ATLANTA — With LIV Golf’s future in limbo following the conclusion of its 2026 season, there remains no clear-cut path for any of the league’s players to potentially return to the PGA Tour.
“Rules matter,” PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp said Tuesday at his pre-tournament press conference ahead of this week’s Tour Championship. And “rules only matter if they’re enforced,” Rolapp added during his address to media and tour stakeholders inside the clubhouse at East Lake Golf Club.
LIV players have been banned from the PGA Tour since the league launched in 2022, with most facing at least a one-year suspension dating back to the most recent LIV event they played in. Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka bucked that trend when he re-joined the PGA Tour in January—just five months after completing his fourth LIV season—as the first and so far only member of the PGA Tour’s Returning Member Program, which Rolapp at the time described as a “one-time, defined window” with “no promise” it would be available again.
“Currently there’s no current plans for a Returning Member Program like you saw earlier this year,” Rolapp said. Koepka was one of four LIV players eligible for that, alongside Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, and Cam Smith. DeChambeau and Smith are among the most pro-LIV players, while Rahm is widely seen as being ready to leave the league.
