DeChambeau says he will not rewrite LIV years as league winds down

Bryson DeChambeau says he will not "rewrite the last four years" after LIV Golf confirmed it intends to wind down its operations.

In a statement on Instagram, which the BBC reported, the two-time major champion said he had made a decision he believed in and was grateful for what came with it. It was his first public statement since the wind-down was confirmed. He also said he had given everything he had to keep team golf alive.

LIV, the rival league that launched in 2022 with money from Saudi Arabia, said it was winding down because it lacked financial support. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund withdrew its backing in April. On 5 November, LIV described the move as an orderly wind-down, and framed it as an update on a court-supervised restructuring process. That means a company reorganises its debts under a judge's oversight.

Reuters has reported that LIV filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a United States process that lets a firm reorganise while it keeps operating. The filing came with a $49.6 million bankruptcy loan intended to restructure the business.

The league has been at the centre of a long dispute with the PGA Tour. In August 2022, a group of LIV players filed a federal lawsuit against the Tour, seeking to invalidate its regulations. The PGA Tour refused to let its members compete in LIV events and suspended golfers who defected, Reuters reported on 5 November.

Jon Rahm and Lee Westwood announced they would quit LIV after the wind-down was confirmed. DeChambeau captains the league's Crushers team, which included England's Paul Casey. Team golf is rare in a sport built on individual scorecards, so losing a team league stands out to many fans.

DeChambeau's next confirmed appearance is in December, when he will play Gary Player's Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa.

Elsewhere, the PGA Tour reported on 8 November that Rory McIlroy fell short to Jon Rahm at the Abu Dhabi Championship, a DP World Tour event. The result kept the spotlight on the two stars at a time when LIV's future is being decided in court.

For fans, the story is less about one golfer's choices than about a league that spent years trying to pull top players away from the established tours. Its finances are now the deciding factor. DeChambeau's message is that he stands by his choice, even as the venture he backed winds down.