Bryson DeChambeau LIV Golf exit, Digi Mart USA News: Bryson DeChambeau appears to have confirmed his LIV Golf exit, telling fans he “gave it everything” to keep the league alive. LIV Golf has confirmed plans to wind down operations and enter liquidation, abandoning hopes of launching a new version due to a lack of financial backing.
Lawyers representing the company confirmed the plans during a bankruptcy hearing in New Jersey on Thursday. DeChambeau has until November 15 to declare his intention to become a DP World Tour member in 2027, or risk being frozen out of professional golf.
DeChambeau defended his decision to join LIV from the outset and thanked his supporters in a statement posted on X on Sunday. “I’m not going to rewrite the last four years,” he wrote.
“I made a decision I believed in, and I’m grateful for what came with it: playing in front of fans new and old around the world who rarely got to see the best players at home. The record crowds in Adelaide and Johannesburg will stick with me for the rest of my life.
“I believed this game could reach more people, in more places, in a new way. I still believe that.
And I gave it everything I had to keep team golf alive.” He thanked the staff, operations crews, caddies and others behind the scenes at LIV and Crushers GC, as well as his Crushers team-mates, sponsors and fans.
“I still believe in team golf. It may look different in the future, but I still believe it’s essential to growing the game.” The two-time major champion said last week that he was hopeful the league could “exist forever,” and revealed he had played a role in plotting out how LIV 2.0 could move forward.
Despite LIV’s impending liquidation, DeChambeau remained tight-lipped about his own future. “Arnold Palmer said no player is bigger than the game, and I want to acknowledge that, along the way, I’ve said some things that didn’t help.
Whatever comes next, I’ll approach it with humility and respect for the people who carried this game long before me.”
He said he will compete at the Nedbank Golf Challenge, Gary Player’s event, in December. “My passion has been to grow this game.
That’s still the goal. Thank you for sticking with me.”
Sky Sports News analyst Jamie Weir wrote that DeChambeau had been the only LIV team captain in an August meeting who still passionately felt there was a way forward, and that no one was willing to join him. By winning the 2024 US Open at Pinehurst, DeChambeau earned a five-year exemption on the DP World Tour.
Under the tour’s rules, he lost his exemption for 2028 and 2029 after failing to take up membership in 2025 and 2026, but he can still take up membership for the 2027 season if he informs the tour by November 15.
