The future of the LIV Golf Tour beyond 2026 is uncertain following the divestment of Saudi Arabia. The PGA has made it clear that it doesn’t plan on welcoming any former LIV golfers with open arms, but one of LIV’s top athletes is fine with focusing on other things should LIV cease operations.
“I think, from my perspective, I’d love to grow my YouTube channel three times, maybe even more,” Bryson DeChambeau said, while preparing for this week’s LIV Golf tournament at Trump National Golf Club, per ESPN.
“I would love to. I’d love to do a bunch of dubbing in different languages, giving the world more reason to watch YouTube. And then I’d love to play tournaments that want me.”
He also revealed that he was blindsided by the news that LIV’s future was murky.
“I was completely shocked,” DeChambeau said. “I didn’t expect it to happen. A couple months before that, it’s like, ‘We’re here until 2032. We’ve got financing until 2032,’ and so I told everybody, and that’s what I was told.
“And then, you know, I haven’t had any communication. And unfortunately, things are moving on in a different direction. Obviously, they wanted to move on.”
Burying the hatchet?
DeChambeau does see a world where both sides can come to an agreement on a particular merger, though.
“If we have a great business model and they’re very interested in combining forces, that’s the Kumbaya moment, right?” DeChambeau said. “So, it’s our job to come up with a better business plan on the [top company] side. The team franchises, there’s enough making profit now to where we could sell them for close to $200 million, and that’s not talking about my team either.
“I think it requires a little bit of everybody kind of just lowering their guards and all coming together and going, ‘OK, what’s best for the game of golf?'”
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