Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau are ready to up the stakes of the “The Showdown,” an exhibition being staged Tuesday in Las Vegas between the LIV Golf pairing and PGA Tour powers Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy.
“All of us can align and bring something bigger and better so we can have a couple more times where they can — or just at least one more time — where we can see most of the best players from both sides competing, more against each other,” said Koepka, who bolted the PGA Tour for LIV’s inaugural season in 2022 for a contract worth more than $100 million through 2025.
Koepka said a competitive match next week “could transcend golf,” pointing to percolating discussions of progress in months-long merger talks between the PGA and LIV Golf.