Australian golf star Smith makes PGA Tour decisionSteve LarkinAAPWed, 14 January 2026 6:02AM
Cameron Smith has rejected an offer to rejoin the US PGA Tour, saying he’s committed to stay on the breakaway LIV Golf circuit for the foreseeable future.
Smith and some other major winners on the LIV tour had been given a “one-time” offer to follow Brooks Koepka and return to the PGA Tour.
But Australian star Smith says he didn’t even consider the PGA offer.
“No,” Smith told reporters on Wednesday.
“I have made by bed and I’m going to sleep in it.
“I feel like I’m in a really good place in my career and my life, family life, and I don’t need to change it.”
Smith was an inaugural LIV Golf signing in 2022, accepting a deal reportedly worth about $150 million, and captains the all-Australian Ripper GC on the LIV Tour.
“I’m going to stay, mate,” said Smith, the 2022 British Open champion.
“I have made a decision to come here (to LIV) and I’m standing by it.”
Smith and two other major winners playing on the LIV circuit – Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm – were given an offer to return to the PGA Tour, with a February 2 deadline to decide.
The offer followed US star and five-time major winner Koepka’s decision to depart LIV and return to the PGA Tour.
Koepka accepted stringent restrictions on his financial benefits and a charitable donation of $A7.45 million to return to the PGA under what the US-based tour has dubbed the “Returning Member Program”.
The offer to return was made to Smith, Rahm (2023 Masters winner) and DeChambeau (2024 US Open champion) because it applied to players who have won any of the four majors or the Players Championship between 2022 and 2025.
Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson, an outspoken critic of the PGA Tour, was pointedly excluded by the criteria by just one year – his last major win came at the 2021 US PGA Championship.
Smith was unaware of the intentions of Rahm and DeChambeau.
“I can’t speak for the other guys, really. To be honest, I don’t know what they’re going to do,” he said.
“We have it pretty good out here (at LIV) and I’ve made my decision.
“I can only assume that theirs will be very similar. But like I said, I can’t comment on what they’re going to do.”
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