Drama seems to be following Michael La Sasso wherever he goes this summer.
A few weeks after his career breakthrough win at the LIV season finale in Indianapolis where he bested Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau, the 22-year-old shot a final round 5-under 67 on Friday at Golf-und Country Club Seddiner See in Michendorf, Germany.
It was good enough to get the 2025 NCAA individual champion on the number to qualify at DP World Tour first-stage Qualifying School.
All of it was in jeopardy after a costly bogey on the par-3 11th hole.
La Sasso followed that up with a par on No. 12 and then birdied four of his six last holes to get to T-18 on the tournament.

#indianapolis #Friday

LIV Golf officially filed for bankruptcy this week, hoping to rebuild a self-sustaining world golf tour from the ashes of Saudi Arabia's most infamous sportswashing attempt.
Ever since the Saudis pulled their billions of dollars in funding, the tour has faced an existential crisis. As its 2026 season concluded, it canceled its team championship event and ended the campaign early. LIV then laid off most of its workforce before ultimately filing for bankruptcy.
While LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil has hyped a potential new investor that could save the tour, the reality paints a far different picture.
According to the bankruptcy filing, LIV has until Oct. 13 to meet several criteria for BC Partners to make their investment official. At least half the players with outstanding claims against LIV, including top stars like Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau, must sign on to the new agreement in order to make it valid.
Incredibly, LIV doesn't just owe money to players it forked over millions of dollars to in order to join its rebel tour. It also owes money to other people and entities, including YouTube content creator Rick Shiels. LIV still owes him $1.4 million as an ambassador, in one of the clearest signs of the wasteful spending that doomed the league.

#golf #including

This week's Irish Open marks the start of a strong slate of DP World Tour events that will see a large contingent of international LIV Golf players mix with some of their notable PGA Tour peers as the former await clarity on their league's future.
Jon Rahm will tee it up in Ireland alongside fellow LIV members Tyrrell Hatton, Joaquin Niemann, Sergio Garcia, Adrian Meronk, David Puig, Tom McKibbin, and Thomas Detry. PGA Tour players in the field include defending Irish Open champion Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka, Shane Lowry, Alex Fitzpatrick, and Patrick Reed, who has recently completed his one-year suspension from the PGA Tour for joining LIV in 2022.
Many of those LIV and PGA Tour players will also compete at next week's BMW PGA Championship, which is part of the DP World Tour's elevated Rolex Series and has a $9 million purse. The Irish Open, which begins Thursday, has a $6 million purse but still offers a key opportunity for LIV players to earn Official World Golf Ranking points as they remain banned from the PGA Tour amid LIV's uncertain future heading into 2027. The league laid off most of its staff last week and is still working on finalizing a new funding deal with BC Partners Credit, following the Saudi PIF's exit.
Rahm told BBC Sports on Tuesday that "time will tell" what happens regarding his playing future as he is "more than willing to fulfill" his LIV contract that has multiple years remaining reportedly still worth more than $100 million. PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp said last month that there are "no current plans" for another Returning Member Program like the one that brought Koepka back to the Tour in January—and was also available to Rahm and fellow LIV stars Bryson Dechambeau and Cam Smith.
While the DP World Tour will continue to provide vital playing opportunities for LIV players this fall, things could change next year. Nine LIV players, including Rahm, were granted conditional releases for the 2026 season that allowed them to retain the DP World Tour membership despite competing in some conflicting LIV events. But it is "highly unlikely" that those same conditional releases will be available in 2027, sources have previously told Front Office Sports.

