Brooks: LIV Golf players 'have no desire to come back' to PGA Tour

Former US PGA champion Mark Brooks considers the professional game is in severe danger of being splintered for good as a result of LIV Golf players having 'no desire to come back' to the PGA Tour. 

Brooks, who won the 1996 US PGA at Valhalla, believes the breakaway Saudi-bankrolled league has contributed to 'absolute chaos' in the pro game right now, and the 63-year-old sees little sign of any reunion of the top players outside of the four majors. 

The seven-time PGA Tour winner thinks it's going to be nearly impossible to get the PGA Tour and PIF-backed LIV Golf League back together again.

With the likes of Jon Rahm signing a reported $600m deal over five years, along with other major champions Brooks Koepka, Cameron Smith and Bryson DeChambeau all on giant contracts, Brooks considers life is far too good for the big boys on the LIV Golf League to even contemplate a return to the PGA Tour.

At least any time soon. 

That's even in light of the PGA Tour's ongoing framework deal with LIV Golf's bankrollers, PIF, on a potential shock commercial deal. 

Although the likes of Jordan Spieth have confirmed talks are progressing nicely between PIF and the PGA Tour, it came to light last month that Rory McIlroy was 'concerned' with the direction the deal was headed. 

“I do think it’s absolutely chaos," Brooks said in a recent interview that appeared in Golfweek.

"I think putting pieces back together, putting humpty dumpty back on the wall, it’s going to be pretty tough.

"Guys don’t want to come back. They don’t have a desire to come back."

Brooks is even somewhat critical of the PGA Tour's eight $20m signature events, at least in the sense they have contributed to weakening other tournaments in the process. 

"Some of these events are, let’s just call it, top 70 shallow," said Brooks.

"Below that they’re heavy. They’re not going into, you know, past champions like me. I’m not showing up on the eligibility list, they’re not going that kind of deep.

"But probably 15 events this year will be very light in terms of the top 70 and you go, well, does that mean anything? Absolutely it means something. Are you kidding me? If I take 62 out of the top 70 out of a field, do I have a better shot of winning? You’re damn, right I do."

The PGA Tour tees up the seventh of its eight signature events at the Memorial hosted by record 18-time major champion Jack Nicklaus at famed Muirfield Village this week.

The majority of the world's best will all return to compete against each other next week at the season's third major, the US Open, which will be held at Pinehurst No.2 in North Carolina.