{"id":290801,"date":"2023-10-02T21:41:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=290801"},"modified":"2023-10-02T21:41:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:41:17","slug":"brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates to wear LIV Golf merch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates Rickie Fowler, Sam Burns, Max Homa and Xander Schauffele to wear LIV Golf merch<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Brooks Koepka was the lone LIV Golf player at the Ryder Cup in Rome this week<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rickie Fowler, Sam Burns, Max Homa and Xander Schauffele wore Smash shirts<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brooks Koepka, the lone LIV Golf player at the Ryder Cup, convinced four PGA Tour stars to wear the rebel tour&#8217;s merchandise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following Team USA&#8217;s crushing 16.5-11.5 loss at Marco Simone Sunday, Koepka shared a photo of himself alongside his American teammates\u00a0Rickie Fowler, Sam Burns, Max Homa and Xander Schauffele.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite being on the same team this week, the quartet have remained loyal to the PGA Tour, while Koepka jumped ship to join the breakaway last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But there appears to have been some reconciliation in the American camp over the weekend, as the four PGA Tour loyalists posed alongside Koepka in LIV Golf merchandise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They all donned blue t-shirts with the\u00a0Smash GC, the team Koepka captains on the breakaway series, logo on the front.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/01\/23\/76050775-0-image-a-2_1696199986154.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf&#8217;s Brooks Koepka (center) convinced his Ryder Cup teammates\u00a0Rickie Fowler, Max Homa,\u00a0Sam Burns and Xander Schauffele (L-R) to wear LIV Golf merchandise\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/01\/23\/76050773-0-image-a-1_1696199979476.jpg\" height=\"203\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Koepka appeared to joke that he was on a recruiting drive for the breakaway in the caption\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Koepka joked that he was on a recruitment drive for his LIV team as he captioned the photo: &#8216;I make money moves.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Fowler, Burns, Homa and Schauffele all reportedly turned down lucrative offers to join the rebel series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the future of the golfing world is slightly unclear following the PGA Tour&#8217;s bombshell U-turn on its stance on LIV Golf.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A shock peace treaty was announced in June with the news of a merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf&#8217;s backers, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schauffele admitted following the news of the ceasefire broke that he felt betrayed by the PGA Tour&#8217;s decision after he had stayed loyal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yeah, I guess [betrayal] would be the charged word,&#8217; Schauffele told the Sunday Times in June. &#8216;Irony comes to mind as well. From the messages I&#8217;ve had, everybody is taking it a bit personally, which is fair, to an extent. I was definitely left in the dark, like most guys, which is frustrating from the transparency side. I thought we were making some headway in that department, but obviously not, because there wasn&#8217;t a whole lot of trust in the first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As tour pros, we try to rationalize situations when we compete, but some guys are feeling hot-headed, some are more confused, some are emotional. We have a really interesting group [of players] that are trying to deal with this situation.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the merger on the horizon, Koepka may be attempting to recruit his Ryder Cup teammates to his other team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The photo was shared just six hours after the USA failed to end its 30-year wait for an away Ryder Cup win following its 16.5-11.5 loss to Team Europe in Rome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Europeans dominated the opening three sessions, racing out to a\u00a09.5\u20132.5<span>\u00a0following the Saturday morning foursomes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Americans reduced the deficit slightly Saturday afternoon, going 3-1, before attempting to launch\u00a0a comeback in the Sunday singles, which the Europeans ultimately managed to brush off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/01\/23\/76050779-0-image-a-3_1696200046354.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Koepka was the lone LIV Golf star at Marco Simone this year as the USA suffered a loss\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/01\/23\/76050829-0-image-a-4_1696200121376.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Schauffele admitted following the ceasefire that he felt betrayed by the PGA Tour&#8217;s decision<\/p>\n<p>As the Americans attempted to stop the bleeding, a report emerged that Patrick Cantlay was unhappy with the fact players are not paid to play in the Ryder Cup, which had caused a divide in the locker room.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was claimed that Cantlay was sitting in a separate area of the visitors&#8217; locker room with close friend Schauffele amid a split in the camp, and refused to appear at the gala dinner last week, according to Sky Sports. But Cantlay denied the reports.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Koepka&#8217;s 2022 LIV Golf defection meant he had only played with his Team USA teammates in this year&#8217;s four majors ahead of the Ryder Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was exciting to see everybody,&#8217; Koepka said. &#8216;I felt like had not seen the guys in a few months.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/article-12582385\/Brooks-Koepka-gets-Ryder-Cup-teammates-Rickie-Fowler-Sam-Burns-Max-Homa-Xander-Schauffele-wear-LIV-Golf-merch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates Rickie Fowler, Sam Burns, Max Homa and Xander Schauffele to wear LIV Golf merch Brooks Koepka was the lone <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/\" title=\"Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates to wear LIV Golf merch\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates to wear LIV Golf merch - Sportstoft<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates to wear LIV Golf merch - Sportstoft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates Rickie Fowler, Sam Burns, Max Homa and Xander Schauffele to wear LIV Golf merch Brooks Koepka was the lone [...]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sportstoft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-02T21:41:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeanette\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Brooks-Koepka-gets-Ryder-Cup-teammates-to-wear-LIV-Golf-merch.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeanette\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/\",\"name\":\"Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates to wear LIV Golf merch - Sportstoft\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-02T21:41:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-02T21:41:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Golf\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/category\/golf\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates to wear LIV Golf merch\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sportstoft\",\"description\":\"sportstoft.com\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609\",\"name\":\"Jeanette\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d7cef2e0d8d634cb49d54f7c48b549a1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d7cef2e0d8d634cb49d54f7c48b549a1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jeanette\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates to wear LIV Golf merch - Sportstoft","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates to wear LIV Golf merch - Sportstoft","og_description":"Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates Rickie Fowler, Sam Burns, Max Homa and Xander Schauffele to wear LIV Golf merch Brooks Koepka was the lone [...]","og_url":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/","og_site_name":"Sportstoft","article_published_time":"2023-10-02T21:41:17+00:00","author":"Jeanette","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_image":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Brooks-Koepka-gets-Ryder-Cup-teammates-to-wear-LIV-Golf-merch.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jeanette","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/","url":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/","name":"Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates to wear LIV Golf merch - Sportstoft","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-10-02T21:41:17+00:00","dateModified":"2023-10-02T21:41:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/golf\/brooks-koepka-gets-ryder-cup-teammates-to-wear-liv-golf-merch\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Golf","item":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/category\/golf\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Brooks Koepka gets Ryder Cup teammates to wear LIV Golf merch"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/","name":"Sportstoft","description":"sportstoft.com","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609","name":"Jeanette","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d7cef2e0d8d634cb49d54f7c48b549a1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d7cef2e0d8d634cb49d54f7c48b549a1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jeanette"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}