Bryson DeChambeau Wants Pro Golf To Come Together, But Conveniently Doesn't Want To Take On Responsibility

Whether it be the fans, the players, media members, sponsors, broadcasting partners, or anyone else with a remote interest in professional golf, everyone wants to see the sport come back together in some capacity. The division between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf has dragged on for too long and with the Tour and Saudi PIF continuing to drag their feet on some form of an investment agreement, the interest in professional golf is at a low we've ever seen in the 21st century.

Given the sport's many changes over the past couple of years and many moving pieces, it's as if some have forgotten that LIV Golf and the Saudi's bottomless pockets are the root cause of this predicament the game finds itself in today. Yes, the PGA Tour and DP World Tour essentially banned LIV players from competing on their tours, but that situation only came to be due to LIV's emergence.

Bryson DeChambeau is a smart guy, he surely knows that LIV is the entity that started this mess, but it sounds like someone needs to remind him of that fact.

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Speaking ahead of this week's LIV Miami event at Doral, the former U.S. Open champ explained that professional golf needs a coming together sooner rather than later.

His sentiment was there, but his messaging was delusional with a sprinkle of hypocrisy.

"Well there's multiple ways that you can solve this problem. I think that from a player's perspective, it needs to come back together for the fans, No. 1," DeCahmbeau began.

"The fans are what drive this sport. If we don't have fans, we don't have golf. We are not up here entertaining. That's the most important thing as of right now, the low-hanging fruit. There's got to be a way to come together. How that comes together, that's above all of us out here."

All fair points, but here come the comments detached from reality.

"We can give input. We can have little moments where we say, hey, we think this would be a good idea or that would be a good idea, but ultimately, it's up to the guys up top to figure it out and figure it out quickly because we can't keep going this direction," DeChambeau continued. "It's not sustainable for sure, and we all respect that and recognize that and want the best for the game of golf. We all love this game and we want to keep playing it and we want to keep competing."

"The only answer is for us to somehow come together in some sort of terms where it makes sense and for us to be playing all again in somewhat of the same boat. It's great to have the majors where we come together, but we want to be competing, at least I want to be competing every week, with all of the best players in the world for sure."

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No, DeChambeau cannot single-handedly bring golf back together, but for him to toss blame and responsibility at "the guys up top" while he very much played a key role in the demise we're seeing in the sport is rich. Very, very rich.

In the prime of his career and as a legitimate star on the PGA Tour, DeChambeau bolted for a generational-wealth-sized check from LIV Golf. Anyone who judges someone for leaving one job for the same exact job offering significantly more money is kidding themselves, but that doesn't justify DeChambeau coming across as a guy who knows he got his hands dirty, wants to clean them, but refuses to do so because there isn't expensive soap on the counter and a hot warm towel waiting for him.

People who help create a mess typically play a role in cleaning it up, they don't just point the finger at others while watching commas build up in their bank account, say the right thing, and hope nobody notices.