Brooks Koepka smartly avoided a level-headed question from Rory McIlroy, LIV Golf during a press conference at the Open Championship amid a merger.
Brooks Koepka has been at the forefront of the LIVGolf The dispute with the PGA, after the announced merger between the leagues, took place in June and is still continuing. Rory McIlroy has been outspoken on the PGA side, and one interviewer tried to get Koepka to speaking on the fault of both groups, but Brooks wasn’t having it.
The journalist used a line interrogation intended to annoy Koepka, seeking to say bad things about McIlroy and the PGA amid rumors of merger deals.
“Do you think some feelings run so deep that they will never be completely resolved between certain players,” he was asked, according to Chris McKee of This Week in Golf. “Or do you think some players, in reference to Rory, need to forget that and move on?”
Koepka was having none of it and made sure to avoid the question to avoid a controversial answer that would fan the flames of the leagues’ rivalry.
“That’s probably a question for them, you should probably ask Rory. I don’t know, I can’t speak for him. Rory and I have had quite a few good talks over the last year, but yeah , everyone has the right to their own opinion,” replied the champion.
Koepka added an additional response for context, saying he is not informed enough about the situation to comment on his opinion at this time, but may in the future when there is more details.
“For me, I don’t even have enough information about it to know what to feel or what to think. It will probably happen in the next few months,” Koepka said.
Brooks and his LIV teammates will once again join the PGA for the weekend Open ChampionshipOr he has a good chance attempt to win the title after previously win the PGA Championship in May.
