Jordan Spieth addresses LIV stars returning to PGA | Golf News

Jordan Spieth supplied his perspective on the framework that must be established for LIV Golf gamers trying to rejoin the PGA Tour.

On Thursday, LIV Golf formally confirmed that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund – which has invested more than $5 billion into the breakaway league – will stop its financial help at the end of the 2026 season. Alongside the major announcement, PIF chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan resigned from his place as chairman of the LIV board.

Since its launch in 2022, LIV Golf has efficiently attracted some of the sport’s greatest stars with substantial assured contracts.

Despite that includes a star-studded lineup that contains two-time U.S. Open Champion Bryson DeChambeau, two-time major champion Jon Rahm and three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson, the league’s following stays a fraction of the PGA Tour’s recognition.

Several outstanding gamers have already departed LIV Golf to depart what now appears to be a sinking ship. In January, Brooks Koepka grew to become the first high-profile participant to be formally reinstated by the PGA Tour through a one-time Returning Member Program, which was only accessible to former Tour members who’d received The Players or a major championship between 2022-2025.

Patrick Reed, who competed in 4 seasons on LIV Golf, also revealed his plan to return to the PGA Tour once his one-year suspension concludes on August 25.

Looking toward the future, Spieth urged the PGA Tour to consider return purposes from LIV Golf defectors individually. “I’m not sure if it should be the same for everyone,” he told reporters after the opening spherical of the Cadillac Championship. I do know olive branches got out a couple months in the past. Brooks took ’em up on it. So I’m not sure what would now change.”

While the PGA Tour has not revealed a universal checklist for determining which LIV Golf players can return, considerations that could influence the decision include past performance, membership resignation, previous Tour status and involvement in the antitrust lawsuit against the Tour.

“If there’s a system for Brooks and a system for Patrick Reed, does that keep the same for guys in the same class as those two coming back or does it change now?” Spieth asked.

“Does it change for guys who sued and dropped their membership. There’s just a lot of different issues that occurred over the last 4 years for that.” Spieth, for his part, expressed relief that he doesn’t have to tackle those questions himself. “I’m variety of glad I’m not in that room, and I trust the blokes that are in that room to make the proper choice,” he said.