Brooks Koepka has supplied a blunt response to rumours that he would possibly return to the PGA Tour.
The controversy has been sparked by feedback from former golf star Fred {Couples}.
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Koepka advised reporters at a information convention earlier than the LIV Golf Sentosa occasion on Wednesday that {Couples} despatched him a textual content message after his feedback—which Phil Mickelson labeled a ‘jerk transfer’—had been extensively shared.
“Yeah, Fred texted me after, I suppose, the feedback got here out. I do not know when it was. Someday final week,” Koepka shared.
“Everyone appears to have their very own opinions, and but nobody asks me. I speak to Fred fairly a bit, however we don’t dive into a lot element about what’s actually happening.
“As I’ve stated earlier than, I’m not in these rooms. I’ve acquired a contractual obligation to fulfil out right here, after which we’ll see what the long run holds.
“I do not know the place I’m going, so it’s perplexing how everybody else appears to.”
Koepka will subsequent be competing in LIV Golf’s Singapore occasion, beginning Friday, proudly defending his title as the person champion.
“Proper now, my focus is squarely on enhancing my recreation, discovering methods to excel within the majors, and making certain this group can win. After that, we’ll navigate subsequent 12 months and play even higher,” he emphasised.
“It’s the identical cycle. I’ve no insights. But, everybody else appears to know greater than I do.”
His remarks got here as a direct response to {Couples}, who urged the five-time main champion ‘actually needs’ to rejoin the PGA Tour.
“He needs to come back again,” {Couples}, 65, asserted. “I consider he needs to return and play the Tour.”
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Mickelson, one in every of LIV’s most outstanding figures, was not happy with {Couples}’ statements, taking to social media to confront him in a publish that was ultimately deleted.
“If it’s not true, he broken a relationship that he deeply cares about,” Mickelson wrote.
“If it’s true, he stripped Brooks of his management over the timeline and narrative. Both method, it is a low-class jerk transfer by Fred.”
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan sidestepped questions on whether or not LIV gamers had approached the tour a few potential return.
Talking in Orlando on Tuesday, he stored his deal with the continuing negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund.
“I’m not going to get into any conversations that I did or didn’t have with gamers on LIV,” Monahan stated.
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“I’m centered on the gamers which are on the PGA Tour. It takes all of my vitality and my group’s vitality to be sure that we’re persevering with to enhance and strengthen the PGA Tour and doing so within the eyes of followers.
“In the end, that query goes to be answered by the conversations that we’re having with the PIF.”
Now, all eyes are on Augusta as we await to see how Mickelson and {Couples} navigate their impending reunion at one in every of golf’s most prestigious dinners.
They are going to come nose to nose at The Masters champions dinner, held on Tuesday simply earlier than the event begins.