Major winner. Fitness trailblazer. Equipment maverick. YouTube star. Bryson DeChambeau is a lot of the things, but after two trainwreck performances at the Masters and the PGA Championship, he’s turning the page, and his latest chapter is unfortunately his most predictable yet:
Moon-landing truther.
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“Elon [Musk] says we’ve definitely gone there, so I tend to go that route because he’s the man that knows quite a bit about all that,” DeChambeau explained on the Katie Miller Podcast this week. “Artemis just went around the moon. I do believe if we spent a lot of our resources like they say we did, I think we did [go to the moon]. I don’t think the footage is real, but I think we did go to the moon. I don’t know about the footage, it’s quite wild.”
This seems like the kind of answer you would give if you didn’t believe in the moon landing but wanted to protect your commercial interests and not be labelled a whack-job loony. And his reason for believing is because Elon Musk – a billionaire who’s still tweeting through it like a high schooler whose parents are getting divorced – says so? Come on, Bryson. You can do better.
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In the end, everyone’s entitled to believe what they want to believe, but somewhere along the way, human beings have forgotten that facts, and the overwhelming bodies of evidence that support them, are not matters of belief. The internet, and it’s tumult of deepfakes, AI slop and highly influential idiots presenting statements of opinion as commonly held truths have made billions of people across the globe sceptical of their own history. Unfortunately, DeChambeau is one of them. We can’t necessarily blame him. We also live in the post-truth age. But it’s important to remember, especially if you’re one of the millions of young Bryson DeChambeau fans out there, two very important things:
1. Colour TV was the hot new technology in the 1960s, not AI or CGI.
2. No one, apart from maybe fisherman after a six-pack and an afternoon in the hot sun, love to stretch the truth more than golfers.