#rahm #irish #future #golf

Mikayla Demaiter and Bryson DeChambeau were seen on the golf course together in their first public appearance.
On Tuesday, August 25, an X user shared footage of the couple from the LIV Golf Indianapolis tournament at The Club at Chatham Hills over the weekend. In the video, the pair is seen walking off the golf course as the model, 26, held onto the 32-year-old professional golfer's arm.
Another clip showed them signing autographs before getting into a golf cart and driving off with the two-time U.S. Open champion's arm on the social media star's leg. Demaiter wore a sporty outfit, consisting of a tennis skirt, white tank top, sneakers and a sweater draped over her shoulders, while the athlete wore khakis and a blue polo.
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The pair reportedly had a PDA moment at the golf event, as The Athletic reported that DeChambeau "kissed his girlfriend before leaving" on Sunday.

#course #pair #mikayla

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It's time for season five of LIV Golf, and the breakaway tour will look quite a bit different in 2026.
The most striking change is tournaments will now be 72 holes instead of the 54 that served as the tour's Roman-numeral namesake, putting LIV back on level ground with traditional tours.
LIV also has seen its first major defections, with Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed departing prior to the 2026 season to begin the process of rejoining the PGA Tour. Plenty of top attractions remain, though, led by the likes of Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson and Sergio Garcia.
Here's everything you need to know to watch them as the rest of the LIV crew during the 2026 season.

#tour #watch #preferred #source

WESTFIELD -- Laurie Canter of the Majesticks Golf Club sits atop the leaderboard after Day 1 of LIV Golf Indianapolis at Chatham Hills.
Canter shot an 8-under par 62, sinking nine birdies and hitting the fairway 13 out of 14 times. Canter helped the Majesticks shoot a combined 17-under-par, giving the team a two-shot lead over Ripper GC and Legion XIII.
Cameron Smith (Ripper GC) and Richard T. Lee (Wild Card) are tied for second place at 7-under par.
The play on the course was just one of the hot topics surrounding LIV's final event of the season. With the tour facing financial uncertainty, buy-in from the top names of the tour could impact its future. One of the tour's biggest and most polarizing names, Bryson DeChambeau, had a strong Day 1 finishing 5-under par. Despite his strong round, DeChambeau said it's difficult quieting the outside noise and focusing on the round at hand.
"It's tough. It's not easy," DeChambeau said during a TV interview after his round. "We definitely have a lot against us. But I think behind the scenes we've got a lot of people that are working hard to make this possible for not only all the players that are out here but all the fans that have come out to these events and the economic impact that we've made in all these places, whether it's South Africa, here in Indy or Australia, numerous places across the world, the UK, all the different places we've been in the U.S. Even Nashville when we played a few years ago was unbelievable.

#dechambeau #we 've #tour

It is no secret that one of the biggest factors behind players leaving the PGA Tour for LIV Golf was the money.
Not only did stars such as Bryson DeChambeau receive huge sign-on fees, but the prize money was also incredible.
With LIV Golf potentially coming to an end soon, here is how much prize money DeChambeau has earned on the tour.
We have also compared DeChambeau's earnings to those of Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler on the PGA Tour in the same time frame.
Photo by Andrew Mordzynski/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

#bryson

Bryson DeChambeau appears to have had issues with the golf media all year, and this week it reached its boiling point.
Since missing the cut at The Masters, DeChambeau did not speak to the media at major championships all year. At The Open Championship, he hosted his own interview with a reporter, which he sent out to the media, and he declined to comment on his rules controversy after he was docked two strokes.
This frostiness continued at LIV Indianapolis. DeChambeau called a few members of the media the "mafia" when he arrived at the driving range. He's likely unhappy with the media coverage of LIV Golf over the last few months.
After that comment, DeChambeau was evidently unhappy with his golf swing and then had a media member who was filming him practice thrown out of the driving range. It wasn't the 32-year-old American's finest hour, but he might have made up for it after.
Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images

