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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Photos by Allison McLean
According to the Chinese New Year, 2025 was the year of the snake, and Dallas shed more than its fair share of restaurants and bars.
We actually started off on a high note with the closure of Salt Bae’s restaurant, Nusr-Et, which had the audacity to charge upwards of $1,000 for a steak.
After that, local favorites started dropping like flies. Many leases seemed to come to an end with an increase in demand for space sending rent skyrocketing. Along with rising food costs, local restaurants are taking a hit.
It’s not all bad, though. Peppered into the mix are some restaurants and bars in Dallas that closed, but were remodeled and reimagined into new concepts. Others are looking for new spaces with lower rent. The rest, however, are gone for good.
The beginning of this year will likely be no better than the last, and it’s as good a time as ever to get out and support your favorite local spots. Money tight? We know where to go.
These are all the Dallas restaurants that closed in 2025.
Dallas Mavericks star big man Anthony Davis might be facing season-ending left hand surgery after being injured in Thursday night’s game against the Utah Jazz, ESPN reported on Friday.
Davis reportedly underwent an MRI exam on Friday that showed ligament damage in the hand. Davis reportedly will seek a second opinion to see if surgery is needed.
ESPN reported Davis would miss at least six weeks if surgery is avoided.
Davis was injured with 2:52 left in the 116-114 loss while defending Utah star Lauri Markkanen on a drive to the basket. Davis was in obvious pain after the play and left the contest with 2:08 remaining after he was holding the hand and unable to defend Markkanen’s next basket.
The timing of the injury could affect Dallas’ trade plans. The club reportedly planned to shop Davis prior to the 5 February trade deadline.
Davis hasn’t even been with the Mavericks for a year yet. He came over in the controversial and disastrous deal in which star Luka Dončić was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Davis, who turns 33 in March, is making $54.1m this season. He is due to make $58.5m next season and has a player option for $62.8m in 2027-28.
Davis has played in just 29 games for the Mavericks – nine last season and 20 this season.
He is averaging 20.4 points, 11.1 rebounds and 1.7 blocked shots this season. He is a 10-time All-Star.
Dallas Police Central Business District officers recovered 39 bags of crack cocaine during an arrest Tuesday.
The officers, working with the U.S. Marshal’s North Texas Fugitive Task Force, seized the drugs when they arrested 40-year-old Velisa Purvis, who was wanted on four outstanding felony warrants.
Officers spotted Purvis in the 1500 block of Garrett Avenue near Old East Dallas and took her into custody.
In addition to the cocaine, officers recovered two bags of suspected methamphetamine, drug packaging, money and marijuana.
She now faces additional charges of manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance between four grams and 200 grams and manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance between one and four grams for the crack cocaine, methamphetamine, currency, and individual packages with the intent to distribute.
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