{"id":619945,"date":"2026-04-20T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619945\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:03:10","slug":"bryson-dechambeau-mulling-future-looking-at-options-outside-of-liv-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619945\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau Mulling Future, Looking at Options Outside of LIV Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\">Jon Rahm may have won in Mexico City, but LIV Golf\u2019s week south of the border was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skratch.golf\/news\/news\/liv-golf-shutting-down-saudi-arabia-pif-pulling-funding-reports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clouded with rumors regarding its future<\/a>. Eventually, it was reported that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skratch.golf\/news\/news\/liv-golf-shutting-down-saudi-arabia-pif-pulling-funding-reports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund would be pulling its support after the 2026 season<\/a>. Scott O\u2019Neil, the league\u2019s CEO, all but confirmed this in an interview that was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skratch.golf\/news\/news\/liv-golf-ceo-scott-oneil-interview-delete-post-funding-saudi-pif\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">taken down and reposted with that tidbit redacted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\">Now, the future of its biggest star is very much in doubt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7210948\/2026\/04\/20\/liv-golf-whats-next-funding-saudi-arabia-pif\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to The Athletic<\/a>, Bryson DeChambeau met with multiple organizations during Masters week to discuss options if he were to leave LIV at the end of the year. With his contract set to expire, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7210948\/2026\/04\/20\/liv-golf-whats-next-funding-saudi-arabia-pif\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Athletic reported that he could seek $500 million<\/a> to re-sign. Without the PIF, that number would put LIV\u2019s chances of getting DeChambeau back in the improbable range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\">RELATED: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skratch.golf\/news\/news\/liv-golf-bryson-dechambeau-complain-course-conditions-mexico\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bryson DeChambeau Complains About Course Conditions at LIV Golf Mexico City<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\">Also included in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7210948\/2026\/04\/20\/liv-golf-whats-next-funding-saudi-arabia-pif\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Athletic\u2019s report is a conversation between Rahm and DeChambeau<\/a> on the practice green prior to the first round, a talk that left nearly a dozen other players distracted. The topic of said discussion is unknown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"chakra-image css-1ma461w\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Getty_Images_2271687050_5c71ac9739.jpg\" alt=\"GettyImages-2271687050.jpg\" style=\"border-radius:16px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\">While Rahm won, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skratch.golf\/news\/news\/Bryson-dechambeau-liv-golf-mexico-city-withdraw-wd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DeChambeau eventually withdrew from the tournament Sunday<\/a>, citing wrist discomfort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\">LIV has one event remaining before the PGA Championship\u2014LIV Golf Virginia from May 7-10\u2014and eight total for the rest of its season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1slq7gi\">It\u2019s safe to say the breakaway circuit has a lot to figure out before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm may have won in Mexico City, but LIV Golf\u2019s week south of the border was clouded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-619945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619945","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=619945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}