LIV Golf is having itself a week. After landing Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson for its first event at the Centurion Club in London, the first LIV Golf draft was held on Tuesday evening and everyone in the golf world was fixated on the spectacle of it all. Now, the league has confirmed the addition of 2020 U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau with others rumored to follow shortly after that.
“Bryson is an exciting addition to LIV Golf’s supercharged style of play,” said LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman. “He is passionate about the sport, innovative in his approach and committed to pushing the boundaries in pursuit of excellence.”
DeChambeau will join the Saudi Arabian-backed league for its second event at Pumpkin Ridge in Portland, Oregon, from June 30-July 2. Though his name had been rumored for a while, this still comes as a bit of a surprise and provides LIV Golf with a ton of momentum as it heads into its inaugural eight-event season.
“Bryson has always been an innovator,” his agent said in a statement. “Having the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of something unique had always been intriguing to him. Professional golf as we know it is changing and it’s happening quickly.”
After missing time with an injury, DeChambeau made his first PGA Tour appearance in several months last week at the Memorial Tournament, where he missed the cut. His intentions clearly changed over the last seven days.
“I think that’s mostly –- a lot of it is private,” DeChambeau said last week at Muirfield Village. “There’s not really any conversations that need to be made about that, other than the fact that, like, every person out here has their own opinion on it. Me, there’s obviously a lot of conversation. For me, I personally don’t think that at this point in time I’m in a place in my career where I can risk things like that.
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