LIV GOLF SINGAPORE

March 15, 2026

Bryson DeChambeau

Sentosa Golf Club

Crushers GC

Press Conference

THE MODERATOR: Let's welcome to the media center the 2026 Singapore individual champion, Crushers GC captain Bryson DeChambeau. This is your fourth individual LIV Golf win, and as mentioned on the broadcast, your first 72-hole win since the U.S. Open a couple years ago. Probably not the way you expected the playoff to end, however. How are you processing this win?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: A lot of emotion right now. Good emotion, struggling emotion, just everything that you could possibly imagine, it's there. But a lot of joy. A lot of hard work and dedication. It was great to have G-Bo back on, and we really stuck through difficult moments.

I was proud of ourselves for that.

We had a great line for the day that we kept talking about moving forward and only thinking and looking forward, and we stuck to that.

Q. Can you take us through the day? Eagle at the 4th, your long bogey at the 5th, and then four birdies the rest of the way, including that long birdie putt at 14?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, I felt like I was playing really good golf out there. No. 5, oh, my gosh, that hole this week was just a torment to me. I didn't really drive it terrible on that hole and I just got absolutely hosed over in that left bunker on the edge, so that cost me four shots this week.

But 4 was really nice. I drove it down the middle of the fairway on 3 every day, which I was really proud of and it was a difficult tee shot. 6 and 7, they were pretty good to me, as well, and 7 I played beautifully this week.

A couple three-putts yesterday to semi derail me a bit, and green speeds changed and I've got to be aware of that. Today overall just stuck to the process, and then I felt myself getting into that zone. Even though we had those rain delays, I still felt like I was getting out there and focusing on my shots, executing the way I know how to. What kind of sold it for me was the second shot on 15, I hit a beautiful 6-iron right on my line, drew it perfectly. Albeit the tee shot was a little sketchy. It got close to the water. The second shot on 15 was brilliant up to 30 feet and it was a 230-yard shot into the breeze wet conditions and executed it to near perfection. I thought it would run out more but it was a great shot, and that kind of gave me some gust in my sails.

From there on out I was just focused on executing good shots, albeit on 17 I pushed it a little bit. It was still the right distance and wasn't too far off from what I was trying to do. Then 18 I played it beautifully. That's what you have to do. You step up there and you know what you have to do and you execute those shots. That's what you practice your entire career for, and I was just fortunate to execute when it mattered most.

The playoff hole was wild. I didn't want to hit the tee shot but I'm like I'm not going to be that guy and wait it out and come on, you can hit a shot. Right before I took the swing back I saw the golf ball and the there was so much water on the ball, and I'm like, okay, just try to throw it out to the right. I tried to throw it out to the right, and I heeled it and it started just dead left and I'm like, oh, no. Then the wind and the wetness just slid on the face and it went left and didn't have a chance to get over.

At that point I just said to G-Bo, I was like, dude a made a good pass at it; it wasn't a bad swing, it just slipped off the face and went left. I told myself, I just want another chance. I want another chance. Just get down there, hit a 3-wood up there, get it up-and-down, hopefully he makes par and we can have another chance again.

I can't expect what happened to happen, but I was, again, proud of the way I played all week and it was a culmination of a lot of great golf, and I told Richard after that was my major championship golf he played and he'll be competing and contending a lot in the future. I never thought -- I've watched back in the past Tiger beating John Daly and him missing that small putt. I forget exactly where it was. But you see that on TV, and to actually see that happen in front of you, for you to be the positive receiving side of it, it's just a weird feeling. But unless it's a win and something I'll appreciate it for the rest of my life. Even if I lost today, I was still looking pretty good at my game. I was happy with my game. I was excited the way I was striking it coming in the last couple days.

I'm taking a lot of positives from today. There was a lot of emotion, a lot of things going on. But really proud of the way I finished off the day.

Q. It's been a really interesting start to the season. You and Rahm in Adelaide, AK wins, Rahm wins last week, you win this week. It's been a pretty amazing start for LIV Golf, right?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: I think it's been a fantastic start for LIV Golf, and what the 4Aces are doing is incredible. Pretty amazing what AK has brought back into that team, and Thomas Pieters and Detry and Dustin, they're playing great right now. As the Crushers, we want to get back up there again as well.

Unfortunately we haven't played that great this year, but the team side of it, I really want us to push through at the end of this year and give ourselves a good chance like we have the past few years to win the Team Championship.

But there's been a lot of great storylines, and I can't harp enough about how much it means to be a part of the team and seeing how we all compete and contend. Competitive, but we also respect and appreciate how we each individually play.

Q. We're headed to South Africa next week; knowing you're going to be playing in front of 90,000 people, you must be really excited just to get there and experience that as well as coming off a win.

