Bryson DeChambeau was at a low ebb when he made the jump from the PGA Tour to LIV. Suffering from a wrist injury that would eventually require surgery, DeChambeau had missed the cut in each PGA Tour start – apart from the no-cut Sentry Tournament of Champions and the WGC Matchplay – prior to the move, but has since recovered to become a two-time LIV tournament winner and won a second U.S. Open at Pinehurst in June.
DeChambeau is now a firm fan favourite, thanks in no small measure to his prolific YouTube channel that has seen former president Donald Trump among others join him for various golf challenges.
It was on the ‘Breaking 50’ series where the big-hitting Texan and the presidential candidate played a two-man scramble off the forward tees in an effort to shoot 49 or lower, and in the latest installment, DeChambeau told fellow YouTubers Bob Does Sports of his desire to see a resolution reached which would see the best golfers in the world back in regular competition with one another.
“What I miss the most about the PGA Tour has got to be the tournaments that I have gone to and won at [and] really appreciating the impact in the community that we are able to make,” he explained.
“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.”
Jon Rahm is among others who claimed that they are eager to tee it up in PGA Tour events and the current LIV Individual champion is back in DP World Tour action as he looks to throw his name into the hat for Ryder Cup selection in 2025.
Quite what a resolution may look like is anybody’s guess at present, but DeChambeau thinks that it needs to happen sooner rather than later for the general good of the game.
“It needs to happen,” he said. “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.”