Was he fred the couples-BROOKS KOEPKA GROUP A UNITY SHOOK? Think again

Augusta, ga. – Look enough in the machinations of the masters tournament and you will not notice that it does not happen very accidentally here. Trees can fall and shooting can be sell, but accidental practice groups? Not so much.

The four Spaniards on the field – they played together on Tuesday. Same for the four Canadians, also in the nine rear. Inexperienced Hojgaard twins focused on studying this confusing course with a delightful veteran – they found one in Charl Schwartzel. Tucked in the middle of everything that was a much more interesting quartet: Fred couples, Justin Thomas and Adam Scott, supporting the back with a fourth intriguing – Liv Golf Brooks Koepka. The context, even if it is simply on paper, is difficult to ignore.

Koepka is one of the Jewel of Liv Golf’s crown. His four -year contract with that tournament has grown soon … ex.

Plessifts hate that rival league with a passion and have no problem saying so publicly.

Thomas is a co -piston pale – often finding each other in the same soft practical range in Florida – and a member of the PGA Tour Government Advisory Council.

Scott ranks even higher, a member of the Tour Board of Policy and one of the Koepka idols. He is sitting in negotiations between the tournament and Livi supporter Pif Saudi. If anyone understands Pro Golf’s models at the moment, and perhaps his future, it’s Scott.

Put differently: If one understands the value of the koepka returning to the PGA Tour is Scott.

For any other liv golf player, the implication can be unfair. But with a coap, there seems to be a attraction. Talk to the right (or wrong) people of the industry in Augusta National and you will hear a lot of fraud about his desire to return to PGA Tour. The same conversation that took pairs in the hot seat a month ago.

“I will say nothing extra, except that I speak with (stream) all the time,” Couples said in early March. “Where are you playing else and, you know, when you go and all these things – and he wants to come back, I will say that. I believe he really wants to return and play the tournament.”

These comments made their way to Koepka – first because the couples texted him – but secondly because he was then asked about his contract during a Liv event in Singapore. “I have a contract obligation here to fulfill, and then we’ll see what happens,” Koepka said. “I don’t know where I’m going, so don’t know how everyone else does.”

Koepka has kept his (public) thoughts on his employer quite harsh. “I think we all hoped it would have been a little further, and that’s no secret,” he said last week, adding that Liv “seems to be going in the right direction.” Depending on your lean, it is either a dose or a dose of reality. But where do you leave us in April, in this master?

Simply enjoying the boys enjoying the walk in a sunny afternoon, with breeze-paws and the koepka coming out in the middle of the first road, out for a four-hole emergency loop subsequently Their loop with nine holes with thomas and scott. How sweet is it?

In the cold war of the third Pro Golf masters, it can be the little things we value most now. For all TV hours and podcast past for a possible reunion of the Pro game, Augusta National is one of the few places that actually happens. Which is part of what makes the constant stalemate so frustrating. It feels a little like Groundhog Day, lighting too tightly in the Camellia tea leaves down the 10th hole to see if they discover anything. They often don’t.

In the masters of 2023, a ceasefire was on the way, but none of the players knew. In 2024, we were told the progress between the warring parties was being done, but it was not. In the interview room here in 2025, Jon Rahm summarized it perfectly: “As far as I can say and you boys can tell, is not happening in no time soon.”

The truth is that couples and koepka have planned to practice together for weeks. Normally, couples play with Thomas and Tiger Woods but Woods Achilles Left space in Tee box for Scott. Finally, Freddie and Brooksie turned from the 18th green to 1, then from the 2nd green to the 8th Tee, where they joined forces with Nick Dunlap. The topics of conversation, according to Freddie, were less tournament politics and more Chase Koepka – Brooks’ brother – or modern equipment, or, as we heard in the 8th Tee: Women’s Golfists who arrived through private plane for Augusta’s national amateur. The plasters shook their heads on the subject of Nile. Koepka said he would have gone out if that kind of money had flowed around him at school. “When I had $ 100 in my pocket, I thought I was rich,” he said.

That was all that we came out of Koepka on Thursday, as he refused to speak with the media. The grooms were more interested in a conversation. He comes to masters to spend a good time.

“It was a big fourth,” the couples said. “These guys hit him amazing. And then to meet Nick Hardy, the couple’s last holes were also fun.”

Nick dunlap; Not brave, but we will cut the pairs of a few clumsy. He has been fighting a virus for three weeks, but he is ready to play it now, and that is all that really seems to matter. He took his 13 holes and left to practice pieces.