for returning LIV stars if reunification reaches that time.
“For me personally, there are a variety of guys which are going to be pushed out,” {Couples} stated.
“I don’t understand how you get an elevated occasion with 72 individuals and convey seven superstars in. What do you inform these different seven? Bye-bye.”
{Couples} has been some of the vocal critics of LIV Golf because it started in 2022, disrupting the lads’s skilled golf panorama.
The 15-time PGA Tour winner has preferred what he has seen within the years since LIV’s emergence with Scottie Scheffler changing into a famous person, and nonetheless simply 28 years outdated, whereas Ludvig Aberg, Collin Morikawa, Tom Kim and Min Woo Lee are all family names and of their 20s.
“It’s succeeding,” {Couples} stated. “The Tour’s age goes quickly decrease and decrease and decrease, so for us to throw them a bone to return again on the Tour…”
{Couples} trailed off however his message was clear. He believes the PGA Tour doesn’t want lots of LIV star’s to return as a part of a merger.