Despite his high-profile move to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour, Bryson DeChambeau has surprisingly earned less than 13 PGA Tour stars this season. DeChambeau's performance in the LIV Golf season has been inconsistent. He finished T6 at the season-opening event in Riyadh, but then had a disappointing run with T18 at Adelaide and T20 at Hong Kong.
He managed to break into the top 10 with a tied-10th finish in Singapore, before hitting his stride with a fifth-place finish in Miami ahead of the Masters. However, at Augusta, DeChambeau fell short after entering the final day paired with Rory McIlroy, who went on to win his first green jacket in a playoff.
DeChambeau rebounded from his Masters disappointment by finishing tied-second at Mexico City, where Joaquinn Niemann secured his third win of the LIV Golf season. Niemann leads the earnings with $12,604,905, while DeChambeau is trailing in eighth place.
Despite not having won on the Saudi-backed circuit this season, DeChambeau has still earned $4,033,250. Interestingly, 13 PGA Tour stars have earned more than DeChambeau.
The roster of golfers out-earning DeChambeau includes names like McIlroy with a staggering $13,326,650, Justin Thomas at $6,920,663, and Russell Henley with $6,223,775. They are followed by Collin Morikawa who has pocketed $5,939,464, Ludvig Aberg at $5,704,223, Andrew Novak with $5,587,605, and Scottie Scheffler earning $4,929,197.
Maverick McNealy has taken home $4,808,051, J. J. Spaun sits at $4,698,535, Hideki Matsuyama has earned $4,674,913, Sepp Straka boasts $4,628,709, Corey Conners has accumulated $4,201,631, and Justin Rose rounds off the list with $4,119,619.
Bryson DeChambeau made headlines when he inked a lucrative $125 million contract to join LIV Golf in June 2022. His commitment spans four-and-a-half years, ensuring his exclusive participation in the LIV Golf series until the end of the 2026 season.
Yet, the 31-year-old golfer might have bagged even more than the reported figures. On the "Country Club Adjacent" podcast, when DeChambeau's "$125 million smile" was mentioned, he intriguingly hinted at a higher figure.
"That's a little low," DeChambeau responded. "I'm not gonna say the details, I mean for what's reported it's somewhat close. It's a four-and-a-half-year deal, I can definitely tell you that and a lot of it was upfront, which is great."
Bryson DeChambeau's ambitions of clinching his first LIV Golf title since 2023 in Mexico City fell short as he struggled to keep up with Niemann. After his opening round, the American golfer reflected on the course's difficulties, stating: "The golf course is gettable, but it's diabolical, as well. There were a lot of moments where I felt like I was going to get it to nine, ten-under, and there were moments where I'm like, man, 'I could be three-under or two-under easily if I don't get my act in shape.
"It's a teeter-totter golf course. You can hit a drive down by the green, but it depends on the lie, depends on the flag, depends on if you can make some six, seven-footers out here."
DeChambeau's earnings are reflective of the substantial sums LIV Golf is known to offer its marquee players. It's said that Phil Mickelson joined for around $200 million, while Dustin Johnson, the two-time major champion, allegedly pocketed close to $150 million.
These huge offers extend to other major names in golf, such as Tiger Woods, whom LIV Golf courted with an offer believed to be about $1 billion as per Greg Norman's ambitious project. Yet, Woods declined this astonishing bid, choosing to remain with the PGA Tour and going on to create TGL.
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