{"id":36941,"date":"2025-12-24T01:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/brooks-koepka-five-time-major-winner-announces-departure-from-liv-golf\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:33:51","slug":"brooks-koepka-five-time-major-winner-announces-departure-from-liv-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/brooks-koepka-five-time-major-winner-announces-departure-from-liv-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks Koepka: Five-time major winner announces departure from LIV Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Florida-born Koepka, who is married and has a young son, turned professional in 2012 and won nine PGA Tour events during his nine seasons on North America&#8217;s elite professional circuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The PGA Tour also wished Koepka and &#8220;his family continued success&#8221; in a statement, before adding they &#8220;continue to offer the best professional golfers the most competitive, challenging and lucrative environment in which to pursue greatness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A three-time US PGA champion, Koepka, has also twice triumphed at the US Open. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His defection from the PGA Tour, along with big names such as Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau, was seen as a major coup for LIV during a period when the sport appeared to be at civil war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Koepka&#8217;s captaincy of the LIV Golf team, Smash, will now pass to Talor Gooch, with the side having an opening to fill for the start of the 2026 season in February. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Koepka becomes the first star player to leave LIV Golf, however, there has been speculation over his future for months and a possible return to the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Tour has suspended players who competed in LIV Golf events after categorising them as unauthorised. Non-members have been subject to a year ban following their previous LIV event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Koepka will also be eligible to join the DP World Tour and have exemptions to compete in golf&#8217;s four major championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this week, Chilean Mito Pereira announced his retirement from golf aged 30 after three seasons with LIV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/czrkz7j7kn6o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida-born Koepka, who is married and has a young son, turned professional in 2012 and won nine PGA Tour events during his nine seasons on North America&#8217;s elite professional circuit. The PGA Tour also wished Koepka and &#8220;his family continued success&#8221; in a statement, before adding they &#8220;continue to offer the best professional golfers the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36943,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36941\/revisions\/36943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}