the reimagined Tour Championship<\/a> being a two-week match-play finale at elite venues not seen on the PGA Tour in recent history.<\/p>\n\u201cI think fans are clear where they want to see the best golfers competing week in and week out,\u201d Rolapp said. \u201cOur competitive model that we\u2019ve been working on is an attempt to get closer to that standard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Koepka, who played on LIV from 2022 to 2025, left the breakaway league and went to the PGA Tour hoping for a return in January. At the time, the PGA Tour extended that deal to three other players \u2014 Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Smith \u2014 and gave them three weeks to decide.<\/p>\n
If any of those golfers were hoping there was still a table with that offer on it, they\u2019ll be disappointed.<\/p>\n
Rolapp said Tuesday that players will first be required to be completely relieved of contractual obligations to LIV before conversations with the PGA Tour can begin. Koepka set this precedent.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s unclear what we\u2019re reacting to, but any player who is here needs to demonstrate that they\u2019re completely free of any tail obligation for some time,\u201d Rolapp said.<\/p>\n
Even if the PGA Tour requires LIV golfers to serve out their one-year suspensions from the last LIV tournament, many of those affected are either currently DP World Tour members or could qualify to participate in tournaments on that circuit. Enough success there would allow them to return to the PGA Tour in 2028, whether on the Championship or Challenger Series. Currently, the top 10 in the DP World Tour season-long standings earn PGA Tour cards, but it\u2019s all subject to change in the PGA Tour\u2019s new era.<\/p>\n
Patrick Reed left LIV shortly after Koepka and was ineligible for the returning member program, since it was specifically for recent major champions. This season, Reed has played on the DP World Tour and is currently No. 1 in the Race to Dubai rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp made it clear Tuesday that there are no current plans in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-825648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825648","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=825648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}