Rose on LIV Golf players returning: “No hard feelings”

Justin Rose is ready to welcome back a host of former PGA TOUR players, Major champions to the DP World Tour next season.

LIV Golf 1.0 has ended and many players have jumped shipped.

But they aren’t welcome back … yet … to the PGA TOUR. The likes of Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed took early punishment and bans but many others continued on with LIV Golf even after the PIF withdrew funding.

Now the PGA TOUR has played hard ball leaving top players like Jon Rahm, Cameron Smith and Joaco Niemann no other option but to take up DP World Tour membership next season.

“No hard feelings from my point of view. Everyone is welcome back,” said Rose.

Joost Luiten disagrees.

“It’s great for golf for players to be able to play against the best players in the world as often as we can …

“That’s what we’ve always talked about and always wanted. And I think the disruption of it all, the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, have had to become better versions of themselves.”

He added: “I think basically pretty much every player in the game has benefited one way or another, and hopefully it can now settle and we can find a really good balance.”