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, it's going to be fantastic. I've never been there. I've heard only great things from numerous people, Gary Player, Louis, Ernie, Charl, you name it, Dean, Branden. They've all raved about it, so I'm looking forward to getting down there and hopefully giving them a show. LIV has been providing a great show this year, so hopefully we can continue to keep that going.

Q. Can you share what was going through your mind as you watch Richard make that putt for par and what went through your mind immediately after that?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, it was a bit of shock for sure. I thought he was just going knock it in, and okay, on we go. He had been playing great golf. He's beaten me numerous times throughout the season already when I've played with him, so he plays great golf, and he deserves to be out here. Honestly, he deserves to be on a team after this performance.

But it was sour for sure to see him miss that. You never want to see that happen. I wanted to go another hole and have a chance to play great golf on that second playoff hole. Just unfortunately didn't go his way today, and that's just the way the cards sometimes fall.

Q. Bryson, it was a grueling day. There was intense heat and there was rain and there were delays. What was going through your mind, and how did you focus mentally throughout your round?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: It really was just a lot of -- I don't even know. It was just more focusing on what I can do, what I can control and executing the best shot and staying in the moment and looking forward. It's a weird combo, I know, but I'm looking forward to the future but still staying here in the present and focusing on that.

I felt like I got into a really nice flow on that back nine. Even though I missed a couple putts, I missed that seven-footer on 11, lipped out a putt on 10, I didn't feel like things were going into a weird way.

When I win tournaments, usually I feel, okay, there's a real opportunity here, and today it wasn't much like that. It was more of keep just executing the way you know how, keep executing and let the cards fall as they may. I just felt more at peace today with it. Usually I've got a lot of feelings towards it. Today was more of like, okay, we're just going to execute every shot to the best of our ability. That's really what I felt today.

Q. Is this your first playoff in the league?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Is it? Individually, yeah. Individually it is. Nice to get a 1-0 there.

But again, I mean, it's almost like it's 50/50 when it's one hole. Richard could have made that putt and it have been over, and I'm sitting in second place and not winning but still happy with the week, and he could have been up here holding the trophy. That's just the way the game of golf is. Sometimes it falls your way and sometimes it doesn't, but the most important thing is giving yourself that opportunity.

Q. Did this week kind of help prepare you for major championship season where in the majors you're not going to shoot four rounds in the 60s most likely and you have one round where you're just putting your best score together and get back in the clubhouse and get back at it?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, it definitely felt like a major test out here this week. Even though the golf course isn't incredibly long, there were times where it played incredibly long because of how tight it was. Me hitting 6-iron off of the 15th hole and then having 230 yards in, that 230-yard 6-iron into a par-4 is major championship golf, especially with how firm the greens were this week. The greens were literally perfect this week.

So it was just a great mental test out here this week, and really proud of the way I fought through adversity when it came about and proud of the way I stood up on tee boxes and executed my feel and my motion to make that ball go down the middle of the fairway.

It wasn't perfect, but I managed it well, and I got the ball in the hole in the least amount of shots.

Q. How hard was that last chip shot on the playoff hole? Was that a tough shot or --

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: There was definitely an opportunity for me to go right under the ball. It was wet, and I thought it may give a little bit. But luckily enough, there was just enough cushion, and it went through and came off high, and I'm like, okay, that's great. It's perfect. Came off pretty much the way I wanted it to come off. A little right, but I'll take that four-footer any day.

Q. Obviously most of the headlines are about the playoff hole, but for the whole day it dragged on quite a bit, the suspension and everything. How did you manage to keep yourself in contention throughout, and even after dropping the shot on the playoff hole, how did you push yourself through?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: It's about staying present and looking forward for the future. I know that's a weird thing to say, but really about grounding yourself and going, okay, I'm right here and I've got this opportunity in front of me, go execute, go do the best you possibly can. That's all I did today continuously. Throughout the round, even when I was stepping up on the 13th tee box, hitting a 7-iron down the middle of the fairway felt really good. Hit a great next shot, another 7-iron into the 13th hole -- it was a 6-iron off the tee and then a 7-iron in the fairway. I just felt like I was hitting good shot after good shot, and I started getting into a bit of a flow. It's a lot of fun when I get into those because I feel like I can do a lot of fun stuff on the golf course.

Q. When Richard missed the putt, you had your hands on your head. Was it feeling of you didn't want to win that way?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, you never want to win that way. I'll be the first to admit that. But like I've said, it's happened before, and golf is a fickle and uneasy game at a lot of moments.

That's just sometimes the way the cards fall. There's been numerous people that have done that. I don't ever want to be a part of that and feel that because I wanted to go another hole against him.

But I'm grateful that it happened and I'm on the positive end of it. I just didn't like seeing it happen. It's tough to see that.