Brooks Koepka has responded to the rumors that he wants to leave LIV Golf.
Two weeks ago, Fred Couples was on a radio show and said he had spoken with Koepka recently, and the former Masters champ said the latter expressed his desire to return to the PGA Tour. The comments even prompted Phil Mickelson to chime in on a now-deleted social media post.
“He wants to come back. I will say that I believe he really wants to come back and play the Tour,” Couples said. “But for me personally, there are a lot of guys that are going to be pushed out…I don’t know how you get an elevated event with 72 people and bring seven superstars in. What do you tell those other seven? Bye-bye.”
As reunification of men’s professional golf nears, more and more rumors have come out about top LIV players expressing their desires to return to the PGA Tour and play in some of the signature events. Last week, Bryson DeChambeau shut down those rumors for himself, saying he was excited about the future of LIV Golf. On Wednesday ahead of LIV Golf Singapore, the fourth event of its 2025 season, Koepka was asked about Boom Boom’s comments.
His answer was quite different than DeChambeaus.
“Yeah, Fred texted me after, I guess, the comments came out,” Koepka said. “I don’t know when it was. Sometime last week. 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. 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.”
Koepka’s answer definitely leaves the door open on a possible return, but he’s also stating the obvious. He, nor most players, have any idea what professional golf will look like in a year, let alone three to six months. As negotiations continue between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which finances LIV Golf, the landscape of what golf will be in the future continues to evolve.
So for players like Koepka, a five-time major champion, how could he predict the future? He’s for sure leaving the door open on the possibility of returning, however.
“I don’t know where I’m going, so I don’t know how everybody else does,” he 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.”
Koepka finished T-7 in Adelaide but also has a T-33 and T-35 in three starts this season.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Brooks Koepka leaves door open on leaving LIV Golf after contract ends
