{"id":403462,"date":"2026-01-10T04:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403462\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T04:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:40:09","slug":"brooks-koepka-applies-to-return-to-pga-tour-after-leaving-liv-golf-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403462\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks Koepka applies to return to PGA Tour after leaving LIV Golf \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooks Koepka, just weeks after his split with LIV Golf, has applied for reinstatement with the PGA Tour. ESPN was the first to report the move.<\/p>\n

The five-time major winner has been with LIV Golf since the summer of 2022, serving as one of the marquee names for the Saudi-backed league. <\/p>\n

RELATED: LIV Golf unveils huge news about Brooks Koepka<\/a><\/p>\n

Koepka secured arguably the biggest win for LIV by capturing the 2023 PGA Championship, proof that players could remain competitively relevant after jumping to the circuit. However, despite a nine-figure contract, Koepka never fully aligned himself with the league, even acknowledging at the 2023 Masters that he might not have defected had his game and health been in a better state the previous year. He never wore LIV\u2019s team outfits and was vocal in his frustrations with LIV\u2019s struggles to garner an audience. Although he still had a year on his deal, Koepka parted ways with LIV days before Christmas last month.<\/p>\n

The process for Koepka\u2019s return is unclear. The PGA Tour has given one-year bans to non-members for playing in LIV events, but several LIV players who are past PGA Tour members have said they believe their punishments are longer. Koepka\u2019s situation could be different. Unlike Bryson DeChambeau and Phil Mickelson, Koepka was not among the players who filed a lawsuit against the PGA Tour, a move that has still left hard feelings between tour leadership and current membership. Koepka is also considered in good standing with other tour stars, particularly Rory McIlroy, who earlier this month advocated for Koepka to return.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Koepka\u2019s return could be an inflection point in professional golf\u2019s civil war. LIV\u2019s deep coffers continue to make it a viable threat, especially as the league petitions for world-ranking reconsideration. But Jon Rahm has been the only star who has defected in the past four years, and LIV has struggled to make itself relevant with the golf populace. Since talks with LIV\u2019s financial backer, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, hit a wall in the American spring of 2025, the tour\u2019s brass feels it has strengthened its position. Beyond Rahm (coveted for competitive integrity), DeChambeau (valued for commercial magnetism) and Koepka (for his major championship resume), no substantive appetite exists to reintegrate other LIV members. There has been the belief at tour headquarters that, should the tour extract one from the Rahm\/DeChambeau\/Koepka triumvirate, it could serve as a blow that LIV would be unable to answer. In short, there are other matters that could factor into the Koepka decision.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Is the PGA Tour being excessively cruel in disciplining anyone who plays in the LIV Q School?<\/a><\/p>\n

Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation have told Golf Digest that the decision will ultimately be made by new PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp. He is expected to take guidance from his Future Competition Committee (helmed by Tiger Woods), along with the tour\u2019s policy board.<\/p>\n

Koepka is coming off one of his more frustrating years in 2025, missing the cut in three of the four majors. Though he is outside the top 200 in the Official World Golf Ranking, he is still eligible for all majors this year thanks to a five-year exemption from the 2023 PGA Championship win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooks Koepka, just weeks after his split with LIV Golf, has applied for reinstatement with the PGA Tour.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[47034,4225,64,63,62094,73434,755,138747,14239,44,1747,114787,85],"class_list":["post-403462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-application","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brian-rolapp","tag-brooks-koepka","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-liv-golf","tag-news","tag-pga-tour","tag-reinstatement","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}