Jason Kokrak says a phone call from Brooks Koepka convinced him to sign with LIV and Smash GC. From This Week In Golf with host Chris McKee.
you’re absolutely RedHot winning four tournaments between October 2020 to December 2021 then at some point around that time you get a phone call or email from your agent or manager telling you about this new golf league you know just talk about your initial reaction to that to kind of how you end up making the move to live well I mean I kind of started off being a a golf Saudi Ambassador for uh a couple of years and you know all the talks about another League coming about and you know all the animosity that was causing on the PG tour but um you know when I got the call I you know I was semi interested because I’ve already had a you know pre-existing relationship with those guys so um I I wasn’t uh you know all for it at first I wasn’t against it by any means but uh it was kind of all about the just a situational uh thing about who was going who was making the jump and who I was going to go with um long story short I made uh they made a couple of attempts and a couple offers I said no to and kind of you know put that to put that to rest and then Brooks called me uh right around the US Open at the Country Club and uh we talked about it and you know we kind of got an offer on the table for him and an offer on the table for myself and it made sense to to sign on together and you know move move forward and you know do this whole live thing and see how see how it goes so it was uh definitely uh you know a lot of stress on me and my family and you know making that that type of a decision you know getting just walking away from the PGA Tour I I hope that you know everything Co comes to back together at least I can go play a couple of the events that I won but uh that that’s really the some of the tournaments I do miss miss going to play but uh yeah it was quite interesting the the about six months six plus months of you know negotiation and you know talking with them am I going am I not and you know there was a lot of speculation uh if if I was going and a lot of people were coming to me for answers and I was just like you guys probably know more than I do but uh it’s just kind of going with the flow and if the offer was right and uh you know after Brooks called me and wanted me to sign on with his team for uh a better part of however long our contract is I can’t even remember now but uh enjoying it a lot more time with uh my family back home in Cleveland and you know uh it’s uh definitely takes the ease of the the the day-to-day week toe grind on the PJ tour
