Brooks Koepka Admits He Misses These PGA TOUR Events: Is He Coming Back?

Brooks Koepka admittedly has a soft spot for several PGA TOUR and DP World Tour events, and as he has continued to hint that he’s interested in returning to the tour he once left, it seems his future is obvious.

However, the cryptic and beat-around-the-bush quotes the five-time Major Champion has fed us fans for the past five months sound a lot like what he said before he left for LIV. The “I don’t know what I’m doing” type of quotes. They continued in a new interview with The Times.

Kopeka has said for the past few months that he had hoped LIV Golf would be further along than it is. That sounds a lot like what anyone who took $100m+ to play golf in a new, exciting, and controversial league would say. But it does not change the fact that Koepka is far from the player he was when he left the TOUR.

In 2022, Koepka was battling the repercussions of several knee surgeries and other ailments, and his game was way off. He took the money and admitted later, at the 2023 Masters, that the decision to leave the PGA TOUR would have been slightly more difficult if he had been healthy.

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He officially returned to form at the 2023 PGA Championship when he dominated and gave fans a vintage Koepka-like Major performance. Over the past few months, he has hinted that the TOUR might be where his future lies.

In the interview with The Times, he said there are some events he'd love to play again, and there are plenty of good vibes between he and previous PGA TOUR rivals:

“I still have a good relationship with everybody there. There’s a lot of ‘what-ifs’, but I’d be open to playing certain [PGA Tour] events. Like I love Phoenix [Open, in Arizona]. The Cognizant Classic, because it’s my hometown. I’d love to play Dunhill [on the DP World Tour], but if we can’t that’s OK. I’ve made my decision. I think each year at LIV has got better. And that should be the goal, right?”

There is no doubt in anyone's minds that Koepka is mulling a potential move back to the PGA TOUR in what would be a groundbreaking development based on how the past few years have played out. Ideally, we would have already had the PGA TOUR and Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) agree to a merger deal to bring the best players in the world back together.

But now it seems the first re-defection back to the TOUR will happen first. Will it be Koepka?

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