LIV GOLF KOREA

May 31, 2026

Bryson DeChambeau

Charles Howell

Anirban Lahiri

Travis Smyth

Asiad Country Club

Crushers GC

Press Conference

THE MODERATOR: Let's welcome to the media center, team champions of LIV Golf Korea 2026 Crushers GC. Congratulations. Well played.

Q. Guys, this is your 10th regular season title. Nobody has won more. You're winning at a basically 20 percent clip. How do you process that in a sport that's so individual?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: I don't even know how to process that. I don't even know what it means we're the first to really do it. All I know is I'm grateful for the guys I have here, grateful for Travis and what he was able to do and come in and play as well as he did.

Then I'd also say that I also feel for Paul right now, his wrist injury. Wish he was here, but we have a great man on hand here that took care of the job.

How do I process it? Just grateful, super grateful that I've got amazing guys, an amazing team. We all click in different ways, but we all work to make our team the best out here.

Q. Baan, when you joined, did you think a few years later you guys would be raising 10 trophies?

ANIRBAN LAHIRI: I mean, I hoped so, but I don't think anybody expects anything. Nothing is given out here. You have to earn every single one of them.

We've had our own share of heartbreaks along the way where we should have won and we've come up short, whether it's individual or team milestones. Like Bryson said, every time you end up on top of the podium at the end of the week, whether you individually have done great or not, you're full of gratitude and just happy that you're a part of this journey and you want more of it, which is why I think we turn up every week wanting to be the best versions of ourselves, for ourselves and for the Crushers.

Q. Charles, how have you elevated your celebration with all this experience of winning team titles?

CHARLES HOWELL III: Well, I think they started out fairly flat-lined and have stayed there.

Listen, it's really fun to win as a team. It's a different kind of pressure when you're out there playing. I can quite easily disappoint myself, but I don't want to disappoint these guys around me. Man, it's different. It's one of the really, really cool things about LIV Golf.

Man, the week that Travis had, shooting those scores around this golf course, because you feel it. When you're playing for a team and you're up there at the top and you're wanting to win, it's just one of the really, really cool things about LIV Golf, and it happens every week.

Q. Travis, you're only the second reserve player to celebrate a trophy out here. What was the week like for you?

TRAVIS SMYTH: It was wild. I was back in Sydney over the weekend hanging with some friends, celebrating, a bit of a party sort of weekend, which I don't normally do, so I was quite hungover. I got the call that I'd be reserve on Sunday and I was like, all right, sweet, I'll get on a flight as soon as I can.

Came in Tuesday, got up really early Wednesday to play nine holes in a pro-am in the rain and kind of passed by Bryson and he was like, hey, man, we're choosing you this week. I kind of thought that he meant he's choosing me as the fill-in guy if someone pulls out. I hadn't heard that Paul had hurt his wrist.

I felt bad for about two and a half hours because I wasn't quite sure if I was actually playing and the fact that I may have just brushed Bryson when he told me that I'm in.

It's just been a whirlwind of a week. I felt extremely nervous, just like Charles was saying. He still feels it; imagine how I felt. I didn't want to be the fill-in guy that disappoints the team and stops them from standing on the podium. I'm over the moon. I'm super proud of myself, super proud of these guys, and couldn't have asked for a better first week.

But actually, I was one of the founding fathers of the Crushers when LIV first started. Peter Uihlein was the captain and we came second then as a team, and we came first this week. So I don't know. There's something to that.

Q. What was the vibe like in the team room? Obviously a big impact in the hair style department this week.

TRAVIS SMYTH: Thank you.

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: How long is it now?

TRAVIS SMYTH: It's got to be almost nipples (lets hair down).

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Oh, my God. Goldilocks over here.

ANIRBAN LAHIRI: I think to answer your question, it was business as usual. I think it helps to play hard golf courses. I think we've said that in the past. It's good to see a golf course that stands up to this field, and just not having 7,600 or 7,700 yards, it doesn't give up a winning score of 20-under or more, which has been the case.

I think as a team, we're all grinders, and Travis has just joined us, and he's done exactly that. Every day we've come in, and as well as he's played, he'll say it was a grind. I think that's what we do better than most teams out here is just grind it out. Every time we get a tough golf course, I think it suits us, and heads down and do what we need to do. That was pretty much it.

Q. Bryson, you started out the week 6-under through your first 10 holes and then you kind of flat-lined for a couple of rounds --

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, I went out to never-neverland.

Q. How would you process the week?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: Yeah, the beginning of the first round I felt great. Golf swing felt in sync and then it started getting out of sync and it felt like my hands were getting ahead of me. It continued that way for the next two rounds, and it was very frustrating.

I spent some long hours on the range trying to figure some stuff out and I was talking to AI quite a bit last night trying to go through some different physics principles that makes the club turn over, having some alpha torque and gamma torque put in there. I was like, what makes that possibly do that, and was talking about just grip pressure and tension.

So I came out here today with just a little bit more freer hands, and I felt the club a lot better, and I felt like I could close the club a lot more effectively and then I started striping it.

From then on out, I was able to kind of control it. Still missed some wedges to the right coming in, which is kind of frustrating, but that's just me holding on a little bit rather than just letting it go.

I feel like I'm on the right path now, and I had it okay in the first round, but really felt it -- I felt really good this round. I felt better than I did in the first round, which is a good trend.

Hopefully it continues, and I'm just continuing to learn. That's the thing; this game is so brutal. Missing two cuts at the majors and you feel like you're golden going in there, won a couple events and playing well, and this game can kick you when you're at your highest.

It goes for all of us, not just me. It's everybody here. Everybody wants to win.

I think that's the beautiful part about golf is that it can kick you when you're at your highest or it can bring you up when you're at your lowest, and yet we have to respect the game for that.

So I felt great. Didn't feel great in the middle of the tournament, but then the last round today I felt a lot better.

I'm proud of the way I persevered to finish third without really anything.

Q. Bryson, our reporter actually found you on the practice range last night about 7:30 until 8:00, so after it was dark. What were you doing then? Were you talking to your AI then and also practicing?

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU: I was slamming the club in the ground trying to figure out what to do. I was frustrated. Been trying everything in my body. I didn't actually figure it out on the range. I went back and started talking to Gemini and trying to figure out just what it could be to passively make the club turn over. Hands just felt like they were moving forward like this and I couldn't get the club to turn over. Even if I tried to stop it here, it still wouldn't turn over.

So I left kind of frustrated and learned later that night that I just needed to relax my grip pressure and let the thing just fold over naturally.

I'm still working it out. I don't have the answer.