Fred and his wife were at the Mitsubishi Electric Championships.
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Brooks Koepka hopes to return to the PGA Tour, the Fred couple said.
But the 1992 master winner is right how If a financial agreement is reached between the Tour and the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, it will also provide funds for Lef, and Lef golf professionals will be back. It seems that the agreement will allow LIV professionals, many of whom have been on tour, and it is an opportunity to play on tour again.
But will the signature event of the tour created after Liv started the competition in 2022 get them to attend? These events have large wallets and limited areas – couples want to know what other players will look like.
“I’ve been talking to Brooks Koepka. I love Brooks Koepka,” he said. “And, I’m not going to say one more thing except that I’ve been talking to him all the time – where are you playing next, you know, when you go and all this stuff – he wants to come back, I’ll say that. I’m sure he really wants to come back for the tour.
“But for me personally, there are a lot of people going to be pushed out. …I don’t know how you got the elevated event with 72 or 77 people and brought seven superstars. You tell the other seven seven? I’m leaving, you know, goodbye.”
The couple’s comments were made through a recent interview with Seattle’s Dave Mahler and Dick Fain KJR 93.3 FM – You can listen here – They continue to have a series of ideas on the LIV of the World Golf Hall of Fame members. The couple often pierced the series, with his main beef with Liv signers who dig on the PGA Tour, but he also expressed displeasure with Liv’s funding and format.
“I don’t think I’ll ever understand,” the couple said of Liv at the Masters in April. “Maybe I’ll find one [LIV event] Look at what it really is, what it really looks like. I know how great they are as players. I got it all, I got 54 holes and you drove a cart to the serving gun and shotgun. This is easy to choose. Sometimes I choose the comments people make and I choose the comments they talk about the trip, I say I’ve invested for 44 years and I don’t want anyone to choose the tour I think is very good.
“Now, everything will be better, but let me tell you if the LIV Tour is better for golf, I’ve missed something there. But again, I’m not slamming them here anymore.”
As negotiations between the PGA Tour and PIF appear to have made progress in the deal agreed in June 2023, comments from the couple emerged. Probably a shocking point that couples point out is: if both parties come together.
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“We’re trying to tour with young players, and that’s really a success,” the couple said in an interview. “…The age of tours dropped rapidly, lower. Even kid Luke Clanton, who I think has another great round today. … But he’s a superstar. But no one really – you know, people in Seattle, if you say, who that is, they don’t know. … They’re not Jon Rahm, Cam Smith or Brooks or Dustin [Johnson]but they will become.
“So, for us, to throw their bones back on the tour, I don’t think…I know or someone really knows tonight.”
Longtime CBS announcer Jim Nantz also spoke to the radio station and wondered what event was if a deal was to be concluded, and “this concept of golf is so important to Yasir Al-Rumayyan’s Liv leader.” Nantz later said he believed golf was in a good place and the PGA Tour had leverage in negotiations.
“I think the game is good,” Nanz said in an interview. “You know, we almost have some conditions to say, when can we solve this problem? When can we settle, like the Tour is sick? I don’t believe it hurts. Now, I realize there’s some firepower, the stellar power is left and ran for the money, but we’ve developed – I said – we – the PGA Tour has also developed stars during this period. I mean, we have people like that in recent weeks, we’ve got a guy named Ludvig Aberg. We’re looking for ways to make the PGA Tour a really interesting watch. By the way, our ratings came out from the West Coast and we’re up nearly 20%.
“So, I mean, I don’t think the game hurts a lot. I don’t think this trip was for me – and then no one asked me to be in the negotiations – this trip shouldn’t be desperate right now. I think the PGA Tour has a lot more leverage than the LIV side.”
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