Bryson DeChambeau's Bridgestone sponsorship relationship halted amid his involvement in Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour. Bryson DeChambeau and golf ball manufacturer Bridgestone have agreed to end their sponsorship relationship, the company confirmed to ESPN.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Kurt Kitayama only had to look around at the players next to him in the practice area and right below him on the leaderboard at Bay Hill to know what he was up against Sunday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. "You can't ignore it.

Kitayama took down a stacked leaderboard to nearly double his career earnings on Sunday at Bay Hill. A rollercoaster affair Sunday at Bay Hill culminated with the perhaps the most unsteady of the bunch, Kurt Kitayama, donning the red cardigan as winner of the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club...2019, 2017, 2016, ...Florida2018 Arnold Palmer Invitational/Event locations The Arnold Palmer Invitational is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It is played each March at the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, a private golf resort owned since 1974 by Arnold Palmer in Bay Hill, a suburb southwest of Orlando, Florida.

Bryson DeChambeau will tee it up in the Open Championship using Bridgestone's Tour B X ball at the Old Course at St. Andrews, but he will not be doing so as one of the company's staff players.

Sponsor Rocket Mortgage says it has cut ties with Bryson DeChambeau after the 2020 US Open champion said he would play on the controversial Saudi-funded LIV Golf series.

In a career spanning more than six decades, Palmer won 62 PGA Tour titles from 1955 to 1973. He is fifth on the Tour's all-time victory list, trailing only Sam Snead, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and Ben Hogan. He won seven major titles in a six-plus-year domination from the 1958 Masters to the 1964 Masters.

Golf Channel and NBC will share TV coverage of the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational, with Golf Channel taking the first two rounds and early coverage on the weekend, and NBC providing the primary broadcasts on Saturday and Sunday.

The Arnold Palmer is a non-alcoholic beverage that combines iced tea and lemonade. The name refers to the professional American golfer Arnold Palmer, who was known to often request and drink this beverage combination; some attribute the invention of the beverage to the golfer.

"Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented."

2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational Final Payouts, Prize Money: Kurt Kitayama Wins $3.6 Million.

Bryson's Ball Speed Timeline Bryson DeChambeau's average ball speed for the 2021 season is 191.5 mph. This is 22.5 mph faster than the average ball speed on the PGA Tour.