The shovels of millions that Arabia has invested in world golf to raise its LIV Golf Invitational circuit is not limited exclusively to the bag of 225 million dollars that they will put into the eight tournaments this season and the more than 1,000 that will be in the two upcoming courses.
Bryson DeChambeau, Liv Golf
Bryson DeChambeau, one of the latest brilliant additions, and a golfer with a powerful power of attraction as he is the player who hits the most in the world, confirmed on the Country Club Adjacent podcast that the fixed amount he has been paid to serve in that competition until the season of 2026 is crazy.
Hinting to commentators that he had a “125 million dollar” smile, the American clarified: “That’s a little low.” “I’m not going to say the details, but I want to say that what has been said is a close number,” DeChambeau said.
“And a lot of it was up front, which is great.” It must be remembered that Charl Schwartel and Branden Grace, the two South Africans who have won the first two tournaments of the tournament promoted by the public fund of Saudi Arabia, pocketed 4 million dollars.
The amount paid to DeChambeau exceeds the $120 million Tiger Woods has earned in prize money over his 26 seasons on the PGA Tour. In 2010, at 16, he won the California State Junior Championship. In June 2015, he became the first Southern Methodist University to triumph at the NCAA Division I Championship, with a record score of 280 (-8).
Another major victory came in August, in the U.S. Amateur. Meanwhile, he had made his debut in the PGA Tour as an amateur in the St. Jude Classic and then participated in the first Major, the U.S. Open. In November he finished second in the Australian Masters professional tournament.
In the following season he reached 21st place at the Masters, after which he turned pro. He started well with a fourth place in the RBC Heritage and a fifteenth place in the U.S. Open, however, he failed to get a card for the 2017 PGA Tour, but qualified for the Web.com Tour Finals, where he got the card thanks to his victory in the DAP Championship.
In July 2017, he earned his first PGA Tour title at the John Deere Classic. 2018 was a year full of triumphs. The first took place at the Memorial Tournament, where DeChambeau in the playoff defeated the two opponents with a birdie on the second hole.
He then won The Northern Trust in August and the Dell Technologies Championship the following week, both valid for the FedEx Cup, where he finished third. He also participated in his first Ryder Cup, where he failed to earn a point and the United States were defeated.
In November came his fourth victory, at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, which allowed him to climb to fifth place in the world rankings. In the 2019 season he obtained his first title in the European Tour by winning the Omega Dubai Desert Classic with seven strokes of the margin.
He participates in the first Presidents Cup, where the United States prevails. Starting from the end of this year and during the COVID-19 pandemic DeChambeau is gaining muscle mass by gaining about 18 kilograms, thus becoming the golfer with the longest tee shot.
In July 2020 he returned to winning a tournament, the Rocket Mortgage Classic, thanks to a final round seven strokes under par. He comes fourth in the PGA Championship, while in September he triumphs in the first Major, the U.S.
Open, in which he is the only player to remain under par. He thus returns to occupy the fifth position in the ranking, his best result to date.
