Bryson DeChambeau's LIV Golf career ripped to shreds - 'It's a part-time job'

Bryson DeChambeau has been accused by Paul McGinley of treating the LIV Golf tour like a "part-time job" as he prepares to vie for a second major championship success of 2024 at the Open .

The American's stunning victory at the U.S. Open in June represented one of the most dramatic conclusions to a sporting event of the year so far. Prevailing after Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final three holes, the 30-year-old seized the initiative to snatch the win from the Northern Irishman at Pinehurst No. 2 in a memorable spectacle.

Prior to this triumph, the previous 2020 U.S. Open winner was among the exodus of elite stars who joined the LIV Golf tour - lured in June, 2022 to the tune of a $125 million over four-and-a-half years. However, since defecting to the Saudi Arabian entity, he has won just two events on the PIF-backed tour.

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Having earned the second major of his career with his heroics in North Carolina, the perceived contrast in his showings in major championships when compared with the LIV tour has left some observers perplexed. Chief among those is analyst McGinley, who said on the Golf Channel: "He doesn't need to play a lot of reps competitively like 99.9% of other players have to do.

"He can go from the lab out to competing in major championships," he continued, as he gave his perspective on the demands of the Saudi Arabian circuit. "I don't think he's that interested in how he plays in LIV. It looks like it's a part-time job. The real job is being in the lab."

While DeChambeau has not addressed these comments directly, his previous remarks to the Telegraph suggested that he is settled after his switch to LIV. Speaking about the stability it has given him after the death of his father, he admitted: "It would have been impossible for me to have come this far again without LIV. It gave me the time to get healthy and develop.

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"I came to LIV and suddenly there were players in the same boat as me. Because they were getting stick as well not from the LIV fans but seemingly everywhere else. I was not alone in being disliked and could share these feelings with my team-mates and my colleagues.

"But slowly that has changed and whether it was the thing with the PGA Tour [the 'framework agreement'] people are coming around to what we are all about. It's about moving an inch and ideating a mile. We have come a long way and we continue to move progressively in small incremental amounts. It's just going to domino at some point."

Looking forward to his latest foray at the Open at Royal Troon, the American hero said: "The British fans were always great to me, even through all of that. Hey, they booed me at St Andrews a few years ago, but that was only because they wanted me to take driver on every hole.

"It's great fun, but I have to rein myself back in, because I really want to give them what they want around those tee-boxes. I have learned to be more disciplined, because as much as you want to entertain, this is a sport."