LIV Golfing is anticipated to announce the scoop of the previous international No.1, who’s these days ranked nineteenth, to its sequence “within the coming days,” ESPN stories.
The LIV Golfing sequence, which started in London this month, is a brand new excursion arranged by means of LIV Golfing Investments which is composed of 8 occasions internationally. However the match is contentious, and on account of becoming a member of LIV Golfing, Koepka is anticipated to be banned from the PGA Excursion.
CNN has reached out to LIV Golfing and Koepka’s representatives for remark.
Koepka is anticipated to compete within the subsequent LIV Golfing match, which is scheduled to happen from June 30 to July 2 at Pumpkin Ridge Golfing Membership close to Portland, Oregon, in keeping with stories.
The celebrity instructed Golfing Digest in 2020: “Cash does not topic. It isn’t one thing that is vital. I simply wish to be at liberty. Cash’s no longer going to make me satisfied. I simply wish to play towards the most productive.
“If any person gave me $200 million the next day to come, it isn’t going to switch my lifestyles. What am I going to get out of it? I have already got [enough money] that I may retire at this time, however I do not wish to. I simply wish to play golfing,” he added.
Remaining week at the USA Open, the 32-year-old stated he was once bored with speaking about LIV Golfing and stated the media was once casting a “black cloud” over the 122nd US Open, a non-PGA Excursion match. Koepka’s brother, Chase, performed within the inaugural LIV Golfing match in London previous this month.
Fronted by means of former international No. 1 Greg Norman, the team-based sequence runs from June to October. It’s sponsored by means of Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund (PIF) — a sovereign wealth fund chaired by means of Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and the person who a US intelligence file named as chargeable for approving the operation that ended in the 2018 homicide of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Bin Salman has denied involvement in Khashoggi’s homicide.
The attention-watering cash on be offering attracted a mixture of golfers to join the outlet match in London, from every age, backgrounds and good fortune at the golfing route.
Six-time main winner Phil Mickelson and previous international No. 1 Dustin Johnson are among those that headlined the development, whilst different main winners Sergio Garcia, Martin Kaymer, Graeme McDowell, Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel additionally participated.