#golf #since

LeBron James could quickly become one of the most popular figures in the world of "YouTube golf" after the NBA star entered the fast-growing social media ***** e over the weekend.
James only started playing golf last year but has already become obsessed with the game—so much so that he's launched a YouTube channel focused entirely on golf content. His first video, ***** led "The 2016 Cavs 10-Year Reunion Golf Scramble," has amassed more than 2 million views since being published Saturday. In the video, James takes part in a 3 vs. 3 match in Scotland with his former NBA Finals-winning Cleveland teammates Kevin Love, J.R. Smith, Richard Jefferson, Tristan Thompson, and Channing Frye.
His YouTube channel—the handle is simply LeBron—had already surpassed 530,000 subscribers as of Tuesday afternoon. The account actually joined YouTube in 2010 and had about 121,000 subscribers as of last week but was dormant until Saturday with no recent videos, according to figures from social media data tracker Social Blade.
YouTube golf channels typically feature content creators playing matches in various competitive formats with contestants mic'd up. The heavily produced final product often includes broadcast elements seen in live professional golf, like shot tracers. The most popular channels each have millions of subscribers. Rick Shiels leads the way with 3 million-plus, followed closely by Bryson DeChambeau's 2.8 million.
James has a strong social media footprint. He boasts 154 million subscribers on Instagram and another 54 million on X/Twitter. He has regularly posted casual videos from the golf course on those apps in recent months, as well as commentary about professional golf tournaments.

#james #Media #year

LIV golf has had an interesting existence. The rogue golf league burst onto the scene five years ago, luring star golfers away from the PGA Tour with huge sums of guaranteed money. LIV remained defiant throughout its existence, but earlier this year it seemed the ride might be coming to an end when Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund announced it was walking away.
At the time, LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil insisted the organization was funded through 2026. He even sent an e-mail to staff saying the season would go on "exactly as planned, uninterrupted and at full throttle."
MORE: Bryson DeChambeau makes $500 million demand as LIV Golf scrambles for viewers
Two weeks later LIV "postponed" an event scheduled for the end of June in Louisiana. This only raised more questions about whether the league really was actually funded. Luckily, in early August O'Neil announced that LIV had found new funding. Via ESPN:
"LIV Golf has an agreement in place with a lead investor, signed by the investor and approved by the board, to anchor the transaction and play a key role in supporting the path forward for the league's next era, driven by and for the players," O'Neil said in a statement. "We're also seeing strong interest from more than a dozen additional parties to potentially serve as minority investors, creating a multi-partner model built for long-term stability and growth."

#golf #funded #tour

Just days before Bryson DeChambeau competes in his final LIV Golf event of the year, he announced on Monday that he will play at the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa later this year.
DeChambeau posted a video on his social media channels alongside South Africa's greatest golfer, 90-year-old Gary Player, who serves as the tournament host.
"I am absolutely delighted that Bryson will compete in this year's Nedbank Golf Challenge," said Player. "The South African crowds loved watching him play earlier this year, and it is wonderful to welcome him back to our incredible country."
The Nedbank Golf Challenge will be held from Dec. 3-6 at Gary Player Country Club in the Northwest province of Sun City. Kristoffer Reitan is the defending champion. The tournament is co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour and Sunshine Tour.
"Bryson's passion, power and commitment to the game continue to inspire fans around the world," Player continued. "Bryson is a true global champion of golf. I know he will receive a very special welcome at Sun City, and I look forward to seeing how the new and improved Gary Player Country Club challenges his game."

