Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee is never shy to criticize LIV Golf and its gamers. When Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm collapsed down the stretch of the PGA Championship, Chamblee jumped on the alternative to bash the rival golf league.
Throughout Golf Channel’s “Stay From the PGA Championship,” Chamblee blamed LIV Golf for failing to organize gamers for main championship golf.
“It issues the place you play to be sharp, to be at your finest, to check your self in opposition to the very best, which they’re not enjoying in opposition to the very best week in and week out,” Chamblee mentioned. “When it mattered essentially the most — 16, 17 and 18 — whenever you needed to hit pictures, whenever you needed to management your nerves, whenever you needed to management the rhythm of your golf swing, Scottie had it. Bryson didn’t. Rahm didn’t.”
It is exhausting to argue in opposition to his level concerning the PGA Championship. Through the third spherical, after DeChambeau took the outright lead late within the day, the two-time main champ bogeyed the sixteenth gap and double bogeyed the seventeenth after hitting his tee shot within the water. In the meantime, Scheffler went 5 underneath in his final 5 holes on Saturday to seize the lead getting into the ultimate spherical.
As for Rahm, he made a run at Scheffler on Sunday and located himself in a tie for the lead early within the again 9. With the title in attain, the Spaniard went bogey-double bogey-double bogey in his final three holes to fall out of rivalry. Scheffler, after a rocky entrance 9, went 3 underneath in his first eight holes on the again 9 to separate from the pack. His bogey on the 18th gap hardly mattered with the six-shot lead he delivered to the tee field.
Though Chamblee is correct about their PGA Championship performances, many LIV golfers have been constantly aggressive in main championships.
DeChambeau, as an example, has a win and 4 different top-six finishes in his final six main begins. Rahm has completed T7, T14 and T8 in his final three majors. Brooks Koepka received the PGA Championship in 2023. Patrick Reed has two top-five finishes in majors since becoming a member of LIV, and Cameron Smith has three top-10s.
Nonetheless, since LIV Golf shaped in 2022, 10 of the 12 main champions in that span got here from the PGA Tour. Perhaps Chamblee has a degree about LIV golfers not being correctly ready for main championship Sundays.
