The Presidents Cup gets underway on Thursday, with Bryson DeChambeau among the notable absentees from the US side due to the PGA Tour’s stance on LIV Golf players
Bryson DeChambeau is passionate about team golf (
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Bryson DeChambeau hopes this will be the last Presidents Cup he is barred from competing in.
The Ryder Cup-style tournament, which sees Team USA take on an International Team, minus Europe, begins in Montreal, Canada today (Thursday). Like in 2022, the competition won’t feature any LIV Golf stars, like DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson, who remain sidelined following their decision to join the Saudi-funded tour.
Along with the recently-dropped Ryder Cup ban on LIV players, that was one of the drawbacks of DeChambeau’s decision to resign from the PGA Tour. Speaking ahead of the 2022 edition of the Presidents Cup, DeChambeau said team events were damaging themselves by barring LIV defectors.
He said: “I personally think that the team events are only hurting themselves by not allowing us to play, not allowing us to qualify through some capacity, in some facet.”
However, as a lover of team golf, it would be no surprise if the US Open champion is still following events from Montreal closely. He added: “I’m a golf fan, first and foremost. I’m going to watch golf wherever it’s played with some of the best players in the world, whoever it is.
“I think down the road that’ll change. I think that this will become something special, even more special than what it is now, and moving forward in the future, I’ll still watch other tournaments that I’ve won and done well at before.”
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World number one Scottie Scheffler during a practice round ahead of the Presidents Cup ( Getty)
DeChambeau may soon realise his dream of representing his country again at next year’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage, New York after the PGA dropped its LIV ban. The PGA said: “Going forward, all LIV Golf players are eligible for the PGA Championship and any American player who qualifies for the Ryder Cup on points or is added to the US team as a captain’s pick is eligible to compete.”
Talks over reuniting men’s golf remain ongoing more than a year since the PGA and Europe’s DP World Tour surprisingly announced a “framework agreement” for a merger with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which bankrolls LIV.
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