Brooks Koepka's wife reacts to PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger

Brooks Koepka’s wife had a nice reaction to the PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger, putting a positive spin on the bombshell golf news.

Koepka, who just won the PGA Championship, his fifth major, joined LIV last year. The golfer already tweeted and took a shot at Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee, an outspoke critic of LIV. 

But Koepka’s wife, Jena Sims, took to Instagram to celebrate the tours coming together.

“It’s a good day to have a good day,” Sims wrote alongside Golf.com’s report of the merger, concluding her message with a handshake emoji.

In a line from from Golf Digest that read, “The PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which is the primary financial backer of LIV Golf, have announced a treaty and potential merger, ending two years of civil war in professional golf,” Sims wrote in a separate Instagram Story: “And on social media to innocent bystanders and families of the players who joined LIV.”

Koepka was seemingly happy about the merger and Phil Mickelson, the poster boy for LIV when it came to fruition, celebrated PGA and LIV coming together.

There are positive spins on the story, but players were left in the dark about the move from the tours. PGA players found out about the merger with LIV on Twitter, just as the rest of the world did.

PGA-LIV Tours merge in stunning announcement

All of those players in the dark were stunned by the news and in a reported meeting with PGA commissioner Jay Monahan, things got heated. A lot of golf fans called for his resignation.

Monahan was highly critical of LIV Golf dating back to the Saudi-backed tour’s start in June 2022. Additionally, the PGA Tour suspended LIV Golf players from competing in Tour events. One year later, the two parties are working together.

“It was contentious,” three-time PGA Tour winner Johnson Wagner said of the meeting with Monahan, via Big News Network. “There were many moments where certain players were calling for new leadership of the PGA Tour and even got a couple standing ovations.

“I think the most powerful moment was when a player quoted commissioner Monahan from the 3M [Open] in Minnesota last year when he said, ‘As long as I’m commissioner of the PGA Tour, no player that took LIV money will ever play the PGA Tour again.’ It just seems like a lot of backtracking.”

The two tours were at the center of an antitrust lawsuit in which LIV sued the PGA Tour for bad faith and “egregious interference with LIV Golf’s contractual and prospective business relationships,” according to Golf Digest.

Eleven players were involved in the suit, but they all removed their names as a result.According to CNBC, however, the PGA Tour and LIV Golf would “squash pending litigation and move forward as a larger golf enterprise.”