Just three weeks after leaving LIV Golf, Brooks Koepka is headed back to the PGA Tour sooner than almost anyone expected, but it’s going to cost him.

Brooks Koepka applied for reinstatement on January 11, 2026. And two days later, the PGA Tour dropped the update: he’s back.

The PGA Tour is welcoming Brooks Koepka back - with some restrictions.

The golfing realm is going through a tumultuous time at the moment. On one hand, the news of Brooks Koepka trying to come back to the PGA Tour has shocked everyone.

LIV Golf officials issued a statement on Monday, some of it sounded similar to a PGA Tour statement from just last month

Brooks Koepka’s reinstatement appeal seems to have shaken the very core of golf at the moment. And with it, all of its minute rules and regulations are being put under some severe scrutiny.

Brooks Koepka is expecting a nervous energy when he returns to a regular PGA Tour event for the first time in four years at the Farmers Insurance Open. How he is received — inside and outside the ropes — remains to be seen as the first player to be invited back to the PGA Tour after taking at Saudi riches to defect to LIV Golf in 2022. “I’ve got a lot of work to do with some of the players,” Koepka said in a telephone interview Monday.

Earlier on Monday, Brooks Koepka announced his return to the PGA Tour from LIV Golf as a part of the new Returning Member Program.

The golf world was shaken up with the news that Brooks Koepka is returning to the PGA Tour, prompting a statement from LIV Golf.

How the tour arrived at its decision, and what it might mean for the future.