Breaking down Brooks Koepka's return to the PGA Tour plus The Big Break II winner Kip Henley talks the show's return and caddying for Vijay Singh
Subpar
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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode GOLF's Subpar, Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz are joined by longtime PGA Tour caddie Kip Henley. The winner of The Big Break II talks why he is excited to see the show return, how caddying for Vijay Singh was different than his other bags on Tour and if he accidentally put an end to the WM Phoenix Open caddie races.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of Subpar. |
| 0:13.3 | And Slees, I don't know if you know there's some rather big golf news just dropped. |
| 0:17.8 | So let's get in. |
| 0:18.6 | Let's get zoned in with our friends over at zone nicotine. |
| 0:22.1 | By the way, speaking of getting zoned in, Scottsdale is gearing up for waste management, |
| 0:26.5 | and we're bringing you a live subpar show less than a month out. |
| 0:30.0 | We'll be at Whiskey Row in Old Town with Zone, drink specials, giveaways, |
| 0:33.9 | obviously some waste management tickets, and plenty of chaos. |
| 0:36.9 | More details coming soon, |
| 0:38.2 | including special guests. Come hang with us Tuesday, February 3rd at Whiskey Row at 6 p.m. It's going |
| 0:44.0 | be a lot of fun. And by the way, the news we're talking about Siles that we're going to get zoned in |
| 0:47.5 | about is from a two-time WM Phoenix Open champion, that being Brooks Kepka, who recently said |
| 0:53.8 | he is stepping away from |
| 0:55.1 | Livgolf in 2026, him and the tour decided to go separate ways. And then as of last week, |
| 1:01.1 | Brooks has applied for reinstatement to the PGA tour. Well, this morning, we learned he has |
| 1:06.8 | been reinstated to the PGA tour. Obviously, a lot comes with that, but Brooks goes on his social media to go on and say he'll be teeing it up at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in just a couple of weeks, as well as the WM Phoenix Open. Yeah, I mean, this is big. This happens so fast. He announced the reinstatement, like right before Christmas kind of went unnoticed just because of the time of the year. And then all of a sudden the speculation starts, what's going to happen. |
| 1:30.5 | You know, we had talked to Pat Perez. |
| 1:32.0 | He said he'd gotten a year from the last time he broadcasted. |
| 1:35.1 | We assumed they would hold Brooks to at least that same standard. |
| 1:37.3 | And lo and behold, they come with the returning membership program, which has been customized for Brooks Kepka. |
| 1:45.6 | Ultimately, and others. |
| 1:47.2 | There's options for others, but this form because Brooks applied for reinstatement. |
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