Opinion: LIV may have a problem with Patrick Reed returning to the PGA Tour

Patrick Reed (Google Images)

The same week that Brooks Koepka of West Palm Beach, Florida is returning to the PGA Tour from the LIV Tour, we found out that Patrick Reed of San Antonio, Texas is changing tours as well. According to the Associated Press on Wednesday, Reed will return to the PGA Tour after spending the last four years with LIV. He is scheduled to be part of the DP World Tour in Europe from now until September, and then make the change back to the PGA Tour come fall.

Reed initially joined the LIV Tour on June 11, 2022. He will not face the same number of penalties that Koepka did.

When Reed was on the PGA Tour, he was a major champion. Reed won the 2018 Masters where he shot a winning score of -15. He beat fellow American Rickie Fowler by a single stroke, and in the process won $1.98 million.

During Reed’s LIV career, he won one LIV Tour event. That came in Dallas in 2025, as he shot a 54-hole score of -6, and beat South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen, England’s Paul Casey and Japan’s Jinichiro Kozuma in a playoff.

With Koepka and now Reed switching tours, one may need to seriously ask if there is a problem with the LIV Tour and why are two major champions all of a sudden leaving the tour when they were given an exorbitant amount of money to join the Saudi-backed golf tour to begin with. Both Koepka and Reed are saying they are returning to the PGA Tour for “family reasons”. You need to wonder if the reasons are a little bit deeper than that.

Either way, the loss of Koepka and Reed is a loss for the LIV Tour and an eventual win for the PGA Tour. According to Matt Cradock of Golf Monthly, Americans Hudson Swafford and Kevin Na have also applied for reinstatement.