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In this episode, Brandel Chamblee joins Trey Wingo for a candid, no-nonsense conversation about Brooks Koepka — and what a potential return to the PGA Tour would actually look like.
With reports swirling that Koepka may consider leaving LIV Golf, Chamblee breaks down the uncomfortable reality behind the headlines: returning to the PGA Tour isn’t a formality, and it isn’t something that can happen “easily.”
This discussion goes beyond speculation and dives into the real issues at play:
– Why players who left for LIV may face stricter scrutiny than those who stayed
– The precedent a Koepka return would set for the future of professional golf
– How loyalty, competitive integrity, and player accountability factor into reintegration
– Whether the PGA Tour should make exceptions — and what that means for its members
– Why this moment matters not just for Koepka, but for the structure of elite men’s golf
Chamblee lays out the difference between wanting to come back and earning a path back, explaining why the PGA Tour must balance reconciliation with fairness to players who remained loyal during golf’s most turbulent era.
This is not a debate about talent — Koepka’s résumé speaks for itself. It’s a conversation about consequences, credibility, and whether professional golf can move forward without undermining the players who never left.
If you care about the future of the PGA Tour, the long-term impact of LIV Golf, or what accountability looks like at the highest level of the sport, this is a conversation you can’t skip.
Topics include:
– Brooks Koepka LIV exit rumors
– PGA Tour reinstatement realities
– Brandel Chamblee’s stance on loyalty in golf
– LIV vs PGA Tour fallout
– What “coming back” really means in modern pro golf
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36 Comments
Chamblee is a useless tool. He had no talent on tour and still can’t figure out why the golf channel still employs this buffoon.
Was this interview done Before or after Trump kidnapped Maduro? Every golfer who left to join LIV can still play and earn OGWR points on the DP World Tour or the Japan Tour, and eventually back to the New Improved PGA Tour thanks to those guys who left because the PGA was basically stealing money from the players. Funny when originally players left to join LIV Chamblee wanted them to be banished forever but now that Rory has spoken up about how he’d love to see the likes of Brooks and Bryson come back Chamblee has changed his tune, But it’s because they’re Star players who sell tickets, not like the old guys like Westwood. With Chamblee making statements like that he encouraging the two tier have and have not system that’s currently in use now on the Tour.
Welcome back BK! Hope you can qualify for the PGA Tour!
What no one talks about is.… why was it the top stars in the game choose to leave? What is the PGA doing wrong? I have no idea why the PGA members have not started a players' union… Which is so needed.
Happy New Year Mr. Wingo. Great video to start off the new year. Wish you nothing but the best this year. Look forward to all the conversations.
At the end of the day I think a majority of people who watch golf just want to see the best compete against the best. I completely agree with your take Trey that the people who left for LIV only did so for the obscene amount of money they were offered.
I likeBrandel but I agree with Trey, I don’t think Brooks gives a rat’s ass about any event but a Major I think when he played a non-Major, he just phoned it in.
Chamblee is the worst
He should definitely be banned for a year minimum. He knew consequences.
Chamblee sounds so stupid… everyone else in US business and govt are making deals and getting rich off the Saudis but golfers have some bs moral obligation to not take the money.. gtfooh
Excited for this endeavor of Trey Wingo golf. I will belooking forward to it.
Go look at LIV golf attendance during US swing. SOLD OUT! Huge crowds
here we go…journalists, etc…..because the USA are saints ffs enough with the soap box
The leaders do finish last. What are these guys talking about. Everything totally false
I demand to come on the podcast and correct all your fake news
A reentry idea for LIV players. Let them play. Any money earn doesn’t go into their pockets. Perhaps it goes into a junior golf /first tee fund. Once they have earned enough points based on their performance, then can earn money on the tour.
golf doesn't need people like you two it needs players like brooks preforming at the highest level and banning top tier players from playing is an insult to the paying public the pga tour has never been about growing the game it's about growing their own wallets and look what happens when an already bigger wallet shows up and pays player's more money all of a sudden pga tour finds this extra prize money, chamblee is such a hypocrite taking money to give a bought opinion
Don't let that garbage comeback to the best tour in the world
Great perspective as always by Brandel
Brooks should get bonus points for not wearing corny af maxi golf league merch
The world has changed, guys. High school quarterbacks are millionaires. College players change school every year. An NBA player is now playing basketball for Baylor. Why y'all are shocked that golfers follow the money is beyond me. Show me the money!
