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 nan rival circuit is coming to an end.

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

"I’ve sewage everything from, and these are group that I trust, that you guys know," French said, per nan account. "Players didn’t get paid today, powerfulness went retired because nan measure wasn’t paid, labor didn’t get paid. Stuff for illustration that."

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TV expert Brandel Chamblee looks connected during a believe information earlier nan 123rd U.S. Open Championship astatine nan 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 emergency gathering successful New York amid speculation astir nan league's future.

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

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"Given that nan merchandise was truthful ill-conceived and ended up being worse than anyone could person imagined – pinch 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 number of viewers, losing billions on nan measurement – would it astonishment anyone if nan Saudis came to their corrupted senses and yet euthanized nan full lame-brained tour," Chamblee wrote connected X successful consequence to nan reports.

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

Brandel Chamblee of nan United States plays during Day One of nan 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 awesome aliases Players Championship since 2022, to return to nan PGA Tour nether circumstantial conditions and financial penalties.

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

Meanwhile, LIV Golf is group to tee disconnected astatine its Mexico event this week, and they still person 9 events scheduled for nan remainder of nan 2026 schedule.

First spot individual champion, Captain Bryson DeChambeau of Crushers GC, holds nan trophy during nan trophy ceremonial aft nan last information 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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