{"id":1551245,"date":"2022-07-12T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551245"},"modified":"2022-07-12T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T21:50:08","slug":"golf-dechambeau-and-bridgestone-part-ways-after-move-to-liv-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/golf-dechambeau-and-bridgestone-part-ways-after-move-to-liv-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-DeChambeau and Bridgestone part ways after move to LIV Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgolf-dechambeau-and-bridgestone-part-ways-after-move-to-liv-golf%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551245&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>(Reuters) \u2013     Bryson DeChambeau and Bridgestone Golf have agreed to end their brand ambassador partnership following the former major champion\u2019s decision to join the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series, the company said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau, who is among the game\u2019s more high-profile players and one of the longest hitters the sport has ever seen, joined LIV last month, resulting in his suspension from the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PGA Tour is an extremely important part of professional golf, and Bridgestone has a sports marketing relationship with this highly visible series of tournaments,\u201d Bridgestone Golf said in a statement obtained by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn considering that Bryson DeChambeau will no longer be participating in these events, Bridgestone and Bryson haveagreed to end their brand ambassador partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes two days before DeChambeau, an eight-time winner on the PGA Tour, tees off in the British Open at St Andrews where he will seek a second major triumph to go along with his 2020 U.S. Open victory.<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau joined Bridgestone, which has been a long-time tournament sponsor of the PGA Tour, ahead of his professional debut in April 2016 and one week after he finished as the low amateur at that year\u2019s Masters.<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau had initially distanced himself from LIV Golf, saying only a week prior to the breakaway circuit announcing his arrival, that jumping ship at this stage of his career was too much of a risk.<\/p>\n<p>But he ultimately became the latest big-name player to make the move and made his debut two weeks ago in Portland, Oregon, where he finished in 10th place in a 48-man field and 11 shots back of the winner.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Toby Davis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2725520\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6B0ZU-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI6B0ZU-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Bryson DeChambeau and Bridgestone Golf have agreed to end their brand ambassador partnership following the former major champion\u2019s decision to join the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}