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Reed, a nine-time winner on Tour and 2018 Masters champion, announced Wednesday that he will compete full-time on the DP World Tour this season before rejoining the PGA Tour as a past champion in 2027.<\/p>\n
Unlike Koepka, and the three other players who had been singled out for having won a major or a Players Championship since 2022, Reed was placed in line to return according to the Tour\u2019s regulations. In fact, he\u2019s not even the first player in line. Hudson Swafford, Kevin Na and Pat Perez have all asked to be reinstated as members since leaving LIV Golf.<\/p>\n
This outcome is as nuanced as the manufactured program that facilitated Koepka\u2019s return.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, players at Torrey Pines said the right thing as news of Reed\u2019s returned spread.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou bring back another incredible personality to the PGA Tour. A major champion, a world class player, it\u2019s amazing,\u201d Keegan Bradley said. \u201cI have a lot of faith in [Tour CEO] Brian Rolapp and the board that they are going to do the right thing. You need to capitalize when great players want to come back.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m welcoming everyone who wants to come back. I don\u2019t have any hard feelings towards them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some Tour types even used the moment to take a victory lap.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI think people want to be on the PGA Tour. It\u2019s the best Tour in the world, the most competitive Tour,\u201d J.J. Spaun said. \u201cI think Patrick will be a good asset to this Tour and I think it just speaks volumes to where the Tour\u2019s headed. I think to add even more competition for us that have been here while they left, and adding Brooks and Patrick now, it\u2019s just strengthening our Tour, which I think is great.\u201d<\/p>\n
Left unsaid Wednesday at the Farmers Insurance Open, where Koepka will mark his return to the PGA Tour as a member, was how the Tour deftly avoided a potentially costly misstep by carving out a similarly expedited return for Reed.<\/p>\n
By putting Reed in lockstep with the already established regulations for a potential return to the Tour, officials sent a clear message to both its membership and those at LIV who may be mulling a return of their own. Fast-tracking Reed for a return like Koepka would have undermined the credibility Rolapp & Co. created with the Returning Member Program and likely rankled some members who are, frankly, not P-Reed fans.<\/p>\n
The move also makes the path back to the Tour for those who tested the LIV waters abundantly clear, a journey that just a few months ago was shrouded in uncertainty.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a message that\u2019s impossible to ignore regardless of which side of golf\u2019s divide you reside.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs you\u2019re seeing, kind of the dominoes are starting to fall, maybe those guys on the LIV tour are not that happy out there and the grass is not greener on the other side,\u201d Harris English said. \u201cThey\u2019re seeing the PGA Tour getting stronger and having more success, and kind of seeing that money\u2019s not the end all, be all.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike that doesn\u2019t fulfill them. They\u2019re still competitors, they\u2019re competitive people and they love playing in the biggest events against the best players in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
After 3 \u00bd contentious years, no one at the Tour is cracking open the champaign or hoisting \u201cMission Accomplished\u201d banners in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, and Reed\u2019s return feels more like a single move on the board than checkmate, but in a game that thrives on momentum it\u2019s clear which side won January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 It remains to be seen if Brooks Koepka\u2019s departure from LIV Golf will create cascading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-436107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436107","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=436107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}