Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka will leave LIV Golf after the 2025 season, ending one of the breakaway league’s highest-profile partnerships as he prioritizes family life. The 35-year-old, who joined LIV in 2022 in a deal reportedly worth more than 100 million dollars, will not compete in the LIV Golf League in 2026 and must now navigate complex eligibility and disciplinary rules if he chooses to return to the PGA Tour.Koepka leaving LIV GolfLIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil confirmed that Koepka will “no longer compete in the LIV Golf League, following the 2025 season,” describing the decision as amicable and stressing that the player is “prioritizing the needs of his family and staying closer to home.”
Talor Gooch will replace Koepka as captain of Smash GC, underlining that LIV is moving quickly to reorganize its team structure around a new leader ahead of the 2026 campaign.
Koepka’s management echoed the family-first rationale, saying “family has always guided Brooks’ decisions” and that he sees this as “the right moment to spend more time at home,” while emphasizing that he remains a “huge supporter of LIV Golf” despite exiting the league as a player.
The shift comes after a difficult personal period, with Koepka’s wife, Jena, revealing in October that she suffered a miscarriage at 16 weeks; the couple also has a two-year-old son, Crew, adding emotional context to his desire to reduce travel and tour demands.
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Family reasons and personal contextKoepka’s camp publicly thanked Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund that finances LIV Golf, as well as O’Neil, the league’s management, teammates and fans, signaling that the separation is structured to avoid public acrimony or legal confrontation.
That tone is notable given the contentious history between LIV and the PGA Tour, where player moves have often triggered lawsuits, suspensions and intense public debate over money, loyalty and the future of professional golf.LIV Golf record and recent strugglesOn the course, Koepka departs as LIV Golf’s most decorated individual player to date, becoming the first competitor in the league to win five individual titles, capped by a playoff victory at The Greenbrier in August 2024 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
During his tenure as Smash GC captain, he collected multiple trophies across individual and team events, reinforcing his reputation as one of the most formidable big-event competitors of his generation.
However, his 2025 form dipped sharply: Koepka finished 31st out of 54 players in LIV’s season-long individual points standings, managed only a runner-up finish in Singapore in March, and failed to crack the top 15 in his final eight starts of the year.
His major-championship season was similarly disappointing; he missed the cut in three of the four majors and posted his best finish with a tie for 12th at the US Open at Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania.
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