{"id":958291,"date":"2026-05-14T01:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/958291\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:57:15","slug":"patrick-reed-reacts-to-liv-golf-bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/958291\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Reed reacts to LIV Golf bombshell"},"content":{"rendered":"

When LIV Golf players were learning last month in Mexico that the league was about to lose its Saudi Arabian funding from the end of the 2026 season, Reed was back home in Texas working on his game and taking his young children to their own sports practice. The American, who stunned the game when he quit the breakaway league<\/a> back in January, has taken a timely pause before this week\u2019s PGA Championship in the outskirts of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a good time at home,\u201d he tells TG after a practice round at Aronimink<\/a>. \u201cI was able to grind a lot and hang out with the kids. I got to see a lot of volleyball and my little man go and do some swimming meets and golf lessons.\u00a0We\u2019re glad to be back on the road and hopefully go out and play well\u00a0because we definitely worked hard at home and feel good.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unusual for Reed not to play between majors, but unique circumstances have dictated a unique schedule for his 2026 season. Unlike Brooks Koepka, who was reinstated immediately to the PGA Tour via the contrived Returning Members\u2019 Program<\/a>, Reed has to wait until August to make his return on the US circuit. He has instead starred on the DP World Tour, where he built up an early lead over Rory McIlroy in the Race to Dubai standings with two wins in three starts. <\/p>\n

But after his tie for 12th at Augusta National last month, Reed has focused his attention entirely on Aronimink, making a comprehensive recon trip to the venue last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely a little different,\u201d Reed says of his preparations. \u201cI like to try to go into the majors a week before and play a couple of times. It\u2019s what I normally do. I was able to come up here last week and play for three days, which was nice. We saw every type of weather you could think of.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Patrick<\/p>\n

In the meantime, LIV Golf has been thrown into chaos without the backing of the trillion dollar Saudi sovereign wealth fund. Reed\u2019s old tour is scrambling for survival<\/a> as it searches for alternate investment, just a few short months after he chose to exit stage left.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was surprising,\u201d he says of PIF withdrawing its funding. \u201cThe biggest thing for me is I hope all the guys and all the players well.\u00a0At the end of the day, I\u2019ve built some great relationships\u00a0with the guys over there on LIV. I hope they keep playing well.\u00a0PIF has obviously pulled out.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where they all stand on the whole situation. \u201cI didn\u2019t see it coming that quick.\u00a0Hopefully the guys continue playing and when they get the opportunities, they play well\u00a0and have a chance, whatever their next journey is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reed decided he was not going to be renewing his LIV contract and began exploring a pathway back to the PGA Tour just days after winning the Dubai Desert Classic in January. That move, he insists, had nothing to do with fears over the league\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore I made my decision, I never really even thought about that,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cI heard they had a meeting in Saudi [at LIV Golf Riyadh in February], but I was already gone by then.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made up my mind.\u00a0I was really comfortable with my decision right when I made it.\u00a0I wouldn\u2019t have made a decision if I wasn\u2019t comfortable and if I didn\u2019t think it was the right thing for myself and my family.\u00a0That was the main reason for me.\u00a0It had nothing to do with really anything else\u00a0or if I felt like the league was going to continue or not. For us, we felt like our best decision and best for our family and everything\u00a0was for me to come back and try to earn my way back to PGA Tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited.\u00a0I\u2019m excited to get back home playing, and spend a little bit of closer time\u00a0near the house with family.\u00a0Hopefully I\u2019ll get back out there and contend on Sundays\u00a0and continue trying to build my legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Patrick<\/p>\n

TG has learned that some of Reed\u2019s former LIV colleagues have sounded out the DP World Tour<\/a> as part of contingency plans if the league does not secure the new funding it needs to survive. It\u2019s understood that routes back to the PGA Tour might be more complicated, though.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know there\u2019s a lot of different pathways to get back to the PGA Tour,\u201d Reed says. \u201cI know some of those guys will be hungry and want to come back out\u00a0and continue playing.\u00a0Hopefully they are able to have an opportunity to come out and play out here.\u201d<\/p>\n

After this major, Reed plans on returning to Europe and is weighing up his schedule with events in Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands before next month\u2019s US Open at Shinnecock Hills. <\/p>\n

Reed confirmed he will make what will technically be his PGA Tour return at the Scottish Open in July. The Rolex Series event at the Renaissance Club near Edinburgh is co-sanctioned with the DP World Tour. Reed\u2019s flying start to the season has offered up the tantalising prospect of a Race to Dubai showdown<\/a> with his rival Rory McIlroy at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always fun going up against Rory and those guys over there,\u201d he says.\u00a0\u201cYou want to go up against some of those best players\u00a0and guys like that and try to go out and give a couple of fireworks.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week, however, the noise is elsewhere and Reed is one of the contenders going under the radar. He\u2019s hardly ring rusty despite his time away and Reed prides himself on an exquisite short game which will stand him in good stead for Aronimink\u2019s biggest defence: the sloping greens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe golf course has some challenges to it. But at the same time, if you\u2019re hitting the ball solid, you can really attack this place,\u201d he says. The greens are generous but at the same time there\u2019s a lot of slope on them. It\u2019s all about not just hitting fairways and greens but also putting it in the right spots.\u201d<\/p>\n

The consensus here is that we are in for another PGA Championship of low scoring, but Reed says that will be entirely depend on the severity of the wind throughout the week. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was here before it was pumping,\u201d the 2018 Masters champion says. \u201cDownwind, you\u2019re hitting drives 350, 360 comfortably.\u00a0Into wind, you\u2019re hitting them 250. If it plays like that, I think you get to 14 or 15 under and you have a chance to win this golf tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When LIV Golf players were learning last month in Mexico that the league was about to lose its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-958291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116570453664644702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}