Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka has rejoined the PGA Tour after quitting LIV Golf, and Rickie Fowler and Wyndham Clark have both had their say…
Brooks Koepka almost certainly doesn’t want to be the center of attention. But he better get used to it for a while.
Koepka finally gave in to his ‘buyer’s remorse’ last week when he announced that – after four years, five wins, and a fifth major – he was quitting LIV with intentions to return to the PGA Tour. That was confirmed on Monday, along with a number of financial punishments, as well as the newly-created Returning Member Program as the powers that be at Ponte Vedra Beach went for the jugular.
Of course, it’s become the week’s big talking point in the golf world, overshadowing LIV Golf’s 2026 preview event in Florida.
Tiger Woods had his say. Bryson DeChambeau had his say. Sergio Garcia had his say. And now PGA Tour stars are starting to have their say.
Notably, in the past couple of days, Rickie Fowler and Wyndham Clark. And the pair are locking horns on the subject.
Fowler, having helped his New York Golf Club team to a comfortable victory over Woods’ Jupiter Links in their first TGL match of the 2026 season, said he thinks “it’s great” that Koepka will be back competing on the PGA Tour this year.
Then a rather surprising admission. “He’s wanted to be back playing with us for quite a while,” Fowler remarked. “I’m very happy that we’re back in the position where we’re at now.”
Clark, meanwhile, is not quite looking at it the same way.
Perhaps, understandably, that had he taken the huge signing on check dangled by LIV Golf, he would have been able to do the same as Koepka and return to the PGA Tour under the Returning Member Program.
“I personally really like Brooks, and I think it’s ultimately really good for the PGA Tour,” Clark said on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio. “But also a guy that had an opportunity to go to LIV, it’s kind of frustrating that he’s able to get the cake and also eat it.
“If you would have told me that I could have gone for a year-and-a-half, make a boatload of money and then be able to come back, play on the tour, I think almost everyone would have done that.”
Koepka returns to the PGA Tour having made just shy of $50 million on LIV Golf – which puts him seventh in the league’s all-time career earnings.