The four-time big winner joins his brother Chase on Greg Norman’s breakaway tour and is almost certain to be eliminated from the PGA Tour as a result. His LIV debut in Portland, Oregon, will be another blow to the US Ryder Cup team, which will face five members of the 2018 team and three from 2021 who are deemed unsuitable for next year’s match in Rome. Koepka, 32, has been in talks with the Saudi-funded series for months, and sources have confirmed that an agreement has finally been reached. Dustin Johnson, another former No. 1 in the world, has signed a deposit of 120 million pounds ($ 150 million) and Koepka will also have won a seven-figure sum as he takes his place next to not only Johnson but also Phil Mickelson. , Sergio Garcίαa. , Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Abraham Ancer, who was revealed as a prisoner on Tuesday. Ancer, the 31-year-old Mexican, is not the biggest name, but he is the No. 20 in the world and has huge potential after breaking his duck on the PGA Tour in Augusta when he won the Memphis World Golf Championship. Ancer is believed to be receiving more than εκατο 50 million and has spoken of this, giving him “the opportunity to return to the game and help it flourish in my country”. It will be interesting to see if LIV plays well in the long-running “dispute” between Koepka and DeChambeau. Tensions have eased between the couple – last year they challenged a TV-made face to head – but it is clear that love is not lost and their quarrel presents obvious obstacles to Norman’s venture as he tries to catch the eye. The LIV roster is getting stronger every week and will worry the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour – formerly the European Tour – which was at a high level after an exciting US Open at the weekend, which apparently stressed the need to put the sport to glory. before the money. Anyone who still rejects the series as an irrelevant side show for faded golfers should probably look at Ancer’s profile and think that, of the last 21 major companies, nine have won LIV contract golfers. And that number is set to rise with other top-20 players rumored to be in the works.
“It sucks that you will fly this cloud over the US Open”
Koepka’s move comes less than a week after the world’s No. 19 rounded up reporters as he was questioned at the LIV as part of the creation of a major. “I’m ready to play in the US Open and I think it sucks that you all throw that black cloud over the US Open,” said Koepka, who has twice won the US National Championship. “I do not know why you keep doing this. The more legs you give it, the more you talk about everything.” Koepka also said he was playing in the PGA Tour because “there is no other choice”. There were rumors that Collin Morikawa, the reigning Open champion, was ready to jump as well, but the 25-year-old categorically denied it on social media. “To tell the story, once again μαι I’m here to stay on the PGA Tour and nothing has changed,” he said. LIV will announce on Wednesday the vast majority of the 48-man stadium for next week’s $ 25 million event at Pumpkin Ridge, with some seats expected to remain vacant for recent additions. Koepka is indeed registered for this week’s PGA Tour in Connecticut – ironically the Travelers Championship – but did not attend the mandatory TPC River Highlands meeting there on Tuesday morning. Jay Monahan, the tour commissioner, discussed plans for a maximum of four $ 20 million “Fall Series” events with the Top 50 on the Tour’s list. Without a doubt, the familiarity with the LIV model did not go unnoticed and is a transparent and understandable trick to keep the top players on the track.
