Wesley Bryan participated in Liv’s “duels” event and was suspended by PGA Tour.
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The other great drama of the Pro Golf Court will be broadcast on YouTube.
Tuesday evening, Golf YouTube Star and PGA Tour Pro Wesley Bryan Released a video Announcing that he had been suspended by PGA Tour to participate in a Creator Classic’s Liv Golf spinof. Bryan, part of the YouTube Bryanbros Canal that has grown to 559,000 subscribers at the YouTube Golf boom, served one “immediate and indefinite“PGA Tour’s suspension of participating in a creative match of players’ content in Liv Miami in early April.
News of Bryan’s suspension first appeared in a report from French Ryan of Monday Q Information Last week, and was repeated in Bryan’s video on Tuesday.
“I’m suspended from PGA Tour,” he said in the video announcing the news. “There have been a few difficult weeks for us. It has probably been an emotional rotor.”
According to Bryan, he was suspended to compete in “Miami Duels”, a Liv-sponsored competition, setting six, teams with two men of content creators and players in favor against each other. The video, which was a reaction to the success of PGA Tour with the so -called Creator Classic, aired on the YouTube channel of Grant Horvat on April 5, on Saturday of Liv’s Miami Event.
Bryan participated in the event despite serving as a PGA Tour member holding with letters, apparently under the care that such a appearance would be seen separately from the suspensions that the tournament against former goods defecting in Liv.
“When we got the opportunity to play on the grant Horvat channel with five big champions and five of my best loops that happen to be creative content, we had to jump into that opportunity,” Bryan said in his video. “Because everything we have ever wanted to do from Bryan Bros is to unite professional golf and youtube, and that would be one of those opportunities we have dreamed of since getting into YouTube golf.”
Apparently, the PGA Tour felt different about the opportunity, hitting Bryan with an immediate and indefinite suspension “to compete in what the tour was considered” unauthorized event “.
(A quick refresh: PGA Tour players are forced to sign away “Exclusive” media rights Yeardo year in tour in exchange for tours membership. According to these rules, the tournament stipulates that players are forbidden to participate in the events of the inaccession without giving up. Players who violate these rules have been suspended.)
“Duels Miami was awarded an unauthorized event by PGA Tour,” Bryan said. “I want to be clear, I respect that the authorities were created in PGA Tour, but because of the uncertainty of the rules and regulations that are written, I, as a member of PGA Tour, have the right to appeal their decision, which I plan to exercise.”
Bryan’s announcement marks an unusual candy from the Pro Golf penalty world. PGA Tour historically does not comment on disciplinary issues, and players are usually upset to discover the source of their suspensions and penalties. Bryan, however, is an equal part of invested in creating pro -golf and golf content. As he has been suspended from the first, it makes sense that he will bow to the latter, where the story of a suspension at the center of the golf tourist wars is particularly viral.
It helps his argument to focus on one of the most arc regulations of the tournament: the rules of unauthorized events. The rule was created to consolidate the individual power of PGA Tour players in a single package that networks could offer. If the tournament can sell the “exclusive” transmission rights of its players on the networks, it could get larger amounts, and avoid the type of rugged competitive landscape that had defined most of the golf history before 1980. In theory, it was a win: players would earn more money from a unified product, and the tournament would have the tour.
However, over the years, some players came Give the tour request For this rule, believing that they were better served by possessing their media rights – and believing that the tournament for the “exclusivity” was too wide, exercising control over everything, from the historic highlights to the direct TV rights of the players over the weeks that they were not competing with.
Bryan said his appeal would be based on this argument. In Bryan’s opinion, the unauthorized rule of events aims to ensure that PGA Tour does not appear in television, paid Golf competitions operated outside PGA Tour. A video broadcast on YouTube Golf does not regulate that definition, even if it was posted on the same day as another PGA Tour event (the third round of Valero Texas Open) that supports the biggest competitive threat of tournament, Liv.
In Bryan’s opinion, he posted content on YouTube similar to the “duels” format without any opposition from PGA Tour for years. How does a video on YouTube fit along with Liv Stars under the same -disciplinary bill as competition for a check in a liv event?
In the opinion of the tour, the answer to Bryan’s question is simple: he competed in a video competition, unannounced golf by supporting a rival tour without getting permission to do so. ErgoHe has been suspended.
“I don’t feel like when the rule was written was meant to cover the creation of content on YouTube,” Bryan said. “I feel like it was meant to cover organized high -level professional events. With this it was said, I plan to make my right to an appeal.”
The tour complaints committee will soon decide which side is in error.
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