The state of professional golf is extremely complicated. It has been this way for a while now.
There are two primary tours in the PGA Tour and LIV Golf and we are well past time when a union between the two of them not only seemed possible but felt inevitable.
We are actually so deep into this whole thing that player contracts are starting to reach an expiration point with LIV and that has gotten some attention. You may have noticed that current LIV golfer Brooks Koepka made an appearance at at recent TGL event, a league inhabited by exclusively Tour players, which fed the idea that he may be eyeing a return.
As if that weren’t enough… Fred Couples went on record saying he knows Koepka wants back.
“I talk to Brooks Koepka all the time,” Couples told Seattle’s KJR 93.3 FM on Monday. “I love Brooks Koepka, and I’m not going to say anything extra except I talk to him all the time.
“… He wants to come back. I will say that: I believe he really wants to come back and play the Tour.”
Koepka’s deal with LIV expires at the end of this season. Assuming there is no union between the tours by that point, a safe assumption, then it stands to reason that Koepka could return to the PGA Tour if no one gets in his way. Given his pedigree and five major championships it would be hard to turn him away.
LIV has an event in Hong Kong this weekend where Koepka is slated to play. Perhaps he will address what Couples had to say, or maybe he will let it all linger for now.
We will see.
