PGA Tour suspends Wesley Bryan for playing in LIV Golf-backed event

The PGA Tour has suspended Wesley Bryan for playing in a LIV Golf-backed event, he told Monday Q. The event in question took place in Miami earlier this month.

Bryan participated in a YouTube match called “The Duels: Miami” filmed at the Miami LIV event, which ran April 4-6. One day after the event was posted on Grant Horvat’s YouTube channel, the PGA Tour suspended Bryan, although the tour has yet to publicly comment on the situation.

According to Monday Q, the creators who participated in the event were told through a third party that there could be potential discipline coming from the PGA Tour. That includes exclusion from tour events and content. Bryan was the only one the tour suspended, according to the report, although he also indicated he would go through the tour’s appeals process regarding his ban.

In the meantime, Bryan is in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic for this week’s Corales Puntacana Championship even though he’s not playing. That said, he told Monday Q he doesn’t regret participating in “The Duels: Miami” despite his suspension.

“That video is one of the most powerful videos in YouTube golf,” Bryan said. “We are going to continue to support Grant and grow the game through YouTube.”

Wesley Bryan – a former golfer at South Carolina – turned professional in 2012 and officially joined the PGA Tour in 2017. That same year, he got his lone win on the tour at the RBC Heritage. He doesn’t have full tour status anymore, but finished tied for 25th in January’s Farmers Insurance Open.

The relationship between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf has been a tense one since LIV’s launch in 2021. Since then, the Tour saw multiple defections to the Saudi-backed league and saw members face suspensions for playing in LIV events. Under the current rule, players will face a one-year suspension from their last LIV event until they can return to the PGA Tour, according to Golf Digest.

Meanwhile, the two sides – the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund, which backs LIV Golf – engaged in talks to reunify professional golf. However, talks broke down, and the PGA Tour ultimately rejected a proposal that included naming PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan co-chairman of the PGA Tour Enterprises board. The offer would have injected more than $1 billion into PGA Tour enterprises.