DORAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Jordan Spieth is like everyone else in golf right now. When trying to figure out if LIV golfers who left the PGA Tour will try to return, he doesn\u2019t mind saying he has no idea.<\/p>\n
Nobody does.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s just too many unknowns for me to have a good gauge on what would happen,\u201d Spieth said Thursday.<\/p>\n
The announcement that Saudi Arabia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund will stop funding LIV Golf after this year means some of the biggest names in the sport \u2014 Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Smith among them \u2014 may aim to return to the PGA Tour at some point, much in the same way that Brooks Koepka has and Patrick Reed likely will.<\/p>\n
It was, as would be expected, a major talking point at the Cadillac Championship on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there\u2019s a system for Brooks and a system for Patrick Reed, does that stay the same for guys in the same category as those two coming back or does it change now? Does it change for guys who sued and dropped their membership?\u201d Spieth asked. <\/p>\n
DeChambeau, for example, was among players who filed an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour in August 2022. That lawsuit, along with a countersuit by the PGA Tour, was dismissed a year later.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s just a lot of different things that happened over the last four years for that,\u201d Spieth said. \u201dI\u2019m kind of glad I\u2019m not in that room, and I trust the guys that are in that room to make the right decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the guys who will be in the room \u2014 but isn\u2019t yet \u2014 is newly elected Player Advisory Council chairman Lucas Glover, who begins his four-year term on the board in January. It\u2019s possible that by then, whatever needs to be decided will be an afterthought.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will never begrudge anybody for making a decision for the betterment of their career, their life, whatever that may be,\u201d Glover said. \u201cBut do I think they should abide by the pathways back and pay the same penalties that the previous people have paid, absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Koepka\u2019s return, for example, came with stipulations including a $5 million donation to various charities that he and the tour selected, no access to PGA Tour equity shares for five years and no FedEx Cup bonus money he might earn this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s always been pathways back with penalty, so yeah, sure, it can be done, as we have seen,\u201d Glover said. \u201cIt\u2019s already happened a couple times. I\u2019m sure the tour is working diligently to figure all that out. I\u2019m not privy to those phone calls.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brian Harman said he\u2019s still operating under the belief that golf fans want to see the best players competing in one place.<\/p>\n
\u201cTime heals all wounds,\u201d Harman said. \u201cThere\u2019s still some sentiment out here, especially with all the lawsuit stuff, that stuff\u2019s going to be tough to get past. We play with all those guys in the majors, so I think there should be a path back.\u201d<\/p>\n
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AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n
Tim Reynolds, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DORAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Jordan Spieth is like everyone else in golf right now. When trying to figure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-639762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}