LIV Golf: Bryson DeChambeau hopeful league 'can exist forever' and says his Masters loss to Rory McIlroy helped him grow
Bryson DeChambeau is optimistic about LIV Golf's future, and revealed the league's proposed new iteration, LIV 2.0, is not intended to be a competitor to the PGA Tour; DeChambeau also believes his loss to Rory McIlroy at the 2025 Masters has helped him grow as a person
Monday 2 November 2026 14:49, UK
Bryson DeChambeau is hopeful LIV Golf can 'exist forever' as he looks ahead to the breakaway league's intentions to relaunch as LIV 2.0.
While the likes of Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton and Sergio Garcia are among those to have indicated they will not be participating in the league's new iteration, DeChambeau, who has been tight-lipped on the matter, spoke of his optimism about the future of the league.
LIV has undergone a restructuring since the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced it was ending its financing of the circuit at the end of the 2026 season.
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The league later announced its intentions to relaunch in 2027 after it secured a package of £223.57m ($300m) from its new lead investors, BC Partners, and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Reflecting on his time with the tour, DeChambeau spoke in a wide-ranging interview on the Figuring Out with Raj Shamani podcast about the league's recent financial issues.
"The team golf stuff I was very excited about," DeChambeau said to Shamani. "I really cared and I still do care about the team golf stuff.
"The top co. [company] wasn't really managing that effectively. I know that now. I didn't know that during the time.
"Our teams were doing very well. Our teams generated almost $29m (£21.61m) last year in revenue.
"We had £15.65m ($21m) in costs from payment of players and expenses and travel and everything. So, we made £5.96m ($8m) EBIDTA (Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) last year.
"The teams were doing well. But all of the player payments and everything got pushed down to the teams when they went bankrupt, because the top co. [company] wasn't being run effectively.
"No fault to each other, but we thought there was a lot more capital that was going to be at play from the guys that were funding it."
Uncertainty still remains over what LIV 2.0 could look like; however, DeChambeau stressed the new circuit would not be a 'competitor' to the PGA Tour.
"The business model makes a lot of sense," he said. "We're actually working through that right now for this new model.
"It will make full financial sense. No funny business, no nothing.
"It's going to be done right, and this is going to be a league that exists hopefully forever."
He added: "It's not combative; we're not trying to compete against the [PGA] Tour, we want to be creative.
"We want to bring value to anywhere and everywhere in the golf market across the world."
DeChambeau: McIlroy Masters loss made me a better person
During the podcast, DeChambeau also spoke about how being humbled on the golf course has helped him grow as a person.
He and Rory McIlroy duked it out in the final round of the 2025 Masters. DeChambeau ultimately fell away while the Northern Irishman ended his long wait to win his first Green Jacket.
Prior to that, DeChambeau outlasted McIlroy by a shot at Pinehurst No 2 in 2024, to win his second US Open title.
"If there's one thing that people don't realise about me - I think this is something that's a good little point, too - it's not that I like being humbled, I like having the perspective, right?" DeChambeau said.
"It sucks getting humbled. Right? Everybody doesn't like it, but it needs to happen. In order for me to improve in life, I need to be humbled.
"There's no question. And you know, whether it's me losing the Masters to Rory [McIlroy] or him losing to me at the US Open when I won, it's so good for us.
"I think that's why golf is so great because it does humble us, no matter what. You can think you're the best in the world, and the next day you can't go ahead and hit a golf shot. I think that's what's so beautiful about it.
"That difficult moment is what honestly has helped shape me into a better person today. So, if I didn't have that, I wouldn't be the person I am today."
