The dust is still settling from LIV Golf’s 2026 season finale in Indianapolis. The question now is whether it will prove to be the final LIV Golf tournament in history. Bryson DeChambeau didn’t provide much clarity on the matter Sunday night.
Instead, DeChambeau offered up conflicting thoughts on LIV’s future, at first professing his excitement at “what could happen next year,” before talking about LIV in the past tense and even acknowledging unspecified mistakes the upstart league has made.
DeChambeau after LIV’s season finale: ‘We did something different in the game’
After a year of increasingly bad news, LIV’s season came to an abrupt end on Sunday night at LIV Golf Indianapolis.
With the season-ending Team Championship cancelled, both the season-long individual winner (Jon Rahm) and the 2026 team winner (Rahm’s Legion XIII) were determined.
DeChambeau finished T3 in Indy, leaving him in second place in the final Individual standings, while his Crushers team failed to make the final podium.
With funding for the league gone, thanks to the PIF’s decision to cut its losses earlier this year, no one knows if a 2027 LIV season will happen.
While Phil Mickelson was the primary force behind the creation of LIV Golf, DeChambeau was always the league’s biggest star and public booster. With the league’s future in doubt, that remains the case… to a point.
Even after Sunday’s round was over, DeChambeau was still expressing optimism for what the future holds for LIV, at least at first.
“I think there’s a lot of potential moving forward. It’s been an interesting ride, that’s for sure,” DeChambeau said Sunday night. “You know just as much as I have everything that we’ve gone through and the tough moments that we’ve had. But it’s made us stronger.”
He then invoked the concept of LIV 2.0, which the league’s CEO hopes will be anchored by new big-money investors, and revealed he has “great thoughts” about next season without divulging any details.
“As much as we’re transitioning from LIV 1.0 to 2.0, I have great thoughts about what could happen next year. I wish I could be more up front about it,” DeChambeau said.
However, after his initial positivity, DeChambeau then switched to talking about LIV Golf in the past tense and alluded to mistakes the league made over the years.
“But ultimately I’m proud of the fact of what we’ve done, the good and some of the bad that we’ve unfortunately had, things that have occurred,” DeChambeau said. “I’m going to be real with it; not everything was perfect. But for the most part we’ve done a solid job.”
But his closing line should raise the most questions among observers and fans interested in what the future holds for LIV, if there is a future at all. Bryson again delivered it in the past tense.
“If there’s one thing that I could say, it’s we did something different in the game of golf, and I’m proud of that.”
That sounds an awful lot like LIV’s biggest proponent is resigned to the fact that the league might be finished for good.
This article originated on Golf.com
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