The knives were out for Bryson DeChambeau on Tuesday.
After Nick Faldo took shots at the popular golfer on Sky Sports, Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee got in digs of his own in a clip from the network’s “Live From The Open” broadcast that same day.
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Chamblee questioned DeChambeau’s drive to win by poking fun at his successful YouTube platform.
“One of the biggest surprises of the year is Bryson DeChambeau,” Chamblee started off saying. “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.”
Bryson DeChambeau chips out of a sand trap during the second round of the 2026 US Open golf tournament at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York in June. SARAH YENESEL/EPA/Shutterstock
Golf pundits have been particularly critical of DeChambeau as he enters this week’s British Open at Royal Birkdale, having missed the cut for every major this year, which makes the stinging words somewhat understandable.
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Despite success during events in LIV Golf — the tour he shifted to in 2022 — this year, he has not played into the weekend at three of golf’s four biggest events.
DeChambeau, who won the U.S. Open in 2020 and 2024, is looking to avoid a feat that no golfer has accomplished since 1998, which is to miss the cut on all four majors in a single calendar year.
Tom Watson and Ben Crenshaw both did so that year.
Speaking with Sky Sports on Tuesday, Faldo questioned DeChambeau’s ability to strategize on the course, critiquing a particular comment that the 32-year-old had made about wanting to “attack the links.”
Bryson DeChambeau of the United States poses with fans and signs autographs by the 9th hole during a practice round for the British Open Golf championships at Royal Birkdale golf club, in Southport, England, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. AP Photo/Jon Super
“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.
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Faldo, the three-time British Open and three-time Masters winner, added: “Well, I’ve never attacked a links. You thread it, don’t you? You feed it down the fairway.”
DeChambeau, like other golfers on the LIV Tour, has faced plenty of questions about his future as the sustainability of the rebel golf league is up in the air with the Saudi Public Investment Fund pulling its financial backing after this season.
The LIV Golf star told ESPN in May that should his current golf league shutter, he would “love to grow my YouTube Channel” and “play tournaments that want me.”
Chamblee, who won one PGA Tour event during his career and never won a major, is no stranger to making blunt comments, including about DeChambeau.
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Last September, he called DeChambeau a “circus barker” and a “captain’s nightmare” prior to the Ryder Cup on Long Island.
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