LIV Golf’s Patrick Reed has damaged ranks to say he’d welcome a return to the PGA Tour with open arms regardless of constructing himself a status as one of many circuit’s best villains.
The 2018 Masters champion turned a controversial determine after he discovered himself on the centre of dishonest claims on a number of events, most notably within the Bahamas in 2019 when he was discovered to have illegally improved his lie in a bunker.
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Dishonest allegations apart, Reed was thought-about one of many PGA Tour’s most abrasive personalities, whereas his spouse was broadly thought-about to be behind a pro-Reed burner account on X that might assault his critics.
His status on the PGA Tour was then rubber-stamped when he jumped ship to hitch the Saudi-backed LIV Golf on a bumper deal. In 2022, the 12 months he joined, Reed was estimated by Forbes to have pocketed US$37 million (A$55m) for the 12 months.
However within the wake of Brooks Koepka’s bombshell return to the PGA Tour from LIV Golf, Reed has mentioned he’d be prepared to make the identical transfer sooner or later.
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Requested a couple of hypothetical return whereas taking part in the Dubai Invitational, he mentioned: “I imply, in fact; if it had been as much as me, I’d play in every single place.”
Outdoors of taking part in on LIV Golf’s world tour, Reed additionally turned out for 10 DP World Tour and 4 Asian Tour occasions in 2025.
“I’m already taking part in on three excursions, why not add another?” he mentioned with fun.
“I all the time loved my time on the market on the PGA Tour.”
Reed then went additional, admitting that LIV Golf isn’t the world’s premiere tour in a transfer that’s positive to go down poorly with its Saudi backers.
“Let’s be sincere, on the market, it’s (the PGA Tour) the very best tour on this planet. Have a look at what they’ve performed in golf… I might see myself taking part in there sooner or later once more. However proper now, you simply by no means know; the whole lot’s so fluid.”
The PGA Tour this month opened a shock door to sure LIV Golf members desperate to make a return.
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They introduced a Returning Member Program — a one-time supply that got here with heavy penalties, mainly the barring of incomes any fairness within the Tour for at the very least 5 years.
The deal, nevertheless, had highly-specific eligibility standards that meant the one eligible LIV Golf members had been Koepka, Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Smith as they’d received a serious after 2021.
Reed’s sole main got here in 2018.
“Proper now, it’s not even a call,” Reed mentioned. “That was for ’22-and-on winners. So, I positively would have to consider it… if that quantity [came] all the way down to 2018,” he mentioned.
“Proper now, it’s arduous to say actually what we’re going to do or something like that. Proper now, the most important factor is attempting to play some good golf these [two] weeks, not solely to solidify myself out right here on DP, however to have momentum going into the 12 months.”
Reed doubled down saying he has “all the time wished to be a worldwide participant”, which implies at the very least taking part in on the DP World Tour.
The DP World Tour at present fines its members who tee it up in a conflicting LIV Golf occasion. LIV Golf had reportedly been footing the invoice for its fined stars, however will achieve this not in 2026, that means Reed must pay himself.
Even so, he made his alternative clear.
“Me travelling and taking part in world wide… it helps this tour, but additionally it’s one thing I’ve all the time held true to my coronary heart and wished to do. So, if [paying the fines is] what it takes, that’s what it takes,” he mentioned.