Graeme McDowell replaced as Tony Finau signs - Brooks Koepka's dream LIV Golf team

Brooks Koepka's Smash Golf Club squad whitethorn look precise antithetic successful 2025 aft a disappointing LIV Golf run successful 2024 with a large shake-up perchance connected the cards

Brooks Koepka's LIV Golf squad could beryllium acceptable for a large reshuffle successful 2025.

Despite Koepka's Smash GC squad finishing 4th successful the squad standings, they had a disappointing decorativeness astatine the Team Championship finale successful Dallas, coming past arsenic Cam Smith's Ripper GC clinched the title.

Koepka led from the front, securing 5th spot successful the idiosyncratic wealth database aft bagging conscionable implicit £9.5million ($11.6m). However, there's a consciousness wrong the Smash ranks that they could person done better, considering the calibre of a squad that besides includes Talor Gooch, Jason Kokrak and Graeme McDowell.

With important changes perchance connected the horizon, here's however Koepka's imagination line-up could look adjacent year...

Gooch backmost to his apical form

Gooch had a decent season, ending up 16th connected the database with £4.9m ($6.2m). However, aft topping the idiosyncratic rankings successful 2023, helium volition spot this twelvemonth arsenic a letdown.

At 33, the Oklahoma autochthonal should inactive person his champion years up of him. A instrumentality to his 2023 signifier volition marque Smash a squad to ticker retired for successful 2025.

McDowell shown the door

To accidental 2024 was a immense disappointment for the erstwhile US Open champion would beryllium putting it mildly. The Northern Irishman pocketed a comparatively humble £2.5m ($3m), finishing 33rd successful the wealth list.

The erstwhile Ryder Cup prima didn't conscionable falter connected the course; helium besides faced a prohibition from 1 lawsuit and a hefty £98,000 ($125,000) good for violating anti-doping rules aft utilizing a Vicks nasal spray for acold symptoms.

McDowell's aboriginal hangs successful the equilibrium aft failing to ace the apical 24, the alleged Open Zone, with the anticipation of being dropped by Koepka looming implicit him.

Finau signs

Should McDowell beryllium axed, Koepka mightiness oculus a blockbuster determination for Tony Finau, a PGA Tour heavyweight who has flirted with the thought of joining LIV before.

Finau's adjacent enslaved with Koepka adds substance to the occurrence regarding a imaginable switch, particularly aft Finau expressed to TMZ successful 2023 however overmuch helium missed Koepka, calling him "one of my closest guys connected tour".

The result of merger discussions betwixt LIV's financiers and the PGA Tour and DP World Tour volition beryllium crucial. Despite reports of a £1billion woody breakthrough, golf followers are inactive eagerly awaiting an authoritative announcement that could yet enactment an extremity to the sport's long-standing conflict.

Kokrak retained

Kokrak, who narrowly missed the apical 24 cut-off, could stay connected the team. Keeping the almighty hitter could beryllium a sensible determination for continuity, particularly if McDowell is dropped.

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