Bryson DeChambeau wants PGA Tour return as he pleads for LIV Golf deal

Bryson DeChambeau has told golf’s warring tours they need to get their act together and agree to a deal for the good of the game. 

DeChambeau has undoubtedly enjoyed life since he jumped ship for LIV Golf midway through the new league’s inaugural season in 2022. He’s won two individual titles, including a maiden victory at Greenbrier which included a final-round 58, while his Crushers GC have won five events – though they have yet to take the top prize at the season-ending Team Championship.

Then, of course, there was that second US Open win at Pinehurst in June.

But it hasn’t stopped him yearning for what he used to have.

Just last month, he was asked in a Q&A what he would do if he was LIV Golf commissioner: “I would pick up the phone and call the PGA Tour and say, ‘We need to have a meeting and get this thing worked out now.'”

Now DeChambeau has admitted he misses using golf to make a difference around the United States.

“What I miss the most about the PGA Tour has got to be the tournaments that I have gone to and won at [and] really appreciating the impact in the community that we are able to make,” he explained while appearing on a video for YouTube channel Bob Does Sports.

“Like the Shriners Hospital for Children Open, the Vegas event. I won that and then I was staying after, helping all the kids out and doing a bunch of stuff with the kids. That was really a lot of fun for me.”

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There has been a number of interviews from players who moved to LIV Golf. There was Brooks Koepka’s famous “buyer’s remorse” period, and Jon Rahm has recently admitted he wants a pathway back to the PGA Tour.

DeChambeau has firmly set himself up in the same camp.

“It needs to happen,” he said. “I hope people can just put down their weapons and come to the table and figure it out because that’s what’s good for the game of golf and for fans in general.

“But like I said, any additional capital going into the game of golf is always positive. I’ve always said that. It may not be exactly what we all think it should be, but as time goes on, I think things will settle down in a positive way for both.”

With the two tours seemingly at a stalemate in the negotiations, DeChambeau – as well as Rahm and anyone else wanting a conclusion – will have to wait.

Alex Perry is the Associate Editor of bunkered. A journalist for more than 20 years, he has been a golf industry stalwart for the majority of his career and, in a five-year spell at ESPN, covered every sporting event you can think of. He completed his own Grand Slam at the 2023 Masters, having fallen in love with the sport at his hometown club of Okehampton and on the links of nearby Bude & North Cornwall.

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