Wesley Bryan got suspended from the PGA for participating in a 9-hole scramble on a YouTube golf channel where LIV and YouTube golfers competed. He didn't sign with LIV, didn't get paid millions like actual LIV players – he just played in a fun YouTube event.
Meanwhile, the PGA let actual LIV golfers like Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed back on tour after they took huge contracts and played for LIV for years. Wesley never even played for LIV, yet he's still suspended while they're back competing.
I started a petition asking the PGA to lift Wesley's suspension without penalties. The punishment doesn't fit what he actually did – at most this deserved a warning and clearer rules about these events.
Anyone else think this is getting way out of hand? A YouTube golf event shouldn't end someone's PGA career when actual LIV players are already back on tour. If this seems unfair to you too, consider signing and sharing.
by sbrach22
22 Comments
100% agree. Wesley is sooooo good for the tour. Huge mistake by the PGA not to let him back in yet.
Did they actually reinstate Reed? I thought he just said he wasn’t returning to LIV?
Wesley addressed this on a BDS podcast saying there is a specific discipline policy for media and advertising stuff that should apply to his case because the pros didnt get any of the scrambles prize money. He played in 4 9 hole scrambles where he made money from the YT content.
He should be sentenced to time served. He is being punished way too severely.
Riot in the streets?
Sorry – he knew the rules but made the choice to get himself suspended.
I don’t like Wesley but even I can agree they should reinstate him
Looking at the comments, I never realized Wesley had so many haters
Wesley knew he was doing something he shouldn’t and it will likely just be a 1 year from last LIV event suspension.
if any other company behaved like the PGA reddit would be up in arms. the PGA is behaving extremely petty and opportunistic and it should be embarrassing.
“durr he knew the rules” well what if the rules are petty monopolistic bullshit?
he probably wouldn’t make the cut but he should be allowed to try. r/golf has a hard on for absurd punitive punishments for a youtube video where someone plays golf. it may as well be 9/11 or something the way people talk about a fucking golf youtube video
Post this on every golf forum you can find. Twitter too if it still exists
They let Reed back on tour? What a horribly disappointing piece of information.
I’d imagine they’d let him pay to go thru KF and prove himself like any other known golf talent would do after not having status. Sucks he can’t get sponsor spots but I’d imagine if he could prove a force they’d rethink
Why? He is no where near as acomplished as the players coming back? P Reed has to go to the Euro Tour/KFT Route
Fuck off with this absolute bullshit. He has done nothing important in golf. Sit at home and crank one out watching his lane YouTube, but fuck off with a petition to join the tour.
You are pathetic and need a life if you seriously launched a petition. You really need to reevaluate things.
No one is watching Wes on pga tour. On YouTube he has a following. But for PGA it doesn’t move the needle
He can go back to the Korn Ferry and earn his way back on.
No.
This guy is a douche bag
Gimme the Gooch before anyone else and we can start getting rid of all these asterisks
This is just a petition starter writing an editorial by the way.
Fuck this guy, make an example of him