{"id":561342,"date":"2026-02-02T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/561342\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:01:10","slug":"bryson-dechambeau-throws-doubt-on-liv-golf-future-as-he-laments-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/561342\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau throws doubt on LIV Golf future as he laments changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Bryson DeChambeau is committing to LIV Golf for 2026, his future with the Saudi-backed rebel league is completely up in the air<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And an unexpected change made by LIV Golf might cause him to leave.<\/p>\n

LIV is expanding from its three-round, 54-hole format to a more traditional four-round, 72-hole structure for the 2026 season, breaking away from the signature setup that the league is even named after; LIV is the roman numeral for 54.<\/p>\n

\"BrysonBryson DeChambeau during the Ryder Cup on Sept. 28, 2025. Sportsfile via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely changed away from what we had initially been told it was going to be,\u201d DeChambeau recently told Today\u2019s Golfer<\/a>. \u201cSo there is some movement that we\u2019ve all been, I would say, interested in, and going, \u2018Why that movement?\u2019 Because we were told it was going to be this. So that\u2019s definitely made us have some different thoughts about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a contract for this year, and we\u2019ll go through it there and see what happens after that. Look, it\u2019s 72 holes, it\u2019s changed, but we\u2019re still excited to play professionally and play for what we\u2019re doing and go across the world. I think it\u2019s going to be great for our [Crushers GC] team. Is it what we ultimately signed up for? No. So I think we\u2019re supposed to be different, so I\u2019m a little indifferent to it right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, it weighs positively on me over the course of time, but you never know. I\u2019m not sure. We didn\u2019t sign up to play for 72.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brooks Koepka, who left the PGA Tour for LIV in 2022, recently departed LIV<\/a> to return via the Tour\u2019s new Returning Member Program, a \u201cone-time\u201d window for high-performing golfers that closes Monday. Koepka just competed in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines this past weekend, finishing tied for 56th at 4-under, 19 shots behind winner Justin Rose.<\/p>\n

Patrick Reed is also leaving LIV for a PGA Tour return<\/a>, though he didn\u2019t qualify for the Returning Member Program because he didn\u2019t win a major or the Players from 2022-25; he\u2019s eligible to play on the Tour starting on Aug. 25, a year after his last LIV event.<\/p>\n

DeChambeau previously floated the idea of focusing full-time on his YouTube channel, which boasts 2.58 million subscribers, and playing only in major championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an incredibly viable option, I\u2019ll tell you that,\u201d he told Front Office Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Bryson DeChambeau is committing to LIV Golf for 2026, his future with the Saudi-backed rebel league is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":561343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[10125,1430,19413,1456,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-561342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bryson-dechambeau","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-liv-golf","11":"tag-pga-tour","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116002113646154977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}