Brooks Koepka reveals best part of PGA Tour comeback (and worst)

Despite a false WD scare, Brooks Koepka is in the field at this week's 2026 Genesis Scottish Open. And based on his pre-tournament press conference at the Renaissance Club, he couldn't be happier about it.

This week's event is the 14th start of Koepka's surprise return to the PGA Tour following years of playing at LIV Golf.

Although his comeback has not been entirely smooth, the five-time major champion feels better than his results have shown so far, both on and off the golf course.

On Wednesday, the open and outspoken Koepka revealed what he's most excited about so far in his PGA Tour comeback, while also revealing his biggest disappointment.

Koepka says PGA Tour return has brought him 'joy'

When news broke in January that Koepka had rejoined the PGA Tour through the Returning Member Program, it shocked the golf world.

But it was no surprise to Koepka and his wife, Jena. As Koepka revealed at the Scottish Open, they have been working on his comeback, and keeping their plans a secret, for a while.

Koepka admitted it wasn't “easy” to keep such an important career and life change under control. But the relief Koepka felt when his return to the Tour became a reality, and the excitement that followed, are the things that excite him the most about his return.

“What am I most happy about? I think – yes, I think I'm very happy – this will probably be mixed with a little selfishness, but the happiness I have,” Koepka revealed to reporters on Wednesday. “Maybe it's a weight off my shoulders, or maybe not – it's been a secret for a while. So it's not the easiest thing.”

His performance on the course — which included four missed cuts and only one top 10 — is not the source of his newfound satisfaction. Instead, it's Koepka's wife and son — and the ability to spend more time with them on the PGA Tour than on LIV — that has brought him “joy.”

“But I see happiness. I see that I can be around my son a lot. Jena is able to be there and they can attend many events. Things like that, those things bring me joy,” explained Koepka. “Whether I'm playing good or bad, I'm walking off the 18th green, my wife and my son there too, it's cool, it doesn't matter – my son doesn't care if I shoot 80 or 65, he doesn't know the difference. It's 'Da-Da'; he walks that way and runs to me. It's cool.

As for the least fun thing since returning to the PGA Tour, Koepka scoffed at “my putting,” before admitting that his game and life are changing after he felt like he couldn't “relax” on the course in his final season with LIV Golf.

“I feel like last year I wasn't in the right frame of mind to play good golf, and now that everything is fixed and I'm in better shape – we all have that, right? Life,” Koepka said. “Sometimes it's easy and sometimes it's hard. There's a lot of things, like I said, off the golf course, on the golf course, it doesn't matter. I didn't feel like I could take a break, as a player, as a person, as a family. Yes.”

That excitement served him well in Thursday's opening round at the Renaissance Club, where Koepka shot a four-under 66 to move closer to the top of the leaderboard at the Scottish Open debut.

LIV professional mum Koepka returns to PGA Tour

Although Koepka has spoken at length about himself, he was short on words when it came to LIV Golf.

Some LIV Golf professionals are allowed to play in this week's Genesis Scottish Open because it is jointly sanctioned by the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour.

Tyrrell Hatton and Jon Rahm, who recently ended stints with the DP World Tour, took advantage of the rare opportunity to win a PGA Tour-sanctioned event as current LIV players.

When asked if his LIV tour partners were allowed to combine it was a sign of a pro golf reunion, Koepka simply said, “I'm not part of those discussions, so I don't know.”

He was then pressed if he would like to see a “return to normality” in golf, again refusing to give his opinion, instead saying he was “very focused” on himself.

“I don't have an opinion either way. I'm very focused on myself. I think the one thing I think I've learned from all of this is that if I can focus on myself and be a better golfer, a better father, husband, whatever, I'm doing more than what I want to do right now, and being with them and playing good golf,” Koepka said. I feel like that's all that matters to me. What happens to everybody, I don't care.”