LIV golfer Bryson DeChambeau has no doubt team golf is here to stay

The golfing world currently finds itself in a state of limbo. While hostilities between the game's traditional powers and the upstart LIV Golf Tour have subsided, a deal has yet to be fully thrashed out following the confirmation of a  framework agreement way back in June.

No one is quite clear what the deal is going to mean for the various stakeholders at this stage, but LIV golfers are once talking fairly tough - no doubt emboldened by the announcement that Spanish World No 2 Jon Rahm was also making the move to the Saudi-backed tour.

One such player is Bryson DeChambeau, who has warned the PGA Tour and its loyalists that their deep-pocketed rivals are here to stay - along with the team golf format.

"In the end, when this is all said about LIV and done, five years out from now LIV is going to exist," DeChambeau said during an appearance on the Good Good Podcast. "LIV is going to be a dominant force. I don't know what the landscape will look like or if it will even be called LIV, but I can say that it will be here. Team golf will be here to stay.

"I know in my heart that the team aspect will continue to permeate through the game of golf for as long as I'm alive. That's my opinion. I could be wrong, but from everything that I feel, the sentiment, the movement, the way things are headed, I do believe that LIV will be here to stay."

Time is running out for the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and LIV Golf Tour to confirm a deal, as their self-imposed deadline of December 31 is just days away.

DeChambeau said he was disappointed by the fact that a deal has not yet been announced but he has no doubt a workable solution will be found.

"Yeah, a thousand per cent. And they're working on it now. And it's going to be a difficult road because there's a lot of people with a lot of agendas. It's so political. And it's very disappointing. It's disappointing because something should have been done a long time ago.

"It should have been over three or four years ago and it have been unbelievable for the game of golf."

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