PGA Tour promised loyalty mattered—it didn’t.

If you’re LIV Golf, shouldn’t you be licking your chops right now? The PGA Tour just created the perfect recruiting pitch: “See who left? He’s back now, with almost no consequences. And those guys who stayed loyal? They’re pissed, even though they are not saying it out loud.”

Here are eight PGA Tour players who have won majors or Players Championships since 2022—the exact criteria that let LIV guys waltz back in. Here’s LIV’s new shopping list:

• Scottie Scheffler – The crown jewel (7 major/Players wins since 2022)
• Rory McIlroy – Just completed career slam, already sounding disillusioned
• Xander Schauffele – Two majors in 2024
• Justin Thomas, Matt Fitzpatrick, Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman, J.J. Spaun – All major champs who turned down LIV money based on promises that no longer matter

The Tour’s “Returning Member Program” was supposed to punish defectors. Instead, it created a VIP pass for anyone with elite credentials. And now LIV can offer these eight guys something the Tour can’t: guaranteed money AND the ability to come back whenever they want.

Hideki reportedly passed on an offer of $300-400 million because the Tour promised defectors couldn’t return. Now Brooks Koepka’s right back in with a slap on the wrist. He’s not confused about what happened; he’s realizing the Tour demanded loyalty they never planned to reciprocate.