Patrick Reed would welcome an opportunity to come back to the PGA Tour, potentially to the point that he would leave LIV Golf to do it.
Speaking to multiple outlets, including Golf Digest and the Telegraph, ahead of this week's Hero Dubai Desert Classic on the DP World Tour, Reed, the 2018 Masters winner, said, “Of course, if it were up to me, I’d play everywhere.”
Reed, who has played a globe-trotting schedule before and since joining LIV Golf, suggested he'd add the PGA Tour back such a schedule.
“I'm already playing on three tours, why not add one more?” Reed joked, referring to LIV Golf, the DP World Tour and the Asian Tour, which has a promotion relationship with LIV Golf through its International Series.
“I always enjoyed my time out there on the PGA Tour. Let's be honest, out there, it's the best tour in the world. Look at what they've done in golf … I could see myself playing there at some point again. But right now, you just never know. Everything's so fluid.”
Reed was not eligible to return through the newly created PGA Tour Returning Member Program. The PGA Tour devised this program, available through Feb. 2 for a relatively clean return to PGA Tour membership, and made it available to players who have won a major championship during the existence of LIV Golf (2022-2025) and have been away from the PGA Tour for at least two years. Reed qualifies for the second half but not the first.
Brooks Koepka's PGA Tour return fell under the stipulations of this program, which allows him to retain the remainder of the five-year PGA Tour exemption he got for winning the 2023 PGA Championship. He can't earn any equity stake in the PGA Tour for five years through their performance-based system, and he can't earn any FedEx Cup bonus money in 2026.
Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Cam Smith are the other three LIV Golf players eligible to return under the program, though each has said they are remaining with the Saudi-owned league.
“Right now, it's not even a decision,” Reed said, referring to the Returning Member Program. “That was for ’22 and on winners. So, I definitely would have to think about it … if that number [came] down to 2018. Right now, it's hard to say really what we're going to do or anything like that. Right now, the biggest thing is trying to play some good golf these [two] weeks, not only to solidify myself out here on DP, but to have a good momentum going into the year.”
Sitting at 44th in the Official World Golf Ranking, Reed should get a spot in the PGA Championship and has a reasonable opportunity to get a place in the US Open field. He'll be in the Masters as a past champion.
