Bryson DeChambeau has been a LIV Golf player for over two years now, and has seen his career go from strength to strength since leaving the PGA Tour in 2022
Bryson DeChambeau left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf (
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Bryson DeChambeau has opened up about the one thing he really pines for since leaving the PGA Tour for the lucrative LIV Golf league – the tournaments he triumphed in back in the States.
The big-hitting American, who jumped ship to the controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf two years ago, faced repercussions when his PGA Tour membership was put on ice.
DeChambeau hasn’t spent much time looking in the rearview mirror after joining the rebel series. Not only has he bagged a couple of individual LIV crowns and the 2023 Team Championship, but he also notched up a blistering round of 58 and clinched his second major at this year’s U. S. Open.
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Yet, despite his new successes, DeChambeau confessed there’s a nostalgic twinge for the PGA Tour events he once dominated. Chatting with Bob Does Sports, he said: “What I miss the most about the PGA Tour has got to be the tournaments that I have gone to and won at.
“Really appreciating the impact in the community that we are able to make. Like the Shriners Hospital for Children Open, the Vegas event. I won that and then I was staying after, helping all the kids out and doing a bunch of stuff with the kids. That was really a lot of fun for me.”
The rift between the PGA Tour and the breakaway LIV Golf might be easing, with chiefs reportedly in talks with the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund regarding a deal to end the rift. Since floating the idea of an agreement in June, discussions have been underway.
DeChambeau has shared the thing he misses about the PGA Tour ( Sam Hodde/Getty Images)
It’s been over 15 months, and players like DeChambeau are still waiting for the green light to return to the PGA Tour as no agreement has been struck yet. The Crushers skipper is vocal about his desire for a ‘merger’, saying during the LIV Mayakoba in February: “You’re just going to see both entities continue to grow, and I hope at some point we’ll come back together.
“It needs to happen. I hope people can just put down their weapons and come to the table and figure it out because that’s what’s good for the game of golf and for fans in general.
“But like I said, any additional capital going into the game of golf is always positive. I’ve always said that. It may not be exactly what we all think it should be, but as time goes on, I think things will settle down in a positive way for both.”
Last month, DeChambeau doubled down on these thoughts. When questioned about his initial move as LIV commissioner, he revealed to Golf.com: “I think I would pick up the phone and call the PGA Tour and say, ‘We need to have a meeting and get this thing [agreement between the two tours] worked out now’.”
