The dust may be settling on what was an incredibly dramatic week for LIV Golf, but questions over the league’s future continue to be asked.

While LIV attempted to carry on as normal at their latest event in Mexico City, there was the largest of elephants in the room amid reports that the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia will stop supporting the league from the end of the 2026 season.

There has since been plenty of debate over what the future holds for the likes of Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm, the league’s biggest two names.

It seems that Bryson DeChambeau is already considering his next move.

The Athletic reported that DeChambeau and his team held talks with officials from the PGA Tour during The Masters in which he was looking to learn what it would take to return.

The report did not suggest in any way that DeChambeau had made his mind up to come back. Nevertheless, the likes of Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood took to social media to dismiss the story, insisting that it was not credible.

The problem is that neither response does LIV Golf any favours whatsoever.

Ever since LIV started up, there has been a bizarre dynamic among the players when it comes to how they have handled the media.

Questions that paint LIV in a positive light were embraced, and subsequently held up as a strange example of the league being vindicated. Difficult questions have largely been dismissed, regardless of how justified they are.

Few on the outside, however, seem to have ever bought into the idea that LIV is some sort of underdog trying to change the game.

Instead, it is a league that has seen its progress stagnate and appears to now be in real danger of disappearing altogether in the coming years.

With that, DeChambeau would be completely foolish not to look at all of his options.

The Telegraph reported earlier this year that the two-time US Open champion is holding out for $500 million before signing a new contract with the league.

If the PIF withdraw their support, it is hard to imagine that there is any way that DeChambeau will get the terms he is looking for by staying with LIV.

Brian Rolapp insisted that there were no guarantees that those who did not take up the offer to follow Brooks Koepka earlier this year would have another opportunity.

So it would be ridiculous if DeChambeau did not try and establish what returning to the PGA Tour would look like.

As reported by Golf Monthly in 2022, Westwood said players would be ‘daft’ not to listen to those starting up what would become LIV Golf.

Surely, DeChambeau is in a similar boat this time around. There are serious doubts over LIV’s future. And if his contract expires this year, he would be naive to just sign an extension without exploring his options.

That would be the case even if he was simply planning to use the PGA Tour as a bargaining tool in talks with LIV.

So it does appear to be a further example of certain LIV players refusing to see anything negative about the league emerge into the public domain.