DP World Tour welcomes LIV rebels like DeChambeau after league collapse.

The DP World Tour is ready to embrace former LIV Golf rebels, including Bryson DeChambeau, after the Saudi-backed league filed for bankruptcy.

LIV Golf began bankruptcy proceedings in a New Jersey court on Thursday, November 5, 2026.

In a 13-minute hearing, LIV's lawyers announced plans to liquidate the league rather than launch a new tour.

The decision came after Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, or PIF, withdrew its funding for next season.

PIF spent more than $7 billion over five years building LIV Golf, a circuit that split professional golf in two.

“The debtors are not currently proceeding with the LIV 2.0 plan,” Matthew Williams of Gibson Dunn said in court.

“Instead, the debtors are toggling to a value-maximising wind-down in their business.”

LIV later released a statement confirming its withdrawal from the sport.

“Since April 2026, the league’s leadership team, with the support of its independent directors and advisors, has run a disciplined and thorough process to identify the best path forward for the company and its stakeholders,” the statement read.

“Despite extensive discussions, the relevant parties were ultimately unable to reach a consensual resolution of certain outstanding terms of the transaction contemplated by the Restructuring Support Agreement (RSA).

“As a result, the RSA has been terminated, and the transaction is not expected to move forward at this time.”

The collapse leaves LIV players facing uncertain futures.

Many of them can now join the DP World Tour through a variety of routes, though returning to the PGA Tour remains difficult.

The PGA Tour has given no indication it will ease its one-year ban on LIV players, which runs from the date of their last appearance in a LIV event.

DeChambeau, a two-time US Open winner, had been due to sign for LIV 2.0 next season.

He recently said LIV's “business plan made a lot of sense” and that the relaunched tour would “last forever.”

Now, the DP World Tour has offered him a free route back to professional golf.

DeChambeau's advisers were informed that, as the winner of the 2024 US Open, he can take up full playing privileges on the European circuit next year.

He is the only LIV player who is not a DP World Tour member with this exemption.

If DeChambeau enlists for 2027, he could earn back his PGA Tour card for 2028 via the Race to Dubai money list.

DeChambeau is ineligible to rejoin the PGA Tour directly.

He has not played on the PGA Tour for more than four years, and a blanket ban on LIV players blocks him for 12 months from his last LIV tournament appearance.

The 33-year-old has never been a member of the DP World Tour.

As a former major winner, he has an option to join that expires next year.

The deadline for applications is November 16, 2026.

Under DP World Tour regulations, major champions have five years to join, with 12 months deducted for every year they do not take up the option.

The major-winner window has already expired for LIV players Cameron Smith and Dustin Johnson.

The DP World Tour will allow them to play in certain events under its new International Schedule, but not as full members.

The welcome for DeChambeau has not been universal.

One cardless DP World Tour pro publicly blasted the LIV defectors getting a free pass back, calling it an “incredible amount of entitlement.”

The player, who has not earned a full tour card, criticized the idea that players who left for Saudi money can simply return without consequences.