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Brooks Koepka is one of the biggest names to defect to LIV Golf from the PGA Tour. The PGA Championship winner’s move to the Saudi-backed series had made headlines at the time. The golfer reportedly bagged around $100 million for his defection to the tumultuous series.
Now, months after the move, reports have come out claiming that the golfer is having ‘buyer's remorse’ over his decision to join the LIV Golf League. According to Alan Shipnuck of The Fire Pit Collective, Koepka now regrets taking the whopping contract he was offered to join the controversial series. The author claimed that the 32-year-old star golfer joined LIV when "his brittle body was still being put back together" and that he is now “feeling frisky and rethinking his career choice."
Opening up about Brooks Koepka in the latest edition of #AskAlan, Alan Shipnuck wrote:
"I'm hearing a lot of rumblings that Brooks Koepka has buyer’s remorse. He took the money when his brittle body was still being put back together, and in private he has confided to folks he wasn’t sure if he would ever get fully healthy again. But now Koepka is feeling frisky and supposedly rethinking his career choice.”
He added:
"The guy has one of the biggest egos in golf, and as the PGA Tour creates ever-increasing buzz with its elevated events and even the state-sanctioned TGL, Koepka has to feel like he’s on the outside looking in… As for the mechanics of returning to his old place of business, a lot hinges on the European Tour lawsuit that is being reviewed by arbitrators in the UK.”
Will Brooks Koepka return to the PGA Tour?
Alan Shipnuck, famous for publishing Phil Mickelson's "reckless remarks" about working with LIV Golf and the PGA Tour, went on to speak about LIV players’ possible return to major events. The controversial author claimed that PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan secretly wanted big-name LIV players on the tour for increased PR.
He said:
“If the players prevail, that opens the door for the LIV guys to have unfettered access to the Euro Tour, which will be a boon to a struggling circuit. It would also position LIV golfers to play for Europe in the Ryder Cup, all of which would put intense pressure on the PGA Tour to forge a truce with LIV.
"Secretly, Monahan would love for some big-name LIV guys to come home because it would be a p.r. bonanza for the PGA Tour."
It is pertinent to note that Brooks Koepka was one of the biggest names on the PGA Tour when he decided to move to LIV Golf. The golfer joined the Saudi-backed series last June for a fee that was reportedly in the region of $100 million. He merely followed Phil Mickelson, who signed with LIV for $200 million.
It is also noteworthy that the rumors about Koepka regretting his move to LIV come just a day after the PGA Tour documentary Full Swing was released on Netflix. The series’ second episode, titled 'Win or Go Home', exclusively followed Koepka and his dominant nature on the American circuit.
