Brooks Koepka remained noncommittal about his future with LIV Golf when asked about rumours surrounding a potential return to the PGA Tour.
Koepka has in the past been honest that his struggles with injuries played a major role in his decision to sign for the Saudi-backed circuit three years ago.
It was a move that banked the five-time major champion a signing bonus of around $100million, but speculation has long swirled that the American would be keen on a return to his former stomping ground.
Such claims gained momentum earlier in the month when major champion Fred Couples spoke out on Koepka’s uncertain future.
‘I talked to Brooks Koepka all the time,’ Couples told US radio station KJR 93.3 FM. ‘He wants to come back. I will say that I believe he really wants to come back and play the Tour.’
While the length of Koepka’s contract with LIV is unknown, the American suggested he has made no firm committments about where he will ply his trade when his deal runs out.
‘Fred texted me after, I guess, the comments came out,’ Koepka told reporters ahead of LIV’s latest event in Singapore.
‘I don’t know when it was. Sometime last week. Yeah, everybody seems to have their own opinion and no one asks me.
‘I talked to Fred quite a bit, but we don’t go too much into detail about what’s going on. Like I’ve said before, I’m not in those rooms. I’ve got a contract obligation out here to fulfill, and then we’ll see what happens.’
Koepka continued: ‘I don’t know where I’m going, so I don’t know how everybody else does.
‘Right now I’m just focused on how do I play better, how do I play better in the majors, how does this team win, and then we’ll figure out next year and how to play better again.
‘It’s the same thing. It’s just a revolving cycle. I’ve got nothing. Everybody else seems to know more than I do.’
Koepka’s comments come as both LIV and the PGA Tour remain seemingly at an impasse in negotiatons to reunite men’s professional golf.
A potential deal between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which bankrolls LIV, was first announced in June 2023 but no tangible agreement has been reached as of yet.
At present, LIV golfers remain unable to compete on the PGA Tour, although English golfer Laurie Canter is set to become the first player to make a PGA Tour appearance having played on LIV Golf when he tees it up at the Players this week.
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