Tiger Woods says Brooks Koepka's PGA Tour return is 'incredible for all the fans'

Brooks Koepka took the play satellite by tempest astatine the extremity of the 2010s, winning 4 majors betwixt 2018 and 2019.

His dominance successful majors made him an instant instrumentality favorite, but aft a determination to LIV Golf successful 2022, fans saw a batch little of Koepka.

That's due to the fact that upon leaving the PGA Tour for the Saudi-backed league, Koepka was lone eligible to play successful majors. His show successful them successful 2023, though, topped disconnected with his 3rd PGA Championship victory, besides got him a motion for the Ryder Cup.

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Tiger Woods of the United States walks disconnected the 13th tee with his playing spouse Brooks Koepka of the United States during the archetypal circular of the 2019 PGA Championship connected the Black Course astatine Bethpage State Park connected May 16, 2019 successful Farmingdale, New York.  (David Cannon/Getty Images)

But amid mediocre play since then, and aft rumors of buyer’s remorse, Koepka exited LIV Golf with a twelvemonth near connected his woody to instrumentality to the PGA Tour past week.

In speaking astir Koepka's return, Tiger Woods said it is "incredible for each the fans."

"They privation to spot the champion play against the best," Woods said to ESPN connected Tuesday. "And for Brooks to privation to travel back, a twelvemonth early, and helium was capable to bash that."

"There's immoderate punitive damages there, but it's a meritocracy. That's what makes our crippled truthful great. He's going to play full-field events, and helium has the quality to gain his mode up to signature events. If he's good, he's good. If helium plays great, helium plays great. If helium wins tournaments, helium wins tournaments. There's nary crushed wherefore we should clasp him back," Woods continued.

Koepka opted retired of LIV Golf precocious past month, citing household clip arsenic his crushed for leaving. Ironically, helium volition beryllium connected the roadworthy adjacent much aft rejoining the PGA Tour. In fact, Cameron Smith reiterated his committedness to LIV Golf earlier this week, saying it allows him to beryllium location much often.

"When I was a child, I ever dreamed astir competing connected the @PGATOUR, and I americium conscionable arsenic excited contiguous to denote that I americium returning to the PGA TOUR. Being person to location and spending much clip with my household makes this accidental particularly meaningful to me," Koepka said successful his PGA Tour instrumentality announcement.

Brooks Koepka during the 2nd circular of the PGA Championship play tourney astatine Quail Hollow. (Aaron Doster-Imagn Images)

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"I judge successful wherever the PGA TOUR is headed with caller leadership, caller investors, and an equity programme that gives players a meaningful ownership stake. I besides recognize determination are fiscal penalties associated with this decision, and I judge those."

PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp said Koepka’s instrumentality sparked the Returning Member Program for those who near the institution and whitethorn determine to travel successful Koepka’s footsteps.

Rolapp said Koepka agreed to a fewer conditions upon his instrumentality to the PGA Tour, including a "five-year forfeiture of imaginable equity successful the PGA Tour’s Player Equity Program, representing 1 of the largest fiscal repercussions successful nonrecreational sports history, with estimations that helium could miss retired connected astir $50–85 cardinal successful imaginable earnings, depending connected his competitory show and the maturation of the Tour," according to Rolapp. Koepka volition besides marque a $5 cardinal charitable donation to an enactment yet to beryllium determined.

Brooks Koepka during a signifier circular up of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship astatine St. Andrews, connected Sept. 30, 2025, successful St Andrews, Scotland.  (Ross Parker/SNS Group via Getty Images)

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Koepka became the archetypal idiosyncratic to instrumentality to the PGA Tour aft defecting for LIV Golf.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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