"Effective immediately, Rocket Mortgage has ended its sponsorship agreement with Bryson. As has been widely reported, Bryson elected to join the LIV Golf Series. "Our partnership with the PGA Tour extends to several prominent golfers, including Bryson DeChambeau, as ambassadors of the Rocket Mortgage brand. "The Rocket Mortgage Classic has quickly become a fixture on the Tour, with players coming to Detroit to compete, while also raising crucial funds to help bridge the digital divide in our city. "Rocket Mortgage has been a long-time supporter of the PGA Tour, both through our role as an official partner and as a tournament host," Rocket Mortgage's Aaron Emerson said in a statement. SPEAKING OUT: Phil Mickelson breaks silence on Saudi Arabia furore 'NEED MORE TIME': Golf fans saddened by Tiger Woods announcement One of the big-hitting American's sponsors, Rocket Mortgage, reacted to the development by announcing it was cutting ties with DeChambeau, effective immediately.ĭRAMA: Damning photo of Greg Norman emerges amid LIV golf controversy Pic: Gettyīryson DeChambeau has copped stunning backlash after confirmation the American golfer is the latest big name to join the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series.
They may have to follow suit with what Jay and the PGA Tour are doing, so watch this space.Bryson DeChambeau is the latest big-name player to commit to Greg Norman's controversial LIV Golf series. I really hope The European Tour makes a good decision. "I think he has a fantastic opportunity here with a lot of European players and European Tour players that would like to subsidize their schedule with other events, especially if we are not allowed to play on the PGA Tour. "Will Keith follow suit? I hope he doesn't," McDowell said. The second LIV event happens to conflict with the DP Tour's Irish Open. McDowell shared Garcia's hope that Keith Pelley, who heads the DP World Tour, wouldn't simply follow in lockstep with the PGA Tour and ban the participants in LIV Golf from competing on their home circuit. We'll wait and see what happens over there." But I definitely would like to keep my membership there, play at least my minimum, and you know, get my - as good a chance as I can to make The Ryder Cup Team because I love that event. Garica confirmed that he has no intention, however, of giving up his membership to the DP World Tour.Īnd obviously we're going to have to wait and see what the European Tour does. Excited to finally be here playing and see the reaction of the people and the players and everything. It's going to allow me to see my family more, spend more time with my kids, 4 and 2, spend as much time as I can, and I make a good living doing it. It's going to allow me to do what I love, which is playing golf.
"I'm very happy to be here for many reasons. "That's one of the reasons why I resigned because I didn't want to get into my legal battles," Garcia said. When told of the ban from playing the Tour, including sponsor invites, Sergio Garcia claimed it didn't apply to him because he was no longer a member. Even in the face of consequences which we knew were kind of on the horizon."
I feel like confidence has been strengthened. "Unfortunately this is going to be short-term pain, but I think all the players that are here this week have only been strengthened in their confidence that we are making the right decisions here because we feel like the execution level that we're seeing here, the passion, the love of the game of golf that these guys have at LIV, that's why we're here. OPINION: McDowell's reputation latest victim of Saudi rent-a-stooge scheme OPINION: Teeing off on golfers taking Saudis' cash ignores realities of complicated world