Bryson DeChambeau has made headlines for all the wrong reasons at The Open Championship this week.
DeChambeau still has a chance of winning The Open on Sunday, but he would have been a lot closer to the leaders had it not been for the two-stroke penalty that he was handed on Friday.
The man from Dallas, Texas, posted a second-round 66 on Friday but that quickly became a 68 after he was docked two strokes for clearing the path to the back of his ball in the rough on the fifth hole.
DeChambeau’s two-stroke penalty was huge news and he really didn’t take it well at all.
The two-time US Open champion even threatened to withdraw from the championship as a result of the penalty that he received.
He did return on Saturday and posted a 69, but he clearly feels like he was on the wrong end of a serious injustice.
Because of that, his future may well lie away from competitive golf altogether.
Bryson DeChambeau is now less likely to return to the PGA Tour after Open controversy
DeChambeau’s future is incredibly uncertain right now.
It is far from guaranteed that LIV Golf will even be around next year, with Saudi Arabia’s PIF set to withdraw their funding from the league at the end of the current season.
There have been rumors that DeChambeau could actually leave LIV and return to the PGA Tour, just like Brooks Koepka did back in January.
However, a move back to the PGA Tour is looking even less likely for the 32-year-old now.
DeChambeau felt very harshly treated when he was hit with a two-stroke penalty on Friday at The Open.
He genuinely doesn’t believe that he did anything wrong and feels as though he was scapegoated by the R&A.
DeChambeau even had his request for his scorecard from his second round rejected by the R&A.
DeChambeau’s future could well be exclusively on YouTube
Perhaps his problems this week at Birkdale will drive him towards focusing purely on his YouTube content creation.
He is exempt at the US Open until 2034 and all of the other majors until 2029.
So he could easily walk away from LIV Golf and play in all four of the majors for another three years at least.
Bryson DeChambeau is the type of character who would be more comfortable playing up to the camera on YouTube.
Perhaps that is actually the American’s true calling.
And it will be incredibly interesting to see what DeChambeau decides to do at the end of this season when his contract with LIV Golf expires.
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