Bryson DeChambeau says he'll focus on YouTube if LIV fails

Last week, Saudi Arabia’s PIF, which financed the money-losing start-up, announced last week that it would no long fund LIV Golf after this season. DeChambeau had been under the impression that the PIF was on board to underwrite the circuit for several years to come.

"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."

DeChambeau said he supports LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil and the league's newly appointed independent board of directors and advisers as they develop a new business plan and drum up new investors.

"There's a few different models," DeChambeau said. "Look, the [PGA Tour] isn't doing great either. Let's be honest about the situation. They've got the media. They've got everybody on the side that helps pump it up. But they're reducing field sizes, cutting employees and restructuring their business too."

The PGA Tour and LIV Golf appeared to be on the verge of a deal in February 2025, but talks broke down and both tours have been operating under the premise that a deal is unlikely. DeChambeau said he holds out hopes that a potential merger of the tours could still happen.

"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?'"

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Bryson DeChambeau on LIV Golf's future and growing his YouTube channel