Former world setter Brooks Koepka was one of the first players to openly criticize the new golf tour, funded by the Saudi state apparatus.
Unlike regular events on the PGA or European Tour, LIV Golf is played over only three days, with 48 players, in team format, with shotgun starts and without qualifying limits.
The tour also attracts with huge sums of prize money.
An approach that did not seem to impress Koepka, who has four major titles on the merit list.
- I have a hard time believing that golf should be about only 48 players.
Money will not change my life, he told the AP in March 2020.
Little brother is already playing there
Another Koepka was not as difficult to sell.
The world star's brother Chase Koepka, ranked 1,562 in the world, was one of the 48 players who knocked out during the first competition at Centurion Club outside London on 9 June.
Now big brother Brooks has made a U-turn and is apparently in the starting field for the next LIV competition on June 30 in Portland, Oregon.
When the 32-year-old was questioned during a press conference about the rumors about his future during last week's major, the US Open, Koepka was almost incomprehensible about the speculations.
- I do not understand.
I'm trying to focus on the US Open.
I honestly do not understand it at all.
I'm tired of all the talk.
I'm tired of all this.
You (the journalists) cast a dark shadow over the competition.
I think it sucks.
I actually feel sorry for them (the players on the LIV tour).
We are here to play and you are talking about a competition from last week, he said.