Brooks Koepka hopes The Masters proved THIS about LIV Golf and the PGA Tour

Brooks Koepka said he hopes that The Masters proved that LIV Golf and PGA Tour players can exist together while speaking to the media ahead of LIV Golf's Adelaide event this week. 

Koepka, 32, finished runner-up with fellow LIV player Phil Mickelson at this year's Masters Tournament. It looked like he was going to be the one dawning the green jacket until a final-round 75 at Augusta ruined those chances. 

Instead, the PGA Tour's Jon Rahm won the tournament for his second career major championship. 

This week, Koepka is back to LIV Golf, as the series heads to its fourth event of 2023, and first in Australia.

It will be Koepka's first event since becoming LIV's only two-time winner. 

And while both leagues are now back to their own tournaments this week, as the PGA Tour heads to Louisiana for the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Koepka believes the two coming together at The Masters was good for fans to see. 

“We experience it all behind closed doors at home,” Koepka told reporters, per Golf Channel. “It was just good for the fans to see that we still communicate, we still play together, we still practice together, do everything the exact same. We’re still the same people.”

“I could run into 15 Tour guys if I want to in a day,” he added, “And nobody has really had any negative feedback, any negative thing to say, and that would be the time to say it.”

Dustin Johnson, who won The Masters back in 2020 when it was held in November, said that he had a similar experience at Augusta National earlier this month.

Bryson DeChambeau shared similar thoughts. 

“Everybody that I had previously had relationships with, nothing changed from my perspective,” DeChambeau said. “A lot of it’s the media sometimes. I understand it. I think we all do. But at a certain point in time, we’re all golfers. We still play great golf, and as you can see at the Masters, you had three of the four up at the top were LIV players.”

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