Brandel Chamblee is a well-known critic of LIV Golf and, indeed, Bryson DeChambeau.
DeChambeau was one of the most high-profile names to leave the PGA Tour in order to join LIV Golf back in June 2022.
The 32-year-old has enjoyed huge success since joining LIV, and he is one of only two players to have won a major since leaving the PGA Tour for the Saudi-backed outfit, alongside Brooks Koepka.
Bryson DeChambeau has won five times on LIV Golf, and he is one of the few players who have improved since leaving the PGA Tour.
However, the two-time U.S. Open champion has still managed to incur the wrath of Brandel Chamblee on numerous occasions.
Chamblee has suggested that DeChambeau has been ‘manipulated’ by LIV Golf, due to the fact that he is the face of an outfit who are trying to ‘legitimize an oppressive regime’.
However, Chamblee did recently perform a U-turn on LIV Golf receiving world ranking points, suggesting that all of their players do indeed deserve to be ranked.
Brandel Chamblee mocks Bryson DeChambeau’s LIV Golf accomplishment
It’s no surprise that Chamblee found it hard to praise DeChambeau too highly, is it?
Chamblee was speaking on his Favorite Chamblee Podcast about DeChambeau’s chances of winning The Masters next week.
However, the former PGA Tour player highlighted how it is so hard to figure out how well the golfers on LIV are actually playing, due to some of their ‘dubious’ statistics.
“Their statistics out there are just laughable to look at,“ Chamblee said.
“I’ll try to put it in perspective.
“Bryson, he’s played, like, five times this year. He’s averaging right at 77% of the greens in regulation.
“To put that into perspective. When he played the tour for five or six years, he averaged around 67% of the greens hit in regulation.
“Tour leaders every year in greens regulation is usually around 72, 73%. When Tiger had his historic year in 2000, he hit 75% of the greens.
“Nobody’s ever hit a golf ball better than Tiger in 2000, and I can promise you, Bryson’s not hitting his irons that good.
“And he’s not even leading! Jon Rahm is leading with 82.22% of the greens in regulation.
“This would be like Steph Curry shooting free throws through a hula hoop size goal and peacocking around like he’s, you know, better than he’s ever been.
“So, you know, the numbers are just, you know, they’re dubious, and you kind of look at them askance, and you’re like, you can’t make heads or tails of those.“
This is a really tricky one. It’s doubtful that LIV are actually fiddling the numbers.
The reason for the incredibly high greens in regulation numbers is probably because the majority of golf courses they play over on LIV are resort layouts and far easier than the average PGA Tour track.
LIV Golf greens in regulation stats
Interestingly, if you have hit 74% of greens in regulation on LIV Golf this season, you’re not even inside the top 10.
Conversely, greens in regulation the leader on the PGA Tour is Johnny Keefer, with an average of 73.72%.
Jon Rahm leads the way on LIV Golf, with just over 82% of greens hit in regulation so far this season.
The greens at both LIV Singapore and LIV South Africa were an average size of just over 7,000 square feet.
Meanwhile, the average size of the greens on the PGA Tour are typically between 5,000 and 6,000 square feet.
That explains why the greens in regulation stats on LIV Golf appear to be so skewed.
Despite Brandel Chamblee’s skepticism about Bryson DeChambeau’s GIR numbers on LIV, there is undoubtedly a more logical explanation than what the golf analyst is implying.