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James Colgan
April 23, 2025
Wesley Bryan participated in Liv’s “Dull” event and was suspended from participating in the PGA Tour.
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Pro Golf’s next great court drama will be aired on YouTube.
On Tuesday night, golf YouTube star and PGA Tour Pro Wesley Bryan released a video announcing that he was suspended from the PGA Tour due to his participation in the Liv Golf spin-off of “Creator Classic”. Bryan is part of the Bryanbros YouTube channel, which soared to 559,000 subscribers in Golf’s YouTube Boom, and in early April the PGA Tour was suspended by the PGA Tour’s “Direct Infinity”.
A report by Q Info’s Ryan French first surfaced about Bryan’s suspension last week and reiterated it in a Bryan video on Tuesday.
“I’ve been suspended for the PGA Tour,” he said in a video announcing the news. “It’s been a tough couple of weeks for us, and of course, it’s an emotional roller coaster.”
According to Brian, he was suspended for participating in the “Miami Duel,” a LIV-sponsored match that puts six, two-team content creators and professional golfers against each other. The video is a reaction to the success of the PGA Tour at the so-called Creator Classics, which aired on Grant Horvat’s YouTube channel on April 5th (Saturday of the Liv’s Miami event).
Bryan participated in the event, despite being a card-owned PGA Tour member, apparently under the auspices that the suspension of the Tour collection with the former professionals who violated Liv will be watched separately.
“We had to take this opportunity when we had the opportunity to play five major champions and my five best buds on Grant Horvat’s channel, which was a great content creator,” Brian said in his video. “Because everything we’ve ever done from the Bryan Bros is to merge professionals and YouTube golf, which will be one of the opportunities we’ve always dreamed of since we entered YouTube golf.”
Apparently, the PGA Tour had a different feeling about opportunity, slapping Brian with a “direct and unlimited” suspension because he thought the Tour considered an “unauthorized event.”
(Quick Learning: PGA Tour players are obliged to sign their “exclusive” media rights every year in exchange for tours. Under these rules, the Tour rules prohibit players from participating in unauthorized activities without waivers. Players who violate these rules are suspended.)
“The PGA Tour is considered an unauthorized event,” Brian said. “I think it’s clear that I do respect the authorities already in place in the PGA Tour, but because of the ambiguity of the rules and regulations written, I do have the right to appeal their decisions as a member of the PGA Tour and I intend to act.”
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Bryan’s announcement marks a little candidness in professional golf punishing the world. There is no comment on discipline issues in the history of the PGA Tour, and players are generally reluctant to disclose the source of their suspensions and fines. However, Bryan is an equivalent part of investing in golf and golf content creation. Although he was suspended from the former, it makes sense that he would lean toward the latter, and in the tourism war center of golf, the suspension story especially caused viral content.
This helps his argument revolve around one of the best regulations for a tour: unauthorized rules of events. This rule was created to merge the individual forces of PGA Tour Players into a single package that the network can bid for. If the tour could sell its players’ “exclusive” broadcast network rights, it could get bigger payments and avoid that kind of broken competitive landscape that defines much of the history of golf before 1980. It’s a win-win game in theory: players will make more money from a unified product, and this tour will gain more power in the world of golf.
However, over the years, some players have started to be upset with the rules of the tour, believing they have their own media rights and saying the tour is too broad to define “exclusiveness”, with no competition for everything from historical highlights to players’ rights to live TV.
Brian said his appeal would be based on that argument. In Bryan’s view, unauthorized event rules are designed to ensure that PGA Tour players do not show up Television broadcast,,,,, Pay The golf competition is played outside the PGA Tour. Even on the same day of another PGA Tour (Valero Dexas Open Round 3), YouTube golf videos couldn’t be resolved under that definition, even if it was released on the same day, supporting the biggest competitive threat to this tour, Liv.
In Bryan’s opinion, he has been posting YouTube content similar to the “duel” format for many years, and the PGA Tour has no objection. How do YouTube videos compete with LIV stars for the same disciplined bills as salary in LIV events?
In the tour’s perspective, the answer to Bryan’s question is simple: he participated in photography of an unauthorized competitor tour, an unauthorized golf game without permission. ergohe was suspended.
“I don’t feel like when the rules are written, it’s about covering content creation on YouTube,” Brian said. “I feel like it’s about covering organized professional senior golf competitions. That being said, I plan to fulfill my appeal.”
The Tour Appeal Board will soon decide which side is wrong.
James Colgan
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James Colgan is Golf news and writes stories for websites and magazines. He manages the media verticals of popular microphones, golf, and leverages his camera experience on the brand platform. Before joining golf, James graduated from Syracuse University, during which time he was a caddie scholarship recipient (and Astute looper) from Long Island, where he came from. He can be contacted at james.colgan@golf.com.
