Bryson DeChambeau says he will focus on his YouTube channel if LIV Golf fails over a potential return to the PGA Tour.
Last week, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced it would be to the breakaway golf league following the conclusion of the 2026 season.
In a statement released on Thursday, the PIF said the "substantial investment required is no longer consistent, with the fund's investment strategy moving forward."
As one of LIV Golf's biggest stars - along with Spain's Jon Rahm, who to pay all of his outstanding fines as part of an agreement to return to play on the circuit - DeChambeau's future is now one of great interest.
"I think, from my perspective, I'd love to grow my YouTube channel three times, maybe even more," DeChambeau said, who has 2.69m subscribers on YouTube, told ESPN.
"I would love to. I'd love to do a bunch of dubbing in different languages, giving the world more reason to watch YouTube. And then I'd love to play tournaments that want me.
"The egos need to get dropped. Everybody needs to come in with a level-headed playing field, with an opportunistic mindset to grow the game of golf. That's why I came over here. That's why I do what I do on YouTube."
Of potential punishments and fines to re-join the PGA Tour, DeChambeau added: "It's quite unfortunate in my opinion, considering what I could do for them."
The 32-year-old also admitted the announcement from Saudi Arabia came as a great surprise to him, especially considering he was led to believe LIV Golf would be financed for another six years until 2032.
"I was completely shocked," DeChambeau said. "I didn't expect it to happen. A couple months before that, it's like: 'We're here until 2032. We've got financing until 2032,' and so I told everybody, and that's what I was told.
"And then, you know, I haven't had any communication. And unfortunately, things are moving on in a different direction. Obviously, they wanted to move on.
"If we have a great business model and they're [PGA Tour, DP World Tour] very interested in combining forces, that's the Kumbaya moment, right?
"So, it's our job to come up with a better business plan on the [top company] side. The team franchises, there's enough making profit now to where we could sell them for close to $200m (£147m), and that's not talking about my team either.
"I think it requires a little bit of everybody kind of just lowering their guards and all coming together and going: 'OK, what's best for the game of golf?'"
DeChambeau won the 2023 US Open, meaning he has an exemption there until 2033. Yet, he is only guaranteed entries to The Masters, The Open and The PGA until 2028.
Speaking to the Your Site Golf Podcast, PGA Tour and DP World Tour player Billy Horschel said:
"If you have a price and that person doesn't agree, and then they come back. That offer is not still on the table; that offer is going to change a bit.
"I would think going forward with those three players, if they do offer something, it's going to be a different offer. I think when it pertains to the other players, I don't think anyone else has PGA Tour Eligibility access. So I don't know what's going to happen. There will be some form of a road for a lot of these guys.
"Some of these guys may not have a road. I don't see a road for Phil Mickelson back to the PGA Tour, even though he's a lifetime member of the PGA Tour and he's done a lot and there is a lot of stuff that he said he did. There were certain things behind the scenes that he said he did and certain things behind the scenes before LIV came out, and I don't think it's going to work out for him. And rightfully, I don't think he wants to even come back to the PGA Tour or even the Champions Tour.
"It's going to be nice that when all this is all said and done, there is not this sort of bickering back-and-forth. I'm all for competition; it breeds a sense that you have to make changes to be better. You have to be innovative, you've got to do things to still be the top dog in professional golf.
"Going forward, it is going to be nice to have the players who want to get back to playing PGA Tour golf, the guys that want to be back playing on the DP World Tour, under one big umbrella, is somewhat harmonious."
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