What Bryson DeChambeau has been accused of completely ignoring after his comments about a PGA Tour return

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“Bryson may find himself given a term sheet like Brooks Koepka was, saying here are the conditions for coming back, and here’s your charitable dollars, and here’s where you can play and can’t play. Bryson needs to grasp the fact that what really matters is not what’s going to be written on that document, but the things that they will not put in print. And those are two things: context and contrition.

“Brian Rolapp has context here. He’s going to lose giant swathes of the locker room with the changes that are going to be made to the PGA Tour and he’s going to struggle uphill for the next couple of years to get everything done that he wants to do. He’s not going to go out on a limb for Bryson DeChambeau if Bryson’s not going to help him.

“And in terms of the contrition, I think the players on the PGA Tour don’t want to see the LIV guys go flagellate themselves in public, but they want some kind of acknowledgement that you done screwed up here along the way, and they’re not getting it out of Bryson DeChambeau.

“Koepka and Reed played that game really well. But Bryson’s acting as though he would be doing them a favour by coming back, that ‘you need me more than I need you. Send me a plane and throw me a ticker tape parade’, and that’s just not happening for Bryson DeChambeau.”

The PGA Tour are in a much stronger position despite Bryson DeChambeau’s claims

It would be naive to think that DeChambeau would not be a marquee addition to the PGA Tour.

It is easy to forget just how popular he was when he won his second US Open title at Pinehurst. And it was particularly significant just how much support he got given that it was Rory McIlroy who saw the trophy snatched from his grasp.

There would also be plenty who would quite like to portray DeChambeau as a villain. Seeing how that dynamic would play out could be fascinating, if his peers were against the idea of him coming back in the first place.

The PGA Tour has plenty of options to ensure that DeChambeau’s return is beneficial to them. And it really does appear that those at Ponte Vedra hold the majority of the cards – despite what he may claim.