Bryson DeChambeau must join LIV exodus and quit $500m riches if he wants to join Masters legends
Bryson DeChambeau is blowing it — again.
While Rory McIlroy celebrates life as a back-to-back Masters champion, DeChambeau can’t even make the cut at Augusta and will soon return to the almost invisible LIV tour.
Time for DeChambeau to leave LIV
Does DeChambeau care more about having 4.5 million Instagram followers than winning the most prestigious golf tournament in the world?
Is he more concerned about reaching 3 million YouTube subscribers and 3D-printing his own golf clubs than truly being one of the best golfers on the planet?
Once again, they’re legit questions for a unique talent who’s seen his public perception yo-yo for years.
DeChambeau – a two-time major champion already – has bounced between loathed, liked, super cool and hated ever since he began slamming power drives.
After McIlroy made history and held off Scottie Scheffler by one career-defining stroke on Sunday, DeChambeau wasn’t even in the Masters conversation.
“Well LIV players are now just Hollywood fake. Courses they play are not even close to PGA level,” tweeted one fan, after DeChambeau triple-bogeyed the 18th hole on Friday and failed to make the weekend cut.
“Can he 3D print himself a new brain so he can actually be good at golf?” a second fan posted.
“Go back to the shorts tour!” a third fan said.
McIlroy beats DeChambeau on and off the course
“That’s what playing on the bush league LIV golf tour does to one’s competitiveness,” a fourth fan wrote.
The 32-year-old DeChambeau has nine PGA Tour wins, $36.9 million in PGA earnings and edged McIlroy to win an instant-classic 2024 US Open.
But while McIlroy has become a global name and elevated the sport in a post-Tiger Woods era, DeChambeau has allowed himself to get lost in the woods of video views, social media influencing and big-money tournaments that are largely ignored.
His LIV contract is set to expire after the 2026 season and he could reportedly receive a new $500m payday to remain with the struggling tour.
Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed have already quit the Saudi-backed circuit, while Jon Rahm stays and remains in ongoing dispute with the DP World Tour that risks his Ryder Cup reputation.
But DeChambeau already has an estimated net worth in the $50m range, so how much money does the Crushers leader really need?
McIlroy once was burdened, major after major and year after year, with the shadow of never being able to conquer the biggest tournaments in the world.
When he gave the 2024 US Open to DeChambeau, he avoided the media aftermath, and it appeared that McIlroy couldn’t handle the internal and external pressures that never relented.
DeChambeau needs another image reset
That view is laughable now, and McIlroy has evolved into the strongest golfer on the planet.
Two years later, DeChambeau is battling with the media and shooting six-over before he’s knocked out of Augusta.
LIV is holding back DeChambeau, on and off the course.
If he re-ups with a second-rate tour for another cash grab, the ‘Mad Scientist’ will show the golf world that he cares more about likes, views and subscribers than winning McIlroy’s gorgeous green jacket.
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