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Rumours about Bryson DeChambeau’s future continue to swirl. Last week, reports surfaced that LIV Golf has only 35 days to re-sign star players in order to secure version 2.0 funding. A short while later, PGA Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp again shot down an extension of the Returning Players Program that welcomed Brooks Koepka back into the fold earlier this year. At some point very soon, DeChambeau – one of biggest global names in golf – is going to have to stick or twist, but for now he’s just trolling.
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Last weekend, DeChambeau teased he was “Coming home” in a cryptic story on Instagram, and the internet quickly did what the internet does (lose its mind).
As anyone with a shred of media literacy realised, however, “home” didn’t mean the PGA Tour, it meant, quite literally, home. Many believed DeChambeau was teasing the return of his viral 2024 hole-in-one challenge, when he attempted to make a hole-in-one over his house each day for more than two weeks until he finally, triumphantly, prevailed. Instead, the current (former?) Crushers GC captain announced something entirely new:
Bryson’s Backyard Games.
The setup is simple. Over the next 10 days, 10 golfers – a mix of randoms and YouTube stars such as Grant Horvat, Brad Dalke, Chazzy and the Bryan Bros. – will play one-hole elimination matches from a variety of whacky routings in DeChambeau’s backyard. Eventually those 10 golfers will be whittled down to one, who will then face DeChambeau in a three-hole shootout to determine who takes home the $US100,000 pot. If DeChambeau wins, that pot will go to one of his lucky Instagram followers.
Needless to say, news of DeChambeau’s competitive future looks like it will have to wait. For the rest of us, however, these backyard shenanigans should provide plenty of entertainment until he’s ready to announce his next chapter.
