Unhappy Bryson DeChambeau encounters issue on driving range at LIV Golf Michigan

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Bryson DeChambeau and his Crushers team are bidding to win the LIV Golf Michigan Team Championship this week at The Cardinal at Saint John’s.

DeChambeau won once on LIV this season, but he will be disappointed with the fact that he wasn’t even in contention to win the Individual Championship in Indianapolis last week.

The 31-year-old will also be unhappy with the fact that he didn’t win a major, despite recording three top-10 finishes in the four biggest tournaments in the game.

However, he did make the Ryder Cup team due to his outstanding performances at the majors over the past 16 months.

Many golf fans are calling for the PGA Tour to offer DeChambeau an exemption to play in the Procore Championship in Napa next month, with all of the US Ryder Cup team set to play the event.

He is a member of LIV Golf, and he would have known that his move to the Saudi-backed league came with consequences.

DeChambeau is said to have some exciting plans for his Crushers team on LIV, so he’s clearly very much behind the idea of the golf league.

However, he apparently wasn’t happy one little bit after an issue that he encountered on the driving range before the start of the Team Championship in Michigan on Thursday.

Bryson DeChambeau has an issue on the driving range at LIV Golf Michigan

DeChambeau will be desperate to finish his season on a high note.

A win for his Crushers team in Michigan would certainly be a very pleasing way for him to end 2025, with the Ryder Cup quickly approaching.

However, DeChambeau seemed to be slightly perturbed on Thursday on the driving range at The Cardinal at Saint John’s.

Red Harrington took to his X account to provide an update on how DeChambeau is feeling ahead of LIV’s Team Championship this weekend.

He said: “Bryson is out late on the range getting some work in…he’s unsatisfied by the condition of the range balls so now he is using balls fresh out the box. The range here is synthetic and my working theory is they are getting scuffed by landing on what’s probably a firm underlayment.“

When range balls aren’t in pristine condition, it makes a huge difference for the very best players in the world, because the real-time feedback they are getting from their flight-tracing systems may not actually be correct.

Bryson DeChambeau’s 2025 season breakdown

DeChambeau will look back at his 2025 season with mixed emotions.

He did at least record one victory, but that is simply not enough for a player of the American’s calibre.

Here are his results from 2025 in full on LIV and in the four majors:

Most professional golfers would be delighted with those results, but not DeChambeau.

However, if DeChambeau ends his season by playing a key role for the US Ryder Cup team, helping guide them to victory over Europe, then he might just have to reclassify 2025 as a successful year.