{"id":71272,"date":"2026-04-09T10:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/tom-watson-blasts-pga-tour-over-returns-of-liv-golf-rebels-reed-and-koepka\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:58:17","slug":"tom-watson-blasts-pga-tour-over-returns-of-liv-golf-rebels-reed-and-koepka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/tom-watson-blasts-pga-tour-over-returns-of-liv-golf-rebels-reed-and-koepka\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Watson blasts PGA Tour over returns of LIV Golf rebels Reed and Koepka"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\u2018I thought LIV players were supposed to be banned for life\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Player tells Woods to \u2018not drive a car and get a chauffeur\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The honorary first drive wasn\u2019t the only shot Tom Watson played on the first morning of the 2026 Masters. Moments after taking part in the ceremony Watson, who won eight majors, lambasted the PGA Tour over its recent decision to allow Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed to return from LIV Golf.<\/p>\n<p>Watson said by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jan\/29\/reed-return-to-pga-saudi-golf-experiment-doomed\">reinstating Reed and Koepka<\/a> the Tour had reneged on the promises they made to the players who had remained loyal to them during the schism. \u201cI thought the LIV players, when they left, were supposed to be banned for life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/09\/tom-watson-blasts-pga-tour-over-returns-of-liv-golf-rebels-reed-and-koepka\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I thought LIV players were supposed to be banned for life\u2019 Player tells Woods to \u2018not drive a car and get a chauffeur\u2019 The honorary first drive wasn\u2019t the only shot Tom Watson played on the first morning of the 2026 Masters. Moments after taking part in the ceremony Watson, who won eight majors, lambasted &#8230; <a title=\"Tom Watson blasts PGA Tour over returns of LIV Golf rebels Reed and Koepka\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/tom-watson-blasts-pga-tour-over-returns-of-liv-golf-rebels-reed-and-koepka\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tom Watson blasts PGA Tour over returns of LIV Golf rebels Reed and Koepka\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}