PGA Tour sorely 'missing Bryson DeChambeau' as golf star turns on his own bosses

The is missing a figurehead like , according to Andrew Landry. The two-time PGA winner is worried about the future of the Tour, claiming the marketable figures have been poached by competitor LIV Golf.

Ever since the LIV Golf endeavour was announced, the rival tour has been at odds with the PGA. Many, including DeChambeau, jumped ship to join the Saudi Arabian-backed project - something Landry believes was a mistake.

On the current state of the PGA Tour, he told Golf Monthly: "It's sloppy, it really is. The TV ratings are down because you're getting guys that, even me, I've played out there and now I'm watching and I'm like 'who's that guy? I've never heard of that guy.' I'm like, I don't know any of these people.

"You miss the John Rahms, you miss the Dustin Johnsons, you miss all these guys, Pat Perez and Kevin Na. And those guys made the tour. I'm certainly not saying that Scottie Scheffler doesn't make the tour, but we were one tour. Everybody from the number one guy to the 125 guy made the tour. And so I hate the way that it's going now."

DeChambeau, who boasted eight PGA Tour wins before his departure, was confirmed as a LIV member in June 2022. The 31-year-old does get the chance to rub shoulders with the likes of Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele when the four annual majors roll around. But for Landry, that isn't enough.

He continued: "I think that the big person that we lost that, probably the most marketable person, was Bryson [DeChambeau]. I feel like that was a big loss for the PGA Tour. I think Dustin [Johnson] was a big loss at the time just because he was number one in the world or close to it. But I think that with where Dustin was in his career, he's kind of later in his career at that point and Bryson was just kind of coming up.

"I just feel like, man, whenever we had COVID and he gained all that distance and he was drawing the crowds, you could tell where he was on the golf course. I mean, it was Tiger crowds, where people are going to go out there and watch them specifically. And you don't see crowds like that anymore."

The PGA Tour continues this weekend with the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Ohio.