PGA Tour suspends Wesley Bryan for participating in LIV-backed event

The PGA Tour suspended Wesley Bryan for participating in a LIV Golf-backed event two weeks ago.

Tour officials have not commented, though Bryan told golf website Monday Q, which first reported the suspension, that he wasn’t informed how long the ban would last, and indicated he would follow the tour’s appeals process.

Bryan, 35, is attending but not competing this week in the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Championship in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, where he finished second last year to Billy Horschel. It is on the schedule opposite the RBC Heritage, which Bryan won in 2017 in his native South Carolina for his lone PGA Tour victory.

Bryan, who no longer has full tour status, has played three events in 2025, one as recently as March. He tied for 25th at the Farmers Insurance Open in January and has since missed two cuts.

Bryan is 169th in the FedExCup standings (31 points) with $75,068 in official earnings this season.

He and his brother, George, have become popular for creating content on a YouTube channel, with videos featuring trick shots. Wesley Bryan participated in two PGA Tour influencer events in the past year, including in March, Golf Digest reported.

The Bryan brothers competed in a similar event run by LIV Golf at Doral — called “The Duels: Miami” — the week before the Masters. George Bryan and partner Sergio Garcia won the nine-hole scramble on the first playoff hole.

The event, featuring six LIV golfers and six YouTube creators, had a $250,000 purse and was streamed on Grant Horvat’s YouTube channel.

All of the creators were informed through a third party there could be disciplinary action from the PGA Tour, according to the Monday Q report. Only Wesley Bryan was suspended, per the report, on the day after The Duels went live on Horvat’s channel.

Bryan told Monday Q he doesn’t regret playing in The Duels.

“That video is one of the most powerful videos in YouTube golf,” Bryan said. “We are going to continue to support Grant and grow the game through YouTube.”

He also expressed gratitude for his PGA Tour career.

“For the last eight or nine years, the opportunities have been amazing,” Bryan said. “I’m extremely grateful to the Tour for that. I don’t want this to be the end of my professional golf career.”

Bryan has made 68 cuts in 134 career PGA Tour events, with five top-five finishes and nine top-10 finishes.

Bryan, who played at the University of South Carolina, turned pro in 2012 and joined the PGA Tour in 2017. He has earned $5,247,630 in prize money.

Field Level Media contributed to this report.