Bryson Dechambeau’s $21M LIV Golf Money Triumphs as His ‘Dominant Force’ Testimonial; Fueling The PGA Tour Cash Debates

What makes Bryson DeChambeau so sure about LIV Golf’s future dominance? The eight-time PGA Tour winner was confident that the nascent league would grow in popularity and its team-play format would eventually find an established place in the golf world. Although the former PGAT pro, credited the “sentiment” and “movement” inside the golf world for this assumption, his heavier pockets also testify to LIV Golf’s financial muscle.

Bryson DeChambeau decided to join LIV Golf after playing six seasons and 144 events in the PGA Tour. The Scientist bagged three titles in the 2017-2018 season, a year after turning pro. But the next three seasons yielded as many. His career earnings stood at $27,479,287 when he made the jump to the Saudi-backed side. 

DeChambeau’s jaw-dropping LIV Golf earnings

Two years later, DeChambeau is $21 million richer with two more titles under his belt. However, the maiden year was not financially gratifying for the eight-time PGA Tour winner as he earned $3,511,750, only a million more than what his first Major victory put in his pocket. 

But The 2020 U.S. Open Champion took home $17.9 million alone this season, a major chunk of which, $8 million, came from his two individual victories. The eight-time PGA Tour winner was also slated to bag $4 million more before Brooks Koepka knocked him off the third position in the individual leaderboard.

Moreover, his team, Crushers GC, finished at the second spot with two victories this season in addition to its 10 top-five finishes. On top of that, from the $14 million Crushers GC pulled in with their dominant performance in the LIV Golf Miami. DeChambeau earned $1.4 million.

So, in just two years, the 30-year-old has earned more than half the money he earned in his five-year stint with the PGA Tour. Add to that the nine-figure LIV Golf contract, around the ballpark of $125 billion, and you get a picture of why DeChambeau has so much faith in LIV Golf supremacy.

Bryson DeChambeau feels LIV Golf will dominate

Bryson DeChambeau believes LIV Golf is here to stay. And by staying, he doesn’t mean playing second fiddle to the PGA Tour, rather the PIF-funded league is going to dominate the landscape. “LIV is going to be a dominant force. I don’t know what the landscape will look like or if it will even be called LIV, but I can say that it will be here. Team golf will be here to stay.”

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Adding further, the Dallas native said in the Good Good podcast, “I know in my heart that the team aspect will continue to permeate through the game of golf for as long as I’m alive.” It seems the Scientist believes LIV Golf has given the idea that transcends beyond the confines of Greg Norman’s frontier. Whether the team concept will persist only time can tell, but the PGA Tour’s inflated purse in the last two years testifies that money does indeed speak.

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