Tour created last week and announced on Monday<\/a> in an effort to allow Koepka and a select few others to get back to the Tour. Players who have either won a major championship or The Players Championship between 2022 and 2025 are eligible to apply for reinstatement \u2014 which only applies to Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Cam Smith \u2014 before Feb. 2.<\/p>\nAs part of the penalties handed down, Koepka will have to make a $5 million charitable donation. He will not be eligible for FedExCup bonus money in 2026, he can\u2019t receive sponsor exemptions into signature events and he won\u2019t be able to receive equity grants in the Tour over the next five years.<\/p>\n
In total, the Tour estimates that Koepka could miss out on anywhere between $50 to $85 million in potential earnings.<\/p>\n
That plan was approved by the PGA Tour\u2019s board last week. Koepka, per the Associated Press, spoke with new PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp on the phone on Thursday night and then showed up by himself to the Tour\u2019s headquarters on Friday to further discuss the plan.<\/p>\n
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With how his time with LIV Golf was going \u2014 Koepka had publicly complained about the league last summer before the two sides officially split in December with one year left on his deal \u2014 Koepka wanted out. Even with what it\u2019s costing him, he clearly thinks it\u2019s worth it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI needed to be there with my family over the last few months. I needed to be closer to home,\u201d Koepka said. \u201cI was able to get out of the LIV contract, everything lined up perfectly and I was able to get back on Tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy and grateful it was able to come to this.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, how will he be welcomed back?<\/p>\n
Koepka is set to make his official return later this month at the Farmers Insurance Open. He said he will play in the Phoenix Open next month, too, which is where he won his first Tour event back in 2015.<\/p>\n
Koepka has won nine times on Tour in his career, most recently at the PGA Championship in 2023. That marked his fifth major championship win.<\/p>\n
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While the tone regarding LIV Golf has undoubtedly shifted in recent months and years \u2014 it\u2019s nowhere near as hostile as it once was when the Saudi Arabian-backed venture first started \u2014 Koepka knows he is still going to have to put in some time with Tour members in the near future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of work to do with some of the players,\u201d Koepka said. \u201cThere\u2019s definitely guys who are happy, and definitely guys who will be angry \u2026 If anyone is upset, I need to rebuild those relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n
When it comes time for his outing at Torrey Pines in a few weeks, Koepka knows it\u2019ll be a weird feeling.<\/p>\n
But he\u2019s ready for it. And after seeing how everything played out between the Tour and LIV Golf, he had to have known this was coming.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first week I\u2019ll be a little bit nervous,\u201d Koepka said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot going on than just golf. I\u2019ll be glad to put the first week behind me \u2014 dealing with the media, dealing with the players, and then getting some of those tougher conversations. But I\u2019m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAm I nervous? Yes. Am I excited? Yes. In a weird way, I want to have those conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooks Koepka understands the punishment he\u2019s facing in order to facilitate his return back from LIV Golf. It\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[18939,427,10658,3332,195201,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-404784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-brooks-koepka","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-liv-golf","11":"tag-pga-tour","12":"tag-ross-parker","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}