DeChambeau offered full DP World Tour membership for 2027

The DP World Tour has told Bryson DeChambeau’s advisers that he can take up full membership in 2027 on the strength of his 2024 US Open win, The Telegraph’s James Corrigan reports. He has until 14 November to send in his entry form. The paper says he is the only LIV player outside the tour’s membership who holds such an exemption.

DeChambeau never signed up for LIV 2.0, the relaunch BC Partners had offered to fund. “None of the big names signed. Dustin Johnson, Cam Smith, Joaquin Niemann, Bryson DeChambeau,” Sports Business Journal’s Josh Carpenter posted on X. He had met BC Partners, whose $300 million rescue fell through before LIV told the bankruptcy court on Thursday that it would wind down. The week before the rescue collapsed, he had praised the plan on the Figuring Out podcast: “It’s no funny business, no nothing. It’s going to be done right.”

His one confirmed DP World Tour start is the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Gary Player Country Club, Sun City, on 3–6 December, which he committed to in August. This year he won LIV Golf Singapore and LIV Golf South Africa and missed the cut in three of the four majors.

A top-10 finish on the 2027 Race to Dubai could earn him a PGA TOUR card for 2028, subject to that tour’s eligibility rules, The Telegraph reports. The paper expects DeChambeau to face the same one-year suspension that Jon Rahm, who left LIV in October, has said he expects to serve.

LIV players who already hold DP World Tour membership options, among them Lee Westwood, have until 16 November to take up 2027 membership.

Sources

• The Telegraph via Yahoo Sports: Bryson DeChambeau offered free route back to tour after LIV demise
• New York Post via Yahoo Sports: Bryson DeChambeau gets path back to PGA Tour after LIV Golf collapse
• GolfMagic: Bryson DeChambeau U-turn deals final blow to LIV Golf as $300m rescue bid collapses
• GolfMagic: Bryson DeChambeau offered unique DP World Tour lifeline after LIV Golf collapse