Having previously declared he would never return to the PGA Tour, Thomas Pieters is now widely expected to make his exit from LIV Golf.

After spending the last two seasons as part of Dustin Johnson's 4Aces GC, the Belgian golfer appears set to join a growing list of departing players that includes Jon Rahm, Sergio Garcia, and Adrian Meronk.

Since joining the tour in 2023, the 33-year-old admitted he might consider retirement should the circuit cease operations. Following its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and the DP World Tour's decision to bar LIV players from upcoming tournaments, LIV Golf now faces the very real prospect of folding.

"I'm definitely never going back to the PGA Tour," the former Ryder Cup star told the 'Dan on Golf Show' earlier this year.

"I never liked that life. That's not me having a go at the PGA Tour, it's not for me.

"I tried it, and I just wasn't happy there. If it [LIV] goes away, I'll probably try and play some on the European Tour, or I don't know. I really don't know.

"I'm not fussed about it at this point because I feel like I still have a duty to focus on these next six, seven tournaments on LIV, and then we'll see. They're obviously trying to get it together next year. We'll see."

Having delivered a remarkable 4-1-1 record on his 2016 Ryder Cup debut, Pieters could prove to be a valuable asset to Luke Donald's squad at Adare Manor next fall - an opportunity that would have remained out of reach had he continued with LIV Golf. The DP World Tour will discontinue granting conditional status to players, a decision that LIV Golf lawyers argue will destroy their league.

"It also raises a lot of the same anti-competitive concerns that LIV has expressed previously regarding the way competing leagues have sought to box out and punish market participants -- namely these players -- from participating in LIV and really only LIV," Robert Fitzgerald, LIV Golf's lawyer, stated.

"Player freedom is the reason LIV Golf was created, and it's the foundation of LIV Golf 2.0, a league built around its players. LIV has been vocal in its belief in free agency and that the best players should have greater flexibility to compete across the ecosystem.

"It's unfortunate that another tour is taking an opposite view and pressuring our players with a false choice."

Both Rahm and Hatton maintained membership in each league, and they competed in the 2025 Ryder Cup as well, where Europe defeated the United States at Bethpage Black.