Seemingly stalled merger talks may construct a bridge between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour, however almost 11 months because the potential settlement grew to become public, Brooks Koepka cleared up what he believes is a public false impression.
“I imply, the merger can also be between PIF (Saudi Arabian Public Funding Fund) and the PGA Tour,” Koepka stated Thursday at Sentosa Golf Membership, website of LIV Singapore. “I believe that is the distinction. It is not LIV Golf, it is the PIF and the PGA TOUR. I believe that is one thing that must be well-known.
“Look, we do not know. The PGA Tour has no concept. Our job is to go play golf, and that is it. That is what we’re right here to do. However I believe it is vital that the merger is that manner.”
Koepka stated he is targeted on fixing his placing this week with the PGA Championship at Valhalla two weeks away. He’s the defending PGA Championship winner, taking his third Wanamaker Trophy at Oak Hill in 2023. However his recreation is not in the identical place by his personal evaluation following a Forty fifth-place end at Augusta Nationwide final month. Koepka was 20 photographs off the tempo of winner Scottie Scheffler.
Koepka is sixteenth in LIV Golf’s particular person standings and dealing totally on his brief recreation. He lamented Thursday that he left Georgia final month with the sensation he wasted the four-month buildup to the event, which was anchored by a transition from a button-back fashion putter in his bag for a dozen years to a mallet putter.
“One thing we have simply been placing some work into, so looking for some solutions,” Koepka stated.
Requested to explain the primary points along with his placing for the time being, Koepka quipped: “The ball does not go within the gap, that’s normally one among them. I do not know the way else to easily put it. I really feel like I am hitting good putts, they only maintain burning lips. Ultimately it begins to put on on you after some time. All you are able to do is hit putt and see the place it goes from there. Hopefully they begin falling quickly.”
Bryson DeChambeau was within the remaining pairing with Max Homa on Saturday on the Masters however was left in Scheffler’s wake and tied for sixth.
He stated extra LIV golfers are sure to be in rivalry in majors with three on the schedule within the subsequent three months.
“I believe us LIV golfers are ready as ever to play main championships,” DeChambeau stated, including the lighter event scheduled “permits us the chance to have a bit bit extra time each now and again to prepare for these majors. However I believe all of us have the firepower to play effectively and win a significant championship. There’s a variety of main champions over right here that know tips on how to get it completed, so it is only a matter of time.”
DeChambeau and Phil Mickelson agreed with Koepka’s assertion that LIV Golf is robust and has endurance, no matter how “merger” talks progress.
Mickelson was among the many gamers hailed with a rock-star therapy final week at Adelaide in Australia and finds Singapore to be extra energetic about LIV’s arrival this time round.
“There’s additionally a variety of uncertainty. I believe the issues that I do know is I believe the standard of the gamers will proceed to get higher annually,” Mickelson stated of the way forward for LIV Golf. “I believe that the flexibility and the websites that we transfer all through the world will proceed to excite gamers and excite followers. We’ll be going to extra international locations exterior of america that actually are ravenous for world-class skilled golf, and we’ll have much more receptions like we had at Adelaide.”