#bryson #nedbank

In his memoir of life in the tech industry, "Chaos Monkeys," Antonio Garcia Martinez wrote that it's not the rats who first abandon a sinking ship but rather the crew members who know how to swim.
By that measure, Brooks Koepka made like Michael Phelps, presciently jumping overboard early from LIV Golf and stroking his way to safe harbor. Now that the Good Ship Yasir seems doomed for the sea floor — the bullshit that long acted as ballast having shifted to expose the dead weight of washed-up hangers-on — those who remained are left eyeing leaky life rafts.
Just two members of LIV's roster matter, no matter how much its CEO, Scott O'Neil, blathered about the importance of Dean Burmester on the South African stop. They are Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm. The former because every carnival needs a barker, the latter because leagues need credible competitors. While DeChambeau remains welded to LIV, Rahm's tone has been lukewarm and several sources in his orbit are convinced he'll exit soon. He has alternatives, but they're not painless and require accepting conditions that the prideful Spaniard might balk at.
Rahm's obvious first choice for life after LIV would be returning to compete on the PGA Tour. He lives in the U.S., and it's the most lucrative, competitively demanding and commercially relevant circuit. But no one around the Tour thinks Rahm will be offered the terms Koepka accepted, and many believe he'd be asked to pay stiffer financial penalties, accept restricted playing privileges and perhaps even apologize (for what, and to whom, is unclear). How would that sit with a man who went to war with the DP World Tour in Europe over comparatively modest fines?
Koepka chose to leave LIV with time remaining on his contract. Rahm would be leaving by necessity, knowing he won't see all of the cash promised and that the league, if it survives, would do so only because someone wanted to leverage its losses to dodge taxes elsewhere in their investment portfolio. His former peers haven't forgotten that he went to LIV months after the Framework Agreement was announced, willingly becoming leverage for the Saudis, and that he later said (with amusing self-regard) that he felt his leaving would be the catalyst to uniting the game. Rahm thought he could take the bag and return as a hero. No one did more to ensure there'd be no deal between the Tour and the Saudis (with the possible exception of Patrick Cantlay in the boardroom). He chose his side and the guys he left behind were determined to make him live with the decision. Plenty remain so, and are disinclined to roll out the welcome mat too quickly.

#first

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It's time to watch the next generation of golf professionals get their start — the 2026 U.S. Amateur Championship returns to Philadelphia this week.
As one of the the oldest championships in the country, the U.S. Amateur is steeped in history and greatness. It now serves as a launching pad for amateur golfers, with a winners list including names like Bryson DeChambeau, Viktor Hovland and Matt Fitzpatrick.
Taking place at both Philadelphia Country Club and Merion Golf Club, 312 players will compete across seven days and two formats.
Currently, 47 of the top 50 in the World Amateur Golf rankings have entered the draw, including reigning champion Mason Howell, No. 1 Preston Shout, No. 3 Tyler Watts and more.

#sporting #championship #watch

Bryson DeChambeau has experienced a whirlwind 2026 season.
DeChambeau has won twice on LIV Golf, but has flattered to deceive in the majors, with three missed cuts and a T-14 finish to his name.
The 32-year-old will be out of contract with LIV Golf at the end of the current season, so it remains to be seen where he will be playing next year.
Bryson DeChambeau joined LIV Golf way back in June 2022, and he has since established himself as one of the biggest stars in the game.
The big concern for LIV is that his future is completely up in the air right now.

#golf #experienced

Bryson DeChambeau has endured a miserable time on the course at LIV Golf New York this week.
DeChambeau entered the week knowing that he had to finish ahead of Jon Rahm in order to keep the season-long race alive right up to the final event.
However, his hopes of doing that have already been dashed it seems, after rounds of 76 and 74 left him eight-over par at the midway point of LIV Golf New York.
Bryson DeChambeau has won twice on LIV Golf this season, but he definitely hasn't been at his best throughout the entirety of the year.
Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images

#golf #rahm #however

Two weeks before LIV Golf descends on The Club at Chatham Hills in Westfield for the individual championship finale, the league announced Wednesday it has secured funding with a lead investor, "which will play a key role in supporting the path forward for the league's next era, driven by and for the players."
In its statement, LIV confirmed the remainder of the 2026 season will play out, which includes a tournament at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey that started Thursday, the Westfield event Aug. 20-23 and LIV's final tournament in Michigan at The Cardinal at St. John's Aug. 27-30, which is the league's Team Championship finale.
LIV Golf, a breakaway tour and a competitor to the PGA Tour, features players such as Bryson DeChambeau, John Rahm, Dustin Johnson, Cameron Smith and Phil Mickelson.
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LIV also has plans to be the first major global sports league to make players the majority equity holders, which it says "gives the league the foundation to keep growing the game worldwide."

