Despite Trailing Far Behind Brooks Koepka’s $11M Riches, Bryson DeChambeau Has Last Laugh Over Ex-Nemesis

Brooks Koepka’s 2024 season was filled with many ups and downs. In the past 12 events of LIV Golf, the 5-time major winner carded only five top finishes, which included two victories. Once in Singapore and recently at the Old White Course in Greenbrier. These illustrious wins make Koepka the first pro on the breakaway circuit to garner five victories. Pretty decent record, right?

Moreover, courtesy of the 12 events and two wins, the 34-year-old has bagged $11.038 million in LIV Golf’s 2024 season so far and has been ranked 4th on the current money list, as per Golf Monthly’s reports. On the other hand, the fan-favorite golfer, the man of the people, Bryson DeChambeau, couldn’t win any events on LIV Golf this year. Thus, he earned $5.477 million to be 15th on the list. Hence, in the Saudi-funded league, Koepka had a better season and outnumbered the Scientist; but there is one thing in which the 30-year-old reigned and Koepka failed.

That is the majors and Koepka’s performance in them. The 5-time major winner won the PGA Championship in 2023, but in the current season, he was T26 at the PGA Championship and the US Open, T45 at the Masters, and finished the major runs after posting T43 at the Open. In contrast, DeChambeau won the US Open for the second time after his astonishing performance at Pinehurst, was second at the PGA Championship by just 1 stroke, and T6 at the Masters. The only blot was the Open Championship, where he unfortunately missed the cut.

The comparison is interesting because, at one point, the two were archrivals. It all started with Koepka calling out the slow play by long hitters, particularly DeChambeau, during the 2019 Dubai Desert Classic. After which, the 2-time US Open winner confronted his then-nemesis’s caddie and later ridiculed him about not having abs on a Twitch stream. In response, Koepka did something quirky.

He posted an image of his four major trophies on X and threw shade at DeChambeau, who at that time just had one major win. Koepka wrote, “You were right @b_dechambeau I am 2 short of a 6 pack!” Everything between the two is sorted now, as after DeChambeau’s 2024 US Open win, Koepka welcomed him to the club of 2x US Open winners. Four years ago, Koepka had the upper hand, but this time it was DeChambeau.