Brooks Koepka quits LIV Golf to focus on family life

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Koepka, a cardinal signing to the breakaway LIV Golf 3 years ago, has exited the circuit a twelvemonth earlier his declaration ends.

Published On 24 Dec 2025

LIV Golf announced connected Tuesday that five-time large ‌champion Brooks Koepka has parted ways with the lucrative worldwide circuit anterior to the ‍2026 season.

The 35-year-old Koepka, ‍who had 1 twelvemonth near connected his LIV contract, has yet to state whether helium intends to instrumentality to the PGA Tour. He near successful June 2022 erstwhile LIV signed him to a reported $100m declaration to jump-start its bid to vie ⁠with the PGA Tour.

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“We person amicably and mutually agreed that Brooks Koepka volition nary longer vie in the LIV Golf League, pursuing the 2025 season,” LIV Golf CEO ‍Scott O’Neil said successful a statement. “Brooks is prioritizing the needs of his household and staying person to home.”

Koepka’s tenure with LIV was laden with highs and lows. When helium won the 2023 PGA Championship aft spending astir of ‍his days playing ⁠in LIV’s comparatively non-competitive situation that featured 54-hole, no-cut tournaments, it gave LIV a large boost of credibility.

On the flipside, Koepka occasionally expressed his vexation with his concern – sounding similar the 2017 and 2018 US Open champion and 2018, 2019, 2023 PGA titlist was marking time.

“I’ve got a declaration work retired present to fulfil, and past we’ll spot what happens,” Koepka said astatine 1 LIV event.

His authoritative third-person connection did not connection any hints arsenic to his future.

“Brooks Koepka volition beryllium stepping ‌away from LIV Golf. He is profoundly grateful to Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Scott O’Neil, and the LIV Golf enactment team, his teammates, and the fans. Family has ever guided Brooks’s decisions, and helium feels this is the close infinitesimal to walk ‌more clip astatine home. Brooks volition proceed to beryllium a immense protagonist of LIV Golf and wishes the league and its players continued ‌success. Brooks remains passionate astir the crippled of play and volition ⁠keep fans updated connected what’s ahead.”

While Koepka tin tee it up for each 4 majors adjacent twelvemonth acknowledgment to his 2023 PGA Championship victory, the PGA Tour requires LIV exiles to beryllium retired 1 twelvemonth from their past LIV ‌tournament. His past quality was connected August 24 astatine the one-day LIV Golf Michigan event.

The PGA Tour could connection an exemption, but it besides opted not to connection immoderate hints successful its statement.

“Brooks Koepka is ‍a highly accomplished professional, and we privation him and his household continued success. The PGA Tour continues to connection the champion nonrecreational golfers the astir competitive, challenging and lucrative situation successful which ‌to prosecute greatness.”

LIV Golf is financed by the Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealthiness money of Saudi Arabia.