Golf analyst Brandel Chamblee rips LIV Golf as reports fuel speculation about its future: 'Lame-brained tour'

With a "bombshell announcement" reportedly coming astir LIV Golf, Golf Channel expert and erstwhile PGA Tour pro Brandel Chamblee believes the rival circuit is coming to an end.

Golf newsman Ryan French said during an X Spaces broadcast that helium has "some beauteous bully sources" that told him "LIV is shutting down," according to the FlushingItGolf relationship that was listening.

"I’ve got everything from, and these are radical that I trust, that you guys know," French said, per the account. "Players didn’t get paid today, powerfulness went retired due to the fact that the measure wasn’t paid, employees didn’t get paid. Stuff similar that."

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TV expert Brandel Chamblee looks connected during a signifier circular earlier the 123rd U.S. Open Championship astatine the Los Angeles Country Club successful Los Angeles, Calif., connected June 13, 2023. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Telegraph Sport reported Wednesday that LIV Golf executives person been called into an exigency gathering successful New York amid speculation astir the league's future.

Chamblee, who has been 1 of LIV Golf’s biggest critics since its inception, backed French’s report, believing the circuit volition crumble.

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"Given that the merchandise was truthful ill-conceived and ended up being worse than anyone could person imagined – with shotgun starts, initially 54 holes, a squad conception that was thing but laughable and tournaments that meant and proceed to mean nothing, and specified a paltry fig of viewers, losing billions on the mode – would it astonishment anyone if the Saudis came to their corrupted senses and yet euthanized the full lame-brained tour," Chamblee wrote connected X successful effect to the reports.

The days of a imaginable merger betwixt LIV Golf and the PGA Tour look to beryllium a tube imagination now, particularly arsenic LIV stars similar Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed came backmost to their aged roots.

Brandel Chamblee of the United States plays during Day One of the Irish Legends astatine Rosapenna Hotel and Golf Resort successful Donegal, Ireland, connected Aug. 18, 2022. (Phil Inglis/Getty Images)

In fact, Koepka is simply a portion of a caller Returning Member Program, which allows LIV golfers who won a large oregon Players Championship since 2022, to instrumentality to the PGA Tour nether circumstantial conditions and fiscal penalties.

And portion they haven’t done so, Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Cam Smith are each eligible for Koepka’s program. Reed isn’t successful the program, though helium is moving done a suspension period, wherever helium plans connected returning to the Tour arsenic a non-member successful August 2026 earlier hopefully regaining afloat presumption successful 2027.

Meanwhile, LIV Golf is acceptable to tee disconnected astatine its Mexico lawsuit this week, and they inactive person 9 events scheduled for the remainder of the 2026 schedule.

First spot idiosyncratic champion, Captain Bryson DeChambeau of Crushers GC, holds the trophy during the trophy ceremonial aft the last circular of Aramco LIV Golf Singapore connected Sunday, March 15, 2026 successful Sentosa, Singapore. (Mateo Villalba/AP)

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But, arsenic French said connected X Spaces, "Things are not good."

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