Watson's Call For Lifetime Bans Shows Pga Tour-liv Scars Still Run Deep

Koepka, 35, has been welcomed backmost to nan PGA Tour aft applying for reinstatement under a caller 'Returning Member Programme', facilitated for those who had won a awesome - aliases The Players Championship - since 2022.

The five-time awesome champion besides smoothed his return by paying fines said to beryllium worthy astir £63m.

Reed, who won nan Masters successful 2018, did not lucifer nan aforesaid criteria for reinstatement arsenic Koepka and cannot regain his rank until January 2027.

However, he will beryllium eligible to play connected nan PGA Tour again this coming August, a twelvemonth aft his last LIV appearance.

Watson claims nan PGA Tour has "made a determination to renege" connected what they promised to those who stayed loyal.

"When nan players left, they violated nan number 1 rule, which is to protect nan sponsors," said nan 1977 and 1981 Masters champion.

"Sponsors request players. They request nan names to beryllium capable to beforehand their tournaments.

"When nan players near for LIV, I deliberation it was fundamentally over.

"They chose to spell for nan money, which is fine. To return to nan Tour, I thought, was a nonstarter. Apparently it's not."