Bryson DeChambeau has issued maybe probably the most damning assertion but on his future with LIV Golf as he revealed his frustrations with the breakaway league shifting its goalposts.
LIV will play 4 rounds of golf for the primary time in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this week after saying the change throughout the off season to strive earn Official World Golf Rating factors for his or her occasions.
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The potential for that being achieved led to optimistic suggestions concerning the change from the likes of Australians Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman.
However DeChambeau’s response was something however optimistic.
The 2-time US Open champion’s future with LIV stays clouded after Brooks Koepka’s defection again to the PGA Tour and Patrick Reed’s determination to depart the Saudi-backed circuit with a plan to re-join the PGA Tour as soon as he has served a one-year ban in August.
DeChambeau raised eyebrows final month when at LIV’s media days to launch the brand new season, he mentioned by way of gritted enamel: “I’m contracted by way of 2026, so enthusiastic about this yr.”
One other interview he did throughout the media name has been extra scathing, nevertheless.
DeChambeau revealed to The As we speak’s Golfer in an interview that was revealed on Monday, that he’s angered by LIV’s backflip on the size of its tournaments.
“It’s undoubtedly modified away from what we had initially been instructed it was going to be,” he mentioned.
“So there’s some motion that we’ve all been, I might say, excited by, and going, ‘why that motion?’ As a result of we had been instructed it was going to be this. In order that’s undoubtedly made us have some totally different ideas about it….
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“I’ve bought a contract for this yr, and we’ll undergo it there and see what occurs after that. Look, it’s 72 holes, it’s modified, however we’re nonetheless excited to play professionally and play for what we’re doing and go internationally. I feel it’s going to be nice for our workforce.
“Is it what we finally signed up for? No. So I feel we’re speculated to be totally different, so I’m a bit of detached to it proper now…
“Hopefully it weighs positively on me over the course of time, however you by no means know. I’m unsure. We didn’t signal as much as play for 72.”
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DeChambeau together with Smith and Jon Rahm had been supplied a direct path again to the PGA Tour like Koepka.
Not one of the trio adopted Koepka in leaping ship, however the Australian and the Spaniard definitely appear extra dedicated to LIV going ahead than the American.
Former world No.1 Rahm was requested on Monday for his ideas about Reed’s determination to give up LIV and play DP World Tour occasions till he’s free to re-join the PGA Tour, and shared that he holds no animosity in the direction of his fellow inexperienced jacket winner.
“I feel every one has bought to do what’s greatest for them,” Rahm mentioned.
“We’re free to decide on the place we need to play golf. A minimum of that’s the way it needs to be.
“He’s made his selection. I’ve nothing actually towards him.”
Fellow LIV golfer and European Ryder Cup participant Tyrrell Hatton agreed with Rahm.
“He was out of contract and he had choices and he determined that for him to maneuver ahead he wished to return and play on the PGA tour,” Hatton mentioned.
“If he was enjoying in LIV nonetheless, he makes the league stronger. He’s chosen his path and like Jon mentioned you possibly can solely want him the most effective shifting ahead.”