Brooks Koepka's attorney gives inside look into golfer's LIV departure, return to PGA Tour

Thursday marked a historical time for the PGA Tour, arsenic Brooks Koepka's instrumentality became official.

After spending much than 4 years with LIV Golf, the five-time large victor announced earlier this period helium was returning to the Tour and teed disconnected astatine the Farmers Insurance Open successful Torrey Pines connected Thursday.

Koepka cited much household clip arsenic the cardinal contributor to his determination to get retired of his declaration with the Saudi-backed league early. Ironically, that was a main crushed wherefore radical defected to LIV, but Koepka's lawyer and adviser, Bryan Freedman, provided immoderate discourse successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital.

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Brooks Koepka of the United States reacts aft chipping successful for birdie connected the 17th spread during the 2nd circular of the 125th U.S. Open astatine Oakmont Country Club connected June 13, 2025, successful Oakmont, Pennsylvania.  (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

"Brooks has felt implicit the years that the question being truthful aggravated and truthful planetary that it kept him distant from his family, and I deliberation arsenic clip went on, helium longed to walk much clip with his household and beryllium person to the U.S.," Freedman said. LIV has traveled to Australia, Singapore, and different places each passim the world.

There had agelong been rumors that Koepka had buyer’s remorse, and determination were times passim past twelvemonth erstwhile helium was alternatively mum astir his aboriginal successful LIV.

"I don't cognize that Brooks truly made a determination that helium wanted to get retired until helium made that decision, right? It had precise small to bash with play and overmuch to bash astir family," Freedman said. "Maybe each athletes are similar this, right? Happy life, blessed home, You tin excel arsenic an jock successful your champion form. That’s the key, is to marque definite that he's blessed and he's comfortable."

Despite the divorcement betwixt Koepka and LIV, Freedman said that "everybody was respectful successful the process, and everybody was attentive to each party's needs."

Brooks Koepka plays his changeable from the archetypal tee during the last circular of the U.S. Open play tourney connected June 15, 2025.  (Charles LeClaire/Imagn Images)

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"Brooks and I worked unneurotic with different radical connected the squad and LIV radical to effort to scope a operation that would enactment for everyone," Freedman said. "And to person Brooks get his desired result, I think, that Brooks has thing but respect for LIV, it was a respectful process, and I deliberation everyone saw the payment successful Brooks being capable to beryllium blessed and bash what helium wanted to do, which was to beryllium person to home, person to his child, person to his wife. He's gone done immoderate idiosyncratic things and wanted to truly benignant of code those from a quality being standpoint."

Freedman besides praised the PGA Tour for welcoming Koepka backmost with semi-open arms.

"I deliberation the absorption was truly positive. It’s great. The PGA has been wonderful, they welcomed him back. There are surely restrictions that helium has, and he'll abide by them. But I deliberation they've been unthinkable successful welcoming back," Freedman said. "I deliberation he's truly excited. I deliberation he's excited to marque amends with the players and bash his champion to conscionable benignant of beryllium a golfer amongst golfers, arsenic a idiosyncratic among workers, and truly spell successful determination and beryllium humble and locomotion successful with the humility and the grace that Brooks walks astir with."

Koepka definite seems blessed to beryllium backmost connected the PGA Tour, but Freedman does not judge helium had immoderate regrets astir playing successful LIV.

Brooks Koepka of the United States poses for photos aft winning the 2019 PGA Championship astatine the Bethpage Black people with a people of 8 nether par connected May 19, 2019, successful Farmingdale, New York. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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"I don't deliberation helium had immoderate regrets astatine each going to LIV. I deliberation if anything, everybody wishes that everybody got on better, right?" Freedman said. That determination was immoderate quality wherever radical truly had to play nicely successful the sandbox together, and that this beryllium a concern that didn't rise truthful galore issues for people. I deliberation that if there's immoderate regret, it's astir apt that."

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