Pro golfer Bryson DeChambeau announced that he is withdrawing from the LIV Mexico City Golf Tournament due to a wrist injury.
“I experienced some discomfort in my wrist during yesterday’s round and have decided to withdraw from the final round of LIV Golf Mexico City to prevent further injury,” said DeChambeau in a Sunday, April 19 statement via X. “Not how I wanted this week to go, but wishing the Crushers a strong finish.”
He continued, “I’m going to take a few days to get evaluated and hope to be ready for LIV Golf Virginia.”
The announcement comes at the heels of a disappointing Masters Tournament at Augusta National, where DeChambeau missed the cut after two rounds, ending his tournament early.
“Just give what the golf course gives me. I have to hit my irons better,” he said after his first round at the Masters. “I drove it left on numerous occasions … Wind didn’t hurt it like we thought, but that’s this game, that’s the golf course. Everybody has an ability for weird things to happen, and today I just did not have my irons under control.”
Before withdrawing from the LIV Golf tournament, DeChambeau was attempting to become the first player to win three consecutive times at LIV Golf. He struggled at the start of the tournament and was 16 shots behind leader Jon Rahm when he withdrew.
After his most recent LIV Golf victory — at LIV South Africa — DeChambeau was brought to tears while addressing the crowd.
“A lot has happened in the past week. I’m just so grateful for my team, the Crushers, everybody supporting me,” he said. “It’s so funny, golf is a fickle game, and you work so hard at it your whole entire life, and you realize that golf is just golf and there’s a lot more to life than just golf.”
DeChambeau didn’t go into detail about what happened outside of the tournament, but said he “was just praying all day” that he would have the “perseverance to move forward and keep looking forward.”
LIV Golf itself has been under some scrutiny recently, as rumors started circulating that the golf organization — the Saudi-funded group that serves as a competitor of the PGA Tour — was going to lose its funding.
LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil quickly doused the speculation, saying the organization will run its 2026 season “exactly as planned.”
“I want to be crystal clear: Our season continues exactly as planned, uninterrupted and at full throttle,” O’Neil said on Wednesday, April 15. “While the media landscape is often filled with speculation, our reality is defined by the work we do on the grass. We are heading into the heart of our 2026 schedule with the full energy of an organization that is bigger, louder, and more influential than ever before.”
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