Big mouth brandel is just spreading pga propaganda. Dubai does the exact same thing Saudi Arabia does but nobody complains about the DP tour and the pga also does business with China. Pga prize money increased BECAUSE of LIV and the players have more control of the pga BECAUSE of LIV and thats exactly what Phil Mickelson was trying to do when he helped start liv. It's also completely ridiculous for brandel to talk about honor, integrity and morals… then he worships tiger woods?!?!
I have been and remain a huge Trey fan since his ESPN NFL days and thoroughly enjoy this podcasts since it launched. Opinions are the crux of these shows, and I agree with most of Trey's. The only issue I have is the name and position "Straight Facts". Some earlier shows have similar examples as follows…today Trey not just implied, but stated, that he did not think LIV defectors Gooch, Koepka, and Johnson thought "through that process at all…they saw big money, what the hell". I believe comments like this are typical sports show/podcast talk meant to express "opinions", which is totally fine (I personally would not claim to know why people do what they do without a quote or a source). They then go on to discuss the difference between how Taylor and Brooks left the PGA Tour. The "fact" the Brooks (and others) resigned how he/they did, making it potentially easier to return than many others, could mean that he gave this way more thought than they imply here. As those who follow this LIV fiasco, Brooks stated that injury was a big reason for him leaving. That is factually giving this more consideration that the expressed opinion. Only those privy to individual negotiations can truly state how it was weighed against the other stuff. BTW – I cannot stand LIV and have never been a Brooks fan. I look forward to more episodes!
Why do we care about 40 IQ Chamblee and his garbage opinions on anything?
The reality TV possibilities of following guys like Brooks through the Korn ferry tour. The purses in that league would increase. That peaks my interest.
This is all fantasy
It’s incredibly obvious who are the “Covid golfers” leaving comments here. The obnoxious ignorance is rampant and obvious. It’s like listening to a libturd comment on ANYTHING.
Allowing these tour 54 guys back on the tour is a slap in the face to every player that DID NOT take the money and stayed loyal to the honor and legacy of the PGA tour.
There most definitely needs to be a financial penalty for these guys and I love the idea of making them get their PGA card and then play on the Korn Ferry tour and get back into the PGA tour the same way the rest of them do. Brookes on the Korn Ferry tour would bring extra eye balls to that tour and the players that are there grinding it out. All financial penalties are to be used for either a charity or used to add money to the pockets of the lower tier players.
Impossible to listen to this windbag
“They” as BC says, took the money. Get over it and let the players earn their spot on the PGA tour. I wouldn’t be surprised if BC had been offered a boat load of money to pontificate about the LIV tour he would have had trouble turning it down.
Big fan Trey. Always enjoy your pods! I understand the controversy around LIV, but aren’t the LPGA players massive beneficiaries of the PIF? Completely agree with the historical element and trying to rehabilitate reputations through sport, but to pretend like SA is the only one doing it (ie. China has the case to be the worst of all), would be disingenuous.
this is why I can't abide by BC's political rambling…or his golf rambling…. picked the wrong guy for this topic
Brandel hits the bulleye so often. Still cannot believe more media doesn't discuss Livv employing Normnn to pretend to be CEO… to con the media and public, and that Livv isn't a 'Normnn concept' as PIF copied Premier Golf Leagues website plan and employed Normnn later as Norman said in June '22 interview.
Can Trump send Delta Force to Scottsdale to catch these two boomers and bring em to justice 🤣💯🤣💯🤣
I usually like Chamblee opinion but he’s sounds foolish with his argument
I’ve said it a million times. Brandel Chamblee moans when he wipes.
I couldn't make it through listening to him speak, sorry. I wanted to know, but then I realized its Chamblee and tuned out.