DeChambeau is the No.1 target, as Australian golf powerbrokers launch a bold bid to lure the sport’s biggest superstars down under this summer.<\/p>\n
With Masters champion Rory McIlroy already locked in, it can be revealed that talks are also taking place with DeChambeau in what would rank as the biggest one-two coup since McIlroy and Jordan Spieth graced Sydney fairways more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, it’d be great to have Bryson come,” PGA Tour of Australia chairman Ian Baker-Finch said at Augusta National.<\/p>\n
“And not just Bryson. We are asking all the needle movers; anyone who wants to come down and support the Australian PGA and the Australian Open.<\/p>\n
“I would say they’re the top two needle movers, for sure. And I think just having Rory at the Open there bolsters the field – everyone comes down.”<\/p>\n
McIlroy won the Open at Royal Sydney in 2013, before Spieth reigned at The Australian in 2014 and Royal Sydney two years later.<\/p>\n
But with McIlroy and DeChambeau playing in the final groups together at last year’s Masters and the 2024 U.S Open while splitting a major each, their presence in Australia would renew one of golf’s most compelling rivalries.<\/p>\n
“I think they’d both love to be down there and have the opportunity to play against each other,” Baker-Finch said.<\/p>\n
“Australian golf is in a good place. We just need the community to invest in that and understand that we have some of the best players in the world; certainly many of the top golf courses in the world, and we put a good show on.<\/p>\n
“We already know that Rory’s signed up to come last year and this year and we’re so grateful that he is.<\/p>\n
“It’s turned the Australian Open around, coming back to the Sandbelt, having a great field. The support cast came along as well, which they will always do with the great golf courses.<\/p>\n
“I talk to them all the time and they all want to come, the top players.<\/p>\n
“But it’s not just a matter of inviting someone down. They have to really want to do it for the right reasons and then you’ve got to get the support behind it as well.”<\/p>\n
As a rising 22-year-old, DeChambeau tied for 30th at the 2015 Australian Open at The Australian Golf Club in Sydney.<\/p>\n
This year’s Open will take place at Melbourne’s famed Kingston Heath layout from December 3-6.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Australian PGA Championship will be held the week before, tipped to be in Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DeChambeau is the No.1 target, as Australian golf powerbrokers launch a bold bid to lure the sport’s biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-599090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}