Another week on the PGA Tour, another week without Bryson DeChambeau.
Last week, DeChambeau announced that he wouldn’t defend his title at the Arnold Palmer Invitational – won Sunday by Scottie Scheffler – citing a nagging wrist injury. In a text message to Golfweek, DeChambeau acknowledged he will not return to the PGA Tour this upcoming week, either.
“I did,” DeChambeau confirmed to Golfweek when asked if he withdrew from The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, the PGA Tour’s premier event. “Almost ready.”
DeChambeau now joins Phil Mickelson and Harris English as the only players ranked inside the world’s top 50 that won’t be teeing it up at TPC Sawgrass.
“Getting ready for something big,” the eight-time Tour winner added. “Many plans in the works.”
Those plans remain a mystery. DeChambeau has long been tied to a rival league backed by Saudi Arabia, but has denied being offered $135 million to join the Super Golf League and implored golf fans to “chill” about his WD from the Saudi International due to a fall that caused a hip injury and hand injury.
Two weeks ago DeChambeau announced that, “as long as the best players in the world are playing the PGA Tour, so will I. As of now, I am focused on getting myself healthy and competing again soon.”
The 2020 U.S. Open champion hasn’t teed it up in a PGA Tour event since the Farmers Insurance Open in late January and was recently discovered to have earned $3.5 million from the Tour’s Player Impact Program.
Golf Channel’s Ryan Lavner was first to report the news of DeChambeau’s absence at the Players.