LIV Golf’s 2025 season opener is coming next week in Saudi Arabia, but Bryson DeChambeau and a few of his Crushers GC teammates are getting tournament reps in this week.
DeChambeau, Paul Casey and Anirban Lahiri are playing in the Asian Tour’s International Series India at DLF Golf and Country Club. It’s the first time DeChambeau has been to India, and it’s a trip he has teased since after his U.S. Open win last year.
“The ability for golf – as really a young sport but changing from an older sport into a young sport, is to showcase what golf can mean for the future generations of India,” DeChambeau said in his pre-tournament news conference. “That’s always inspired me. My mission in the game of golf is to first off, inspire, entertain, and a subtle part of it is educate as well.
“Educate, entertain, inspire are my main three principles of why I play the game of golf. I think this is an amazing opportunity for all of golf to come together and see what India can truly produce for the world. And it’s a growing economy, it’s a growing population that need golf. There’s a lot more to come, so that’s why I’m here.”
DeChambeau visited the Taj Mahal on Tuesday, and he’ll tee it up Thursday alongside fellow LIV Golf player Joaquin Niemann and John Catlin in the first round.
There’s a purse of $2 million at the first International Series event of the year.
“It’s a diabolical course,” DeChambeau said. “There’s a lot going on and I think the person that’s going to do well this week has to see it for what it is, which is a strategic golf course. You have to plot your way around, be very methodical and you can’t overpower it. You’ve got to be very technical here.”
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