Brooks Koepka should face penalty if he rejoins PGA Tour, golf pundit says

Brooks Koepka’s determination to permission LIV Golf years aft becoming 1 of the notable faces to articulation the renegade league sent shockwaves done the athletics this week.

Koepka played connected the LIV Golf bid for much than 3 seasons, winning 5 events during that span and taking location the PGA Championship successful 2023.

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Brooks Koepka of Smash GC plays his changeable from the 3rd tee during the quarterfinals of the LIV Golf Michigan Team Championship astatine The Cardinal astatine Saint John's Resort connected Aug. 22, 2025. (Aaron Doster/Imagn Images)

Golf commentator Brandel Chamblee connected Friday offered his 2 cents connected fans clamoring for Koepka to instrumentality to the PGA Tour, penning successful a station connected X that helium disagreed with the notion.

"I surely disagree with this," helium wrote. "Allowing Brooks Koepka to instrumentality to the PGA Tour with nary consequence, would undermine the precise meritocratic foundations that marque the PGA Tour morganatic - not due to the fact that of who helium is, but due to the fact that of what his instrumentality with signal."

Chamblee said determination should beryllium a punishment of immoderate benignant for Koepka, oregon anyone other who jumped to the league, which is backed by the Saudi Arabian government.

"LIV did not simply connection an alternate league, it fractured fields, diluted competitory meaning, triggered ineligible warfare, undermined sponsorship stability, and forced structural alteration crossed each of nonrecreational golf," helium continued. "Koepka was not a passive bystander, helium was a marquee legitimizer.

"You don’t punish him for being influential, but you cannot unreal his power didn’t matter. His credibility made LIV viable, his stature normalized defection and his occurrence (especially aft joining LIV) validated the disruption."

Brooks Koepka, of the United States, acknowledges the assemblage connected the 5th greenish during the archetypal circular of the British Open play title astatine the Royal Portrush Golf Club successful Northern Ireland, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

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Chamblee suggested that a punishment would suffice, and being reintegrated into the PGA Tour would beryllium the way that officials should spell with.

"A punishment would not truthful overmuch beryllium a punishment arsenic it would beryllium an acknowledgment of prime and the effect does not request to beryllium punitive to beryllium meaningful," helium added. "He could beryllium made to re-qualify for the PGA Tour (his 5 twelvemonth exemption for winning the PGA Championship for majors whitethorn basal but not for the PGA Tour).

"He could person constricted play eligibility and/or a suspension tied to anterior contracted breach. The players who stayed connected the PGA Tour paid a price. They had to sorb the uncertainty, play successful weaker fields, enarthrosis reputational hazard and instrumentality connected a greater work of protecting the tour’s continuity."

Ultimately, Chamblee wrote that the punishment wouldn’t beryllium astir punishing anyone but alternatively the consequences for sending a ripple effect done the athletics and protecting the PGA Tour.

"It is astir whether the PGA Tour judge commitments mean something. If elite players tin destabilize the system, instrumentality guaranteed wealth and past instrumentality instantly due to the fact that they are fashionable oregon successful, the connection is that rules use lone to the expendable," Chamblee wrote.

"If excellence unsocial erases consequences past the PGA Tour ceases to beryllium a meritocracy and becomes a marketplace of convenience. Great players astir surely merit respect, but institutions merit protection."

Brooks Koepka plays a changeable from a bunker connected the 2nd spread during the 2nd circular of the U.S. Open play tourney connected June 13, 2025. (Charles LeClaire/Imagn Images)

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LIV Golf said Koepka was leaving the bid to prioritize the "needs of his household and staying to person to home."

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