LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau came under fire ahead of the Open Championship as a top golf analyst questioned his drive to win.
The two-time major winner is entering this week’s Open at Royal Birkdale looking to reach the weekend of a major championship for the first time this year after missing the cut at the Masters, PGA Championship and US Open.
Yet, while the 32-year-old’s on-course performance has plummeted, his YouTube success has rocketed.
And Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee couldn’t resist taking a shot at the American’s social media fame during the network’s ‘Live From The Open’ broadcast.
‘One of the biggest surprises of the year is Bryson DeChambeau,’ Chamblee began. ‘It’s almost like he went from chasing Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy to chasing Grant Horvat.
‘It’s like he wants to outdo every YouTuber in the game instead of out play everybody in the game of golf.’
Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee (L) took aim at Bryson DeChambeau (R) ahead of the Open
The top golf analyst questioned the 32-yar-old’s drive to win amid his YouTube success
DeChambeau ditched the PGA Tour for LIV Golf on a mega-money deal alongside fellow major winners Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and the now-returned Brooks Koepka in 2022.
While he won the US Open for a second time in 2024, it marks his only success away from the breakaway tour in the past four years.
Now he is left desperately hoping to avoid an undesirable feat which hasn’t been accomplished since 1998: missing the cut on all four majors in a single calendar year.
Chamblee wasn’t the only one to take aim at DeChambeau ahead of the final major of the year this week.
Golf legend turned analyst Nick Faldo also tore into the big hitter, questioning his ability to strategize on the links course.
‘That’s a whole part of the story, how they’re superstars at LIV then come over and can’t do it. So that’s all another story. Then they go back to be superstars. He has – I’d say it to his face – he has zero clue of strategy,’ Faldo said on Sky Sports.
Faldo, a three-time Open winner himself, added: ‘Well, I’ve never attacked a links. You thread it, don’t you? You feed it down the fairway.’
DeChambeau has faced a lot of questions in recent months over his future with the fate of LIV Golf in doubt.
The Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund pulled its financial backing from the circuit beyond this season earlier this year leaving the future of LIV’s stars in doubt.
DeChambeau raised eyebrows in May when he told ESPN that should LIV collapse, he would ‘love to grow my YouTube Channel’ and ‘play tournaments that want me.’
