Brooks Koepka to return to PGA Tour through new ‘Returning Member Program’

Brooks Koepka is officially back.

The five-time major champion and PGA Tour each released announcements on Monday afternoon to signal the news. Brooks Koepka is indeed returning to the PGA Tour and will make his debut at the end of the month at the Farmers Insurance Open. He will also be playing the WM Phoenix Open.

PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp said in a statement that the Tour announced and explained the criteria and conditions for Koepka to return. It is essentially a new “returning members program” that allows for the most accomplished golfers who went to LIV to return to the PGA Tour. Any player who won The Players or a major championship between 2022 and 2025 is eligible.

Koepka is not the only player who left for LIV who meets the qualifications. There are three other active LIV players who do so as well and it was noted by Rolapp that they have until February 2nd to pledge to the same conditions that Brooks has agreed to.

Bryson DeChambeau, John Rahm, and Cam Smith are the players in question and now have to figure out their futures in a three-week span. The most important thing here though is that, for the first time since leaving for LIV, there is a defined path for them to return to the PGA Tour and to do so fairly immediately.

The landscape of professional golf just altered in one of the most significant ways possible since the dawn of LIV. It goes without saying that if any of DeChambeau, Rahm, or Smith choose to follow the path that Brooks just carved… well… that would be quite a big deal.