LIV Golf’s decision to move to a 72-hole format was always going to create mixed reactions.

But many people did not expect the strongest criticism to come from one of the league’s biggest players.

Bryson DeChambeau arrived at Sentosa Golf Club for LIV Golf Singapore this week with that debate still fresh in everyone’s mind.

The two-time U.S. Open champion spoke at a press conference on Thursday, March 12. The Crushers GC captain laid out exactly how the extra round rewires a player's thinking.

"When we were playing three rounds, it was a sprint," he said.

"You had to go for everything. If you made a bogey or double, you were putting yourself quite a bit behind the 8-ball."

Now that the new format has actually started, DeChambeau is speaking more honestly about how the change is affecting players mentally, including himself and many others on the LIV Golf tour.

Four days change that arithmetic entirely. Mistakes that would have buried a leaderboard position in 54 holes become recoverable.

"You can hit a couple bad shots here and there and have one super low round and be right back in the mix," DeChambeau said.

But there is another side to it, too. DeChambeau is trying not to get too comfortable with the longer format. Major tournaments require players to stay sharp and play with urgency, and he does not want four-day events to make him lose that edge.

“I still try to treat it like a sprint because I want to feel that same pressure when I play majors,” he said. In a way, he is playing a mental game with himself. He is training his mind to ignore the extra time that a four-day event gives players.

DeChambeau's LIV Future Adds Extra Weight to Every Word

DeChambeau is in the final year of his LIV contract, and that makes everything he says about the league more important right now.

When he made those comments in February 2026, LIV Golf was already going through a difficult period.

Since then, Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed have left the league and returned to the PGA Tour through its Returning Member Program. With two big names gone, DeChambeau has become one of the key players LIV can’t easily afford to lose.

For now, he has not said clearly what he will do after 2026. His usual response has been simple: “I’m under contract this year. After that, we’ll see what happens.”

At the same time, his YouTube channel has become another strong path for him. The channel now has nearly 2.6 million subscribers and keeps growing. This year, DeChambeau even said that focusing fully on YouTube while only playing in major tournaments could be “a very real option” for him in the future.

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Written by

Sneha Abraham

Edited by

Kalp Thaker