DeChambeau Considers Full-Time YouTube Move After LIV Golf Funding Vanishes
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DeChambeau has floated the idea of moving full-time to YouTube this year as he negotiates his contract with the league, but recent comments come after the league's funding vanished. LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil was adamant the league would be funded through 2032 at the Masters before
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ESPNSTERLING, Va. -- If LIV Golf can't survive beyond this season without the Public Investment Fund's purse strings, two-time major champion Bryson DeChambeau said Tuesday that he's prepared to grow his YouTube channel and play in tournaments that want him.
Yahoo SportsBryson DeChambeau has a plan if LIV Golf doesn’t survive after the 2026 season, and it doesn’t include rushing back to the PGA Tour.
Sky SportsThe USA's Bryson DeChambeau tells media he will focus on growing his YouTube channel over a potential return to the PGA Tour if LIV Golf fails; last week, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced it would be cutting its funding after 2026 season
BBC SportPublished Bryson DeChambeau says he will focus on growing his YouTube channel and only "play tournaments that want me" if LIV Golf does not survive.
The Guardian SportDeChambeau joined LIV Golf in June 2022 on a reported $125m contract that expires at the end of this season. He was among 11 golfers who sued the PGA later that year. The federal lawsuit, which DeChambeau withdrew from in May 2023, alleged that the PGA Tour unfairly suspended players who joined LIV Golf via its monopoly power.
SMH SportSmith’s sentiments about LIV Golf’s future were shared by other stars in their media duties in Washington, where LIV will play its first US event of the year at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia. Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemann all said they hoped the league would continue, albeit with potential to be on a smaller scale financially and operationally.
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"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.
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ESPN"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.
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The Queenslander has endured a horror run in the four majors – The Open, US Open, Masters and PGA Championships – dating back to the Open in 2024. Missing the cut at this year’s Masters was the sixth-straight time Smith hasn’t played on the weekend in a major.
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The Guardian SportHe also failed to make the weekend action at last month’s Masters. “Early in my career, I hung my hat on how I performed in the majors,” Smith said. “And it’s just not good enough. I am making a few changes and trying to get back to where I was and better.
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“I was completely shocked,” DeChambeau said about the PIF’s decision to pull funding. “I didn’t expect it to happen. A couple of 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.
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From there, he could conceivably work just on growing his YouTube channel between majors. As of Tuesday night, he had just shy of 2.7 million subscribers there. It’s not like he wouldn’t be practicing and playing golf while doing that, it just wouldn’t be as competitive for him as it is now.
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01 CBS Sports The two-time U.S. Open champion has been public about his desire to take his side hustle full-time the last few months
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02 The Guardian Sport The future of the Saudi-backed breakaway remains in doubt after the country’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced plans to withdraw financing at the end of the year, having spent more than $5.4bn on the venture since 2022.
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03 Sky Sports "If we have a great business model and they're [PGA Tour, DP World Tour] very interested in combining forces, that's the Kumbaya moment, right?
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04 BBC Sport The two-time US Open winner said he was "completely shocked" by the PIF announcement as he believed it would finance LIV Golf until 2032.
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05 SMH Sport Aussie golf star Cameron Smith says he has no plans to retire and hopes the LIV Golf tour – and its popular Adelaide tournament – will continue in the future, despite the loss of billion-dollar Saudi backers, the PIF.
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06 ESPN The PGA Tour seems to have the most leverage now, after the PIF announced last week that it will no longer fund the circuit with $30 million purses.
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07 Bleacher Report "I understand uncertainty is difficult for some people," O'Neil said Tuesday from Potomac Falls, Virginia, two days in advance of LIV holding an event at Trump National Golf Club in Washington, DC, per Barry Svrluga of The Athletic. "And I understand that not knowing what tomorrow brings can be a challenge. This is 100 percent what I love to do."
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