Bryson DeChambeau is blowing it — once more.
While Rory McIlroy celebrates life as a back-to-back Masters champion, DeChambeau cannot even make the lower at Augusta and will quickly return to the virtually invisible LIV tour.
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Time for DeChambeau to depart LIV
Does DeChambeau care extra about having 4.5 million Instagram followers than successful the most prestigious golf tournament in the world?
Is he extra involved about reaching 3 million YouTube subscribers and 3D-printing his personal golf golf equipment than actually being probably the greatest golfers on the planet?
Once once more, they’re legit questions for a singular expertise who’s seen his public perception yo-yo for years.
DeChambeau – a two-time main champion already – has bounced between loathed, favored, tremendous cool and hated ever since he started slamming energy drives.
At his greatest, he’s a great disruptor powering golf into a brand new age.
“Bryson has been a real gift for golf in general,” Chad Mumm, government producer of Netflix’s Full Swing, completely informed talkSPORT earlier than the 2025 Masters.
“The bad rap that golf gets is it doesn’t create a lot of amazing characters all the time. Every sort of generation, you get a few really interesting personalities.
“He’s at all times executed issues his personal method. And I believe when he first got here out, when he was somewhat youthful, that had the potential to rub individuals the mistaken method.”
After McIlroy made historical past and held off Scottie Scheffler by one career-defining stroke on Sunday, DeChambeau wasn’t even in the Masters conversation.
McIlroy beats DeChambeau on and off the course
“Well LIV gamers at the moment are simply Hollywood pretend. Courses they play should not even shut to PGA stage,” tweeted one fan, after DeChambeau triple-bogeyed the 18th hole on Friday and failed to make the weekend cut.
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“Can he 3D print himself a brand new mind so he can really be good at golf?” a second fan posted.
“Go again to the shorts tour!” a third fan said.
“That’s what taking part in on the bush league LIV golf tour does to one’s competitiveness,” a fourth fan wrote.
The 32-year-old DeChambeau has 9 PGA Tour wins, $36.9 million in PGA earnings and edged McIlroy to win an instant-classic 2024 US Open.
But while McIlroy has become a global name and elevated the sport in a post-Tiger Woods era, DeChambeau has allowed himself to get lost in the woods of video views, social media influencing and big-money tournaments that are largely ignored.
DeChambeau wants one other picture reset
His LIV contract is ready to expire after the 2026 season and he might reportedly receive a new $500m payday to stay with the struggling tour.
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Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed have already quit the Saudi-backed circuit, while Jon Rahm stays and remains in ongoing dispute with the DP World Tour that risks his Ryder Cup reputation.
But DeChambeau already has an estimated net worth in the $50m range, so how much money does the Crushers leader really need?
McIlroy once was burdened, major after major and year after year, with the shadow of never being able to conquer the biggest tournaments in the world.
When he gave the 2024 US Open to DeChambeau, he avoided the media aftermath, and it appeared that McIlroy couldn’t handle the internal and external pressures that never relented.
Decision time for ‘Mad Scientist’
That view is laughable now, and McIlroy has advanced into the strongest golfer on the planet.
Two years later, DeChambeau is battling with the media and capturing six-over earlier than he’s knocked out of Augusta.
LIV is holding again DeChambeau, on and off the course.
If he re-ups with a second-rate tour for another cash grab, the ‘Mad Scientist’ will show the golf world that he cares more about likes, views and subscribers than winning McIlroy’s gorgeous green jacket.
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