{"id":853178,"date":"2026-08-10T17:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853178\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:06:12","slug":"bryson-dechambeau-says-new-liv-golf-investor-has-new-and-fresh-vision-for-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853178\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau says new LIV Golf investor has \u2018new and fresh vision\u2019 for circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

LIV golfer Bryson DeChambeau on Sunday said the new unnamed lead investor in LIV<\/a> \u201chas a new and fresh vision\u201d for the circuit and while it \u201cwon\u2019t be changing too much … it\u2019ll be changing in the right ways,\u201d according to Alan Bastable of GOLF. DeChambeau said, \u201cIf we\u2019re able to get the players all aligned, which I feel like it\u2019ll happen in some capacity, I think it\u2019ll happen.\u201d LIV Golf CEO Scott O\u2019Neil walked the final few holes Sunday at Trump Bedminster with \u201ca special guest at his side\u201d — BC Partners Credit co-founder & Partner Ted Goldthorpe. Goldthorpe\u2019s team \u201creportedly has been kicking the tires<\/a>\u201d on LIV Golf. LIV has not officially acknowledged BC Partners as its would-be\u202ffunder, or lender. Adding \u201cintrigue\u201d to the dealmaking is the fact that BC Partners is a lender to GSE Worldwide, the agency that represents DeChambeau and fellow LIV golfer Joaquin Niemann. GSE said in a statement that \u201cit had no involvement with BC Partners\u2019 \u2018potential financing transaction involving LIV Golf,\u2019\u201d nor that it \u201cwas it aware of any discussions happening between the two parties.\u201d As Goldthorpe paced the property with O\u2019Neil, he also \u201cgot a taste for the LIV tournament experience: pulsating music; corporate hospitality that is more\u202fnight\u202fclub than country club;\u201d and, on this Sunday, an appearance by President Trump<\/a>. Goldthorpe described his day as \u201cgreat\u201d but otherwise declined an interview request (GOLF, 8\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n

QUESTIONS ARISE: GOLF\u2019s Dethier, Colgan & Schrock discussed LIV\u2019s future in a roundtable, and Dethier wrote, \u201cI do feel slightly more confident that the league will continue to exist.\u201d Dethier: \u201cI am not sure that makes me bullish on its future. \u2026 Its future remains shrouded in mystery.\u201d Colgan added \u201cwe need to know who the investors are, how much money they\u2019re giving, and when we\u2019ll know for certain this agreement was signed.\u201d Colgan added \u201cwe need more details\u201d before we can say this latest investor plan is \u201cobjectively good news.\u201d Schrock noted, \u201cWhat kind of investment did they get? Is it a loan? How will they pay players who still have money remaining on their current contract? Will the PIF agree to pay those out to avoid any legal disputes? What does it cost to retain Bryson? Why is this happening?\u201d Schrock: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of questions that went unanswered as Scott O\u2019Neil and LIV celebrated \u2026 something\u201d\u202f(GOLF.com, 8\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n

AWKWARD APPEARANCE: In a separate piece, Colgan wrote PIF Gov. Yasir Al-Rumayyan\u2019s \u201chead-spinning return\u201d to LIV Golf on Sunday \u201cquickly earned a place in the annals of \u2018awkward post-breakup behavior\u2019 history.\u201d DeChambeau said Sunday, \u201cI think he needed to have some conversations with the president. That was a whole \u2018nother thing. I\u2019m not going to get involved with that.\u201d Al-Rumayyan\u2019s appearance \u201cmight not have been all that unusual were it not for the venue: At a golf tournament for the league Al-Rumayyan\u2019s Saudi PIF is in the late stages of dropping altogether<\/a>.\u201d Once a fixture at events, Al-Rumayyan has \u201call but stopped attending LIV gatherings\u201d after his employer\u2019s decision to stop funding LIV. That is, except for Sunday at Bedminster. DeChambeau\u2019s answer underlined \u201ca theme that has been growing harder to ignore as the Saudi PIF prepares to pull the ripcord out of LIV.\u201d That theme: \u201cAl-Rumayyan and his Saudi brethren have enacted an enormous amount of change upon golf as we know it over these last five years.\u201d And yet in that time, \u201cthey\u2019ve said almost nothing\u201d (GOLF, 8\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n

VICTORY OVERSHADOWED: The N.Y. POST\u2019s Mark Cannizzaro wrote all of the golf accomplishments over the weekend were \u201clost in the LIV circus that included Trump and his phalanx of Secret Service stationed in every nook and cranny of the vast property.\u201d Trump, Al-Rumayyan and World Golf HOFer Gary Player congregated Sunday morning \u201cin one of the large country club ballrooms, where there were a number of LIV players present.\u201d Cannizzaro: \u201cWelcome to the tumultuous world of LIV Golf, where the actual golf is mere background music … all of the off-course drama.\u201d Of course, there is a \u201cgood share of golf fanatics who come to the tournament to get up-close looks at some of the game\u2019s stars,\u201d like Rahm and DeChambeau, with \u201cample viewing along the ropes with modest crowds.\u201d But the \u201csobering LIV Golf reality is this: The golf is just a backdrop to the rest of the activity taking place — particularly with the tour\u2019s murky future hanging in the balance\u201d (N.Y. POST, 8\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV golfer Bryson DeChambeau on Sunday said the new unnamed lead investor in LIV \u201chas a new and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,1639,81630,622,139,82],"class_list":["post-853178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-deals","tag-fan-experience","tag-golf","tag-leadership","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}