Bryson DeChambeau’s frustrations boiled over during Thursday at LIV Golf’s tournament in Mexico City.
DeChambeau, after hitting a shot out of the bunker and over the green, was captured saying, “You got destroyed grass” as he looked over his ball.
Then, DeChambeau, the polarizing golfer who missed the cut at the Masters last week, asked, “Oh, is this rough? Definitely good to see.”
“Guys, this is what we’re playing with apparently,” DeChambeau said of the grass as he continued to talk to a rules official and his caddie.
The sarcastic comments were made as DeChambeau — the two-time U.S. Open champion who defected to the rival league when it started operation and opted not to return to the PGA Tour this year even as others did — also flipped his hands in exasperation multiple times, before he eventually hit a shot onto the green and proceeded to sink his putt.
DeChambeau finished the first day with an even 71 in a tie for 29th place, though it marked a bit of a rough start for the 32-year-old after he won consecutive tournaments at the Singapore and South Africa events leading into the Masters.
But at Augusta National, DeChambeau finished six-over — including a triple-bogey on the final hole Friday — and missed the cut at the tournament for the first time since 2023.
Now, with the LIV Golf slate resuming, anything that happens on the course will have the funding concerns looming over it, though.
Executives reportedly attended an “emergency summit” in New York earlier this week, with the Financial Times reporting that the Saudi-backed league was in danger of losing its funding.
CEO Scott O’Neill pushed back on the notion that the league was shutting down, though — and said it’s going “full throttle” with its events.
“I want to be crystal clear: Our season continues exactly as planned, uninterrupted and at full throttle,” O’Neil wrote in an email, according to multiple reports. “While the media landscape is often filled with speculation, our reality is defined by the work we do on the grass. We are heading into the heart of our 2026 schedule with the full energy of an organization that is bigger, louder, and more influential than ever before.”
Victor Perez shot a nine-under opening round in Mexico City to take a three-shot lead over Jon Rahm entering play Friday.
