Bryson DeChambeau – PGA Tour’s call on Ryder Cup tuneup
Bryson Dechambeau said he would love to put him in place with the rest of his Ryder Cup teammates when they play a PGA Tour event next month in preparation for their battle against Team Europe with Bethpage Black in New York at the end of September.
One problem: the PGA Tour, for the moment, will not let this happen.
As a golf player LIV, Dechambeau remains ineligible to play in a PGA Tour event. This would prevent him from participating in the Championship processes Napa, California, an event two weeks before the Ryder Cup that US captain Keegan Bradley said he hoped that American players will compete to keep their matches.
“It depends on the tour and their decision to take,” said Dechambeau in Sports Illustrated on Friday during the Liv Golf Indianapolis event. “It is on them if they do not let us become together as a team and play.”
Dechambeau said Liv would agree with that.
“It is a scenario that is unhappy, and I hope that it is different, but Liv is willing to let me play,” he told Si.
Bradley previously said that Dechambeau would be part of the team. The Double Champion of the US Open is fifth in the Ryder Cup classification, a virtual lock to be one of the six automatic qualifications of the Americans when they are announced after the BMW championship of this week. Bradley will make six captain choices on August 27, three days after the Tour championship in East Lake in Atlanta; A second LIV player being part of the American team is unlikely.
The Americans are trying to bounce back from an unbalanced defeat to the European team at the Ryder Cup 2023 in Italy. The majority of the American team did not competitively played between the Tour and the Ryder Cup championship that year – a period of four weeks and more – and some have pointed this as a reason for its difficulties.
