Bryson DeChambeau has suggested that he would focus on growing his YouTube channel rather than a return to the PGA Tour if LIV Golf does not continue to operate.
The future of LIV is in some doubt after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) confirmed that it would not be funding the series beyond the season, with the breakaway series now seeking new investors.
DeChambeau is one of the marquee stars of the venture with a sizeable profile both within and outside of golf. His YouTube channel has 2.69m subscribers, and has featured guests including President Donald Trump and a host of sporting stars.
The 32-year-old was offered the chance to return to the PGA Tour earlier this year via the returning member programme, but declined to follow Brooks Koepka to instead remain with LIV.
And DeChambeau has suggested that cultivating his YouTube audience around the world would become his focus if LIV does not continue, while also playing a limited number of tournaments.
“I think, from my perspective, I'd love to grow my YouTube channel three times, maybe even more," two-time major winner DeChambeau said to ESPN.
"I would love to. I'd love to do a bunch of dubbing in different languages, giving the world more reason to watch YouTube. And then I'd love to play tournaments that want me."
DeChambeau's LIV contract is up at the end of this season, with reports suggesting that he had been negotiating a new deal before the news of PIF’s withdrawal.
He admitted that the announcement had come as a surprise, but that he hopes that it might enable golf to come back together.
"I was completely shocked," DeChambeau said. "I didn't expect it to happen. A couple months before that, it's like: 'We're here until 2032. We've got financing until 2032,' and so I told everybody, and that's what I was told.
"And then, you know, I haven't had any communication. And unfortunately, things are moving on in a different direction. Obviously, they wanted to move on.
"If we have a great business model and they're [PGA Tour, DP World Tour] very interested in combining forces, that's the Kumbaya moment, right?
"So, it's our job to come up with a better business plan on the [top company] side. The team franchises, there's enough making profit now to where we could sell them for close to $200m (£147m), and that's not talking about my team either.
"I think it requires a little bit of everybody kind of just lowering their guards and all coming together and going: 'OK, what's best for the game of golf?'"
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