#league #finale

LIV Golf has announced it has reached an agreement with a new "lead investor," with Saudi Arabia ending its financial backing of the breakaway circuit at the end of the 2026 season.
The news comes after Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced on April 30 that it would withdraw funding, which brought the future of the tour into doubt.
PIF has put more than $5 billion into LIV Golf.
LIV issued an update ahead of this week's tournament at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, which begins on Thursday and will see the likes of Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton battling it out.
A statement released on X read: "LIV Golf has an agreement in place with a lead investor, signed by the investor and approved by the board, to anchor the transaction and play a key role in supporting the path forward for the league's next era, driven by and for the players.

#golf

LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil announced an agreement Wednesday with a lead investor that would allow the rival league to forge ahead without the backing of Saudi funding while making players major equity holders.
O'Neil did not identify the investor, only that it has signed an agreement that was approved by LIV's board and signals "the path forward for the League's next era, driven by and for the players."
O'Neil said LIV is getting "strong interest" from more than a dozen other parties who would be minority investors as the league tries to survive. They spoke on the eve of LIV Golf New York at Trump Bedminster, the penultimate individual tournament.
LIV is to play in Indianapolis on Aug. 20-23. The season-ending team championship in Michigan has been in doubt for several weeks, mainly because the course has not even begun setting up for a tournament scheduled to start in three weeks.
LIV Golf, which launched in 2022 with the financial backing of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, paid nine-figure bonuses to lure top players like Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm away from the PGA Tour, offering $20 million prize funds.

#golf #investor #league

SOUTHPORT, ENGLAND - JULY 17: Bryson DeChambeau of the United States is driven by a rules offical on a buggy following day two of the The 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale on July 17, 2026 in Southport, England. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images) Getty
UTTOXETER, ENGLAND - JULY 23: Scott O'Neil, LIV Golf CEO reacts during day one of LIV Golf United Kingdom Presented by JCB at JCB Golf & Country Club on July 23, 2026 in Uttoxeter, England. (Photo by Jan Kruger/Getty Images) Getty
With the LIV Golf Tour hanging on by a thread, Bryson DeChambeau hosted a players only meeting to discuss the future of the league. The meeting took place subsequently after LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil and other executives met with the captains of the LIV Golf teams. While few players commented on the happenings, there are some indicators.
Richard Bland said, "Bryson just ran through what he knows, and obviously, we're trying to do it as a group, but we're individuals as well, so I think the next two to three weeks is going to be where it's at. We're in this together; we're fully backing Scott. I think probably in the next two to three weeks we'll have a bigger picture. We're just in that kind of stage at the minute that we're positive with what's going on, but we just need everything to be fully signed off so you can go forward."
LIV Golf has yet to confirm if their Team Championship will occur as scheduled at The Cardinal in Plymouth, Michigan on August 27th-30th. The preparations for the event still need completion, which is unusual. It seems unlikely they will be finished.

#england #getty #scott #southport

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — LIV Golf players emerged from more than 90 minutes of meetings Tuesday afternoon at Trump National Bedminster Golf Club with little new information about the status of the league's team championship later this month or potential new investors.
"No updates," Thomas Detry, a member of Dustin Johnson's 4Aces team, told Front Office Sports after the meetings ahead of this week's LIV Golf New York event. "Just positive information."
Captains of LIV's 13 four-man teams met with LIV CEO Scott O'Neil inside the Trump Bedminster clubhouse for roughly 40 minutes, before that contingent joined the rest of the league's players and team GMs for a separate meeting in a different building for about 20 minutes. O'Neil and team GM's exited at that point, and Bryson DeChambeau led a players-only meeting for more than 30 minutes.
"Bryson just ran through what he knows," Richard Bland, a member of the Cleeks GC team, told FOS and other reporters at Bedminster. "We're trying to do it as a group, but obviously we're individuals as well. So, I think the next kind of two-three weeks is going to be where it's at."
Byeong Hun An, captain of Korean Golf Club, said the players-only portion of the meeting "went well. It was fun, and no one's throwing fists or anything, which was good. Bryson was talking, and it was pretty good. The vibe was good."

