Bryson DeChambeau has been in the news this week. Stop us if you’ve heard that one before. The US Ryder Cup star has come under fire from Rory McIlroy and Brandel Chamblee specifically, the latter unleashing a scathing monologue in New York in which he likened DeChambeau to a “circus barker.”
Golf Channel’s “Live From” is back in full force this week at Bethpage and so is Brandel Chamblee, who opened the week’s first show with an absolute scorcher.
Tommy Fleetwood extended a PGA Tour record he’d like to not have by recording a 42nd career top 10 without a win with his latest runner-up at the Travelers Championship. But it gets even more painful when you take a closer look at his penultimate putt.
The Masters and rules go together like pimento cheese and white bread. No running, no phones, no cash. Heck, there’s even a rule for where swing coaches stand while working with their player on the driving range… oh, and don’t under any circumstances call it the “driving range”. That’s according to Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee, Read more…
While Chamblee says he’s never felt Augusta is a perfect course fit for McIlroy’s game, he stated that the problems, particularly in the first round, seem more mental than physical.
The move is not a permanent one, as this is now the third different analyst for NBC’s golf coverage in 2024 as the network continues to try to find a replacement for Paul Azinger, whose contract was not renewed this past November.
The current majors rota of the Masters, US Open, Open Championship and PGA Championship has been established since 1934, when the Masters was inaugurated, and since then, there hasn’t seemed to be much appetite from fans or the golf establishment to add to that. Chamblee calls that thinking “antiquated”.