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LIV Golf responded to Brooks Koepka’s reinstatement to the PGA Tour on Monday with a press release that trumpeted its ‘unchanged’ imaginative and prescient to develop the game of golf.
LIV’s assertion additionally mentioned its want for ‘an open ecosystem’ within the sport utilized to all gamers, ‘not only a restricted few.’
The response got here after it was revealed that the PGA Tour is opening a limited-time window for gamers who defected to LIV to return again, known as the Returning Player Program. Only gamers who’ve received a Players Championship, Masters Tournament, PGA Championship, U.S. Open or Open Championship between 2022-25 are eligible to return; solely Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm of Spain and Cameron Smith of Australia match these standards.
A five-time main champion, Koepka determined to depart the LIV circuit with its worldwide footprint final month, desirous to be nearer to his household within the U.S.
While CEO Brian Rolapp’s letter to gamers promised the PGA Tour would collect ‘the world’s greatest gamers to compete on the PGA Tour week in and week out,’ LIV Golf tried to carry agency.
‘From the outset, LIV Golf has championed an open ecosystem and freedom, for all,’ the assertion mentioned. ‘Not only for a restricted few. One that helps gamers’ rights to compete throughout numerous platforms, reinforcing the imagine that the expansion of the sport is greatest served when the sport’s greatest gamers are empowered to hunt essentially the most aggressive environments all over the world.
‘LIV Golf’s imaginative and prescient remained unchanged — to develop the sport of golf globally — and that imaginative and prescient good points momentum throughout the broader golf panorama, the capability to ship on it continues to strengthen by increasing pathways and alternative past any single establishment or curiosity.
‘As the world’s golf league, LIV Golf continues to supply one of the best skilled golfers essentially the most aggressive, difficult and profitable setting through which to pursue greatness on a worldwide scale.
‘Long LIV Golf’Also Monday, LIV Golf introduced the rebranding of the Iron Heads GC franchise to ‘Korean Golf Club,’ leaning into the symbolism and id of South Korea.
The new workforce logos characteristic a white tiger and a Rose of Sharon, outstanding symbols in Korean tradition.
The former Iron Heads GC was captained by Kevin Na and in addition featured Danny Lee of New Zealand, Yubin Jang of South Korea and Jinichiro Kozuma of Japan in 2025. Na, Lee and Jang have been born in South Korea.
LIV Golf workforce rosters for 2026 haven’t been formally revealed. Koepka was beforehand the captain of Smash GC.
–Field Level Media