#Trump

Detroit — Seven down, one more to go.
This week marks the eighth and final playing of the PGA Tour's Rocket Classic at Detroit Golf Club.
So, who will join the roster of champions that includes Nate Lashley, Bryson DeChambeau, Cam Davis (twice), Tony Finau, Rickie Fowler and Aldrich Potgieter? We'll know soon enough, before the sun sets on Palmer Park on Sunday.
In the meantime, The Detroit News' so-called experts (loose term) provide their predictions:
Predicting the winner of a 147-player PGA Tour tournament is a near-impossible task, unless Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlory or prime Tiger Woods is teeing it up. Usually, I like to lean in heavily on the horses-for-courses theory, so I considered the likes of Jake Knapp (tied for fourth course-record 61 last year), Chris Kirk (lost in a playoff last year) and Taylor Moore (the only player with three top-10s here), but the course has been renovated. So I'm going with The Kid, JACKSON KOIVUN, 21, fresh off his first PGA Tour win at the 3M Open. We'll pick him to go back-to-back at 3M and Rocket, like Tony Finau in 2022. If Koivun wins, he'd be the second player to receive a sponsor's exemption into the Rocket (2024), only to win the tournament two years later (Aldrich Potgieter, 2023 exemption and 2025 ****** le).

#detroit #tony

Bryson DeChambeau has been one of the leading voices in the anti-golf ball rollback movement.
Golf technology's rapid advancement has seen a jaw-dropping increase in distance from modern professional golfers. To counteract this, the sport is preparing a golf ball rollback to prevent players from hitting the ball quite as far.
Many current players and legends alike, such as Rory McIlroy, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, are in favor of this move, although there are questions being raised about how effective the new golf ball will be at reducing distance.
Meanwhile, DeChambeau has argued that fans want to see players hit the ball as far as humanly possible. He says being able to drive the ball over 350 yards is a feat of human accomplishment, and it's good for the game.
But what's happening on the PGA Tour this season proves that DeChambeau's take on this is complete nonsense.

#players #mcilroy

Bryson DeChambeau bounced back well from the controversy he caused at The Open Championship last week with a round of 64 on day one at LIV Golf UK.
DeChambeau was right in the mix to win The Open after he made a birdie on his final hole of the day on Friday to put him one shot adrift of the leader, Lucas Herbert.
However, within minutes of leaving the 18th green at Royal Birkdale, he was informed that he had broken rule 8.1a on the fifth hole.
Bryson DeChambeau was penalized two strokes by Open officials after he was deemed to have improved the playing area around his ball in the rough during his second round.
And what followed was utter chaos. DeChambeau headed back out onto the golf course with Open officials to fight his case.

#dechambeau #bryson #round

Bryson DeChambeau and Ian Poulter got into an altercation on the golf course during the first round of LIV UK.
Poulter was standing on the tee box ready to play when DeChambeau’s tee shot from another hole almost hit him. The ball landed by his feet, causing Poulter to jump out of the way and shout angrily in DeChambeau’s direction.
After his round, Poulter said that it wasn’t DeChambeau’s fault. The Englishman said that because of the way the golf course is laid out, you cannot see the tee box from where DeChambeau took his shot.
That combined with how long Poulter’s group took to play the hole meant it was simply bad fortune.
But DeChambeau’s old comments on why he doesn’t shout fore might change Poulter’s mind on that.

