Bryson DeChambeau continues to sing the praises of LIV Golf. In doing so, he also whipped out an analogy about pizza that made it sound like he doesn’t know much about pizza shops.
In an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that took place at Donald Trump’s Bedminster, N.J., course that aired Tuesday night, DeChambeau expressed confidence the rift between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf could eventually be worked out.
Currently, the PGA Tour has suspended its players who have made the leap to LIV.
Bryson DeChambeauJUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock“It’s so weird, because it’s like — let’s use this as a reference,” the 28-year-old DeChambeau said. “I heard this earlier this week. You have a pizza shop that’s been in existence for 50 years. And all the customers go to it and it’s a great product. All of a sudden, a new pizza shop opens up, right? And they start paying the customers to come eat at their place, and that pizza is potentially a little bit better of a pizza, right? And then, all of a sudden, that original pizza house goes, if you go over there, we’re banning you from ever coming back to our pizza shop. What’s wrong with that economic model?”
While it would be great to get paid to eat pizza, it’s hard to imagine a situation where a small business — not one backed by billions of dollars, as LIV is with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund bankrolling it — would be able to pay people to eat its food or ban someone from eating its food.
Meanwhile, with the PGA Tour and LIV at odds with one another, players will continue to be left to choose which piece of the pie they’d prefer.
