CARROLLTON — LIV Golf Dallas’ poster boy and Grapevine resident Bryson DeChambeau gave out fist bumps as he exited his 15th hole to cheers at 4 p.m Sunday. A smile crossed his face after passing the last fan.
One of the boys he fist bumped was wearing an SMU shirt. DeChambeau, who won the NCAA Division I national championship in 2015 for the Mustangs, turned around and gave the boy a thumbs up before telling him “pony up.”
DeChambeau finished LIV Golf Dallas 3-under-par and tied for ninth, but that would have been hard to guess with the way he interacted with fans at Maridoe Golf Club. He thanked everyone at the last hole and then moved to sign hats and take selfies with as many fans as he could.
“Dallas showed up and this is what I expected,” DeChambeau, who captained the winning Crushers GC team, said Sunday. “This is what I thought was possible and our team showed up. I just got to say that I’m super thankful to Dallas and super thankful to the team for playing as well as they did.”
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DeChambeau was tied for 15th and nine shots behind the morning’s leader and tournament champion Patrick Reed going into Day 3 of the LIV Golf Dallas tournament. Nonetheless, fans flocked to the fifth tee at noon to watch DeChambeau tee off for the shotgun start.
DeChambeau, who finished 13th after Day 1, was a big part of LIV Golf’s marketing for their second time hosting in Dallas. The SMU grad was on billboards around the D-FW area promoting the weekend at Maridoe.
“I want to showcase this great golf course and what LIV product is all about, the team competition about it, how diabolical it can be and how difficult it can be to win not only an individual title out here but a Team Championship title out here,” DeChambeau said in a news conference Thursday about the responsibility he felt to promote this tournament.
Less than two weeks before the tournament, DeChambeau went out to Interstate 635 with a cardboard sign that read “Come to my tournament.” At one point he even ended up on top of a scaffolding next to the freeway signs.
The fans, including the 3 million followers he has on Instagram, listened. He had a crowd at every hole this weekend, even as the temperature reached the upper-90s. Saturday’s crowd of 20,000 fans broke the single-day record for most fans at a LIV Golf event in the United States.
DeChambeau made sure to acknowledge his fans every step of the way. After finishing even par for the second day in a row on Saturday, DeChambeau showed up to the Whiskey Myers concert Maridoe Golf Club hosted as a part of the LIV Golf Dallas festivities.
“My face was on a billboard this week trying to get people out here and they definitely showed up and I wanted to show my respect and appreciation for them coming to this tournament especially in the heat,” DeChambeau said of his moment on stage Saturday night. “It was not easy to come out here and have fun and enjoy this massive heat wave, but they did it and they showed up.”
The two-time U.S. Open Champion told the crowd he loved them twice and promised them that Sunday night would be even better, before throwing his hat into the sea of fans.
He was right about Sunday. For the first day in the three day tournament, DeChambeau finished under-par. His team, Crushers GC, finished first for the third tournament in a row.
“Big thanks to Dallas and Bryson [DeChambeau] for the amount of effort he’s put in,” DeChambeau’s Crushers GC teammate Anirban Lahiri said Sunday. “I’m really curious to know what the merchandise sales were for the Crushers because you could see so many hats and shirts and that’s what this league’s about.”
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The first two days of the 2026 NFL Draft are officially in the book. So far the Dallas Cowboys have been busy.
They made two trades in the first round, moving up and then down, and ultimately came away with Caleb Downs and Malachi Lawrence. Early in the second round they dealt a fifth-round pick to acquire veteran linebacker Dee Winters, and then they took Jaishawn Barham in the third round.
These are important moves as things relate to the upcoming season for the Cowboys, but there is still work to do.
As things stand the Cowboys have four selections to play with on Day 3. They have two extra fourth-rounders that the Eagles gave them when Dallas moved down from 20 to 23 overall, and they have dealt away all of the three fifth-round picks that they began the draft with. Two were spent to move up from 12 to 11 to select Caleb Downs and the other was swapped for Dee Winters.
How do you feel about the Day 3 ammunition? The Cowboys are going to be quite busy early in the fourth round and that is going to be the serious bulk of what they do barring any other trade down the road.
The latest FC Dallas injury report is out ahead of their match against the Seattle Sounders. See who is out, who is questionable, and who will be missing for the hosts.
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On Loan: Tsiki Ntsabeleng (Mamelodi Sundowns FC), Enes Sali (Al-Riyadh), Malachi Molina (Nashville SC), Geovane Jesus (North Texas SC), Enzo Newman (North Texas SC)
Unavailable (off-roster): Daniel Baran, Jaidyn Contreras
International Duty: none
Suspended: none
Out: Yeimar Gómez Andrade (hamstring), Paul Arriola (adductor), Pedro de la Vega (knee), Nikola Petkovic (knee), Cristian Roldan (head)
Questionable: Kim Kee-hee (calf), Albert Rusnak (hamstring), Ryan Sailor (knee)
International duty: none
This being the third game in seven days for FC Dallas, rotation was likely always going to be part of the story going into Seattle. Now layer in the injuries, and it becomes a requirement.
The big ones are on the questionable side with both Petar Musa and Logan Farrington coming in on the questionable side of things. Following the Minnesota game on Wednesday night, it did appear that Musa was carrying an injury of sorts when he exited the game in the second half. Head coach Eric Quill couldn’t fully comment on his status after the game, but seeing him land on the questionable side is what I was expecting.
Farrington on the other hand, that one is a bit of a surprise. It will be interesting to see if Quill opts to hold both players out and go with a different look up top this weekend from the jump, or if he rotates a bit more with his lineup.
My gut tells me we may see an attacking trio tomorrow night of Santiago Moreno, Joaquin Valiente and Patrickson Delgado. Which would be…wild.
Seattle on the other side, they’re dealing with several big injuries for this weekend. Cristian Roldan, Paul Arriola, and Yeimar being out is a bit of a surprise, though there were reports that Arriola was not in training this week.
Injury news changes everything heading into Matchday. Members get the full tactical breakdown of how FC Dallas adapts to the various injuries.
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