#dechambeau #poulter #course #round

Bryson DeChambeau has said he is “moving past” the controversial two-shot penalty that hampered his bid for The Open at Royal Birkdale.
DeChambeau was docked two shots after his second round in Southport having been deemed by officials to have improved the area of his backswing by standing on and flattening grass as he played a shot out of the rough on the fifth hole.
The 32-year-old has since been accused of attempting to involve Donald Trump in the rules dispute, and eventually faded from contention to finish in a tie for 14th at the year’s final men’s major.
DeChambeau had missed the cut in the first three majors of the year and was left to rue what might have been having originally been just one shot off the halfway lead of Lucas Herbert before the penalty.
But while still believing he was in the right, and should not have been penalised, an honest DeChambeau admitted that he was able to move on from the incident.

#year #birkdale

Disaster nearly struck for Ian Poulter on the 12th hole during day one of LIV Golf UK.
As Poulter addressed his ball in the fairway, another ball whistled past his ear.
Bryson DeChambeau unleashed his tee shot off the 12th tee completely unaware that Poulter was still in the fairway.
Ian Poulter posted an opening-round 68 on day one of LIV Golf UK, four shots higher than DeChambeau's exceptional 64.
However, the American is a further three shots adrift of the leader, Lucas Herbert.

#poulter #golf #disaster #however

Scottie Scheffler has broken his silence on Rory McIlroy’s rivalry with Bryson DeChambeau, and it’s fair to say he’s not a fan of it.
McIlroy spoke about DeChambeau’s rule controversy at The Open Championship, saying, “I’m not particularly fond of him”. DeChambeau protested a penalty ruled against him after the second round of The Open late into the evening, in a move McIlroy described as “performative”.
The rivalry between DeChambeau and McIlroy goes way back. DeChambeau is the face of LIV Golf, which McIlroy has had public battles with in the past, and after DeChambeau beat McIlroy at the 2024 US Open, there has always been tension between the pair.
But in response to McIlroy’s comments, Scheffler said he’s not a fan of “personal jabs”, taking the side of DeChambeau in this instance. The world number one added that he doesn’t think rivalries are a big thing in golf because players aren’t competing one on one. “My biggest rivalry week in and week out is the golf course,” said Scheffler.
But this is a take that Dan Rapaport vehemently disagrees with.

#mcilroy #dechambeau #open #scottie

Bryson DeChambeau is trying to avoid making a bit of unfortunate history this week at the Open Championship.
The two-time U.S. Open champion has struggled in major championships in 2026, missing the cut at the Masters, PGA Championship and U.S. Open. He's one of only three players who have played in all three majors to not make the weekend in any of them.
And at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England, he is trying to avoid becoming the first multiple-time major champion to miss the cut in all four majors since 1998.
World Golf Hall of Fame and three-time Open champ Nick Faldo dubbed it "The Rough Slam."
"We've got to name it, right?" he said in an interview with Sky Sports on Tuesday.

The year’s final major is upon us. The Open Championship (or British Open, depending on which side of the pond you favor) tees off on Thursday at Royal Birkdale. Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, local hero Tommy Fleetwood and the rest of the field will begin play starting at 1:35 a.m. Eastern Time. The final group will tee off at 11:21 a.m. Get the coffee ready and follow along.
Notable tee times (all times Eastern):
2:19 a.m.: Robert MacIntyre, Rickie Fowler, Alex Fitzpatrick
4:36 a.m.: Russell Henley, Justin Rose, Viktor Hovland
4:47 a.m.: Justin Thomas, Alex Noren, Jason Day

It's a short list and not necessarily one you'd want to be on, but there are three golfers who played all three majors so far in 2026 and missed the cut in all three.
Now, credit where credit is due as each of them did qualify for those majors and that's not easy to do, but missing the cut in all three is rough.
While there are 22 golfers who made the cut in the each of the first three majors of 2026, these are the three on the other side of the spectrum.
Bryson DeChambeau
Harry Hall