Brandel Chamblee is hardly LIV Golf or Bryson DeChambeau's biggest fan, and he had more criticism for him just ahead of the 154th Open Championship.
Chamblee has long believed that playing on LIV has hampered top players in their search for Major glory, but DeChambeau proved it was no barrier for him as he claimed a second US Open title in 2024.
DeChambeau had been the biggest Major force across a couple of years, but 2026 has been a big struggle and he heads to Royal Birkdale hoping to avoid missing the cut in all four Majors this year.
And Chamblee's latest jibe at the two-time US Open champion centres around him being more interested in chasing YouTube views than golfing success.
Speaking on Golf Channel's 'Live From' show at Birkdale, Chamblee claims DeChambeau's taken his eye off the ball in terms of his on-course success as he looks to become the biggest YouTube star in golf.
“Probably one of the biggest surprises of the year is Bryson DeChambeau. It’s almost like he went from chasing Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy to chasing Grant Horvat," said Chamblee.
"It’s like he wants to outdo every YouTuber in the game of golf instead of outplay everybody in the game of golf.”
DeChambeau has two wins on LIV Golf this year but has not managed to translate that form to the Majors so far, with now four cuts missed out of his last five starts.
And so from usually arriving at Majors being the man to beat, the pressure on DeChambeau at Birkdale is to avoid the ignomy of a clean sweep of missed cuts in a season.
If he fails to make the weekend again, DeChambeau would become the first multiple Major champion to miss all four cuts in a year since 1998.
DeChambeau has 'zero clue on links strategy'
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DeChambeau did manage a top-10 finish at Royal Portrush last year after previously struggling, but Sir Nick Faldo is among those who believe he'll struggle again at a firm and fast Birkdale.
The three-time Open champion did not hold back in his stinging criticism of DeChambeau's approach to links golf - saying he had "zero clue of strategy" in this type of test.
“I'd say it to his face - DeChambeau has zero clue of strategy,” Faldo said on the Sky Sports Golf podcast.
“He said last year, ‘I'm going to go out and attack the links’. Well, I've never attacked a links. You thread it, don't you? You feed it down the fairway.
“You look at humps and bumps. If I send it over and feed it, it nudges back into play. You don't think, ‘Oh, I'll just blast it down there. Can't see where I'm going’. The fairway is 20 yards wide.
“Good luck. Even if you hit it fantastic and it lands on the corner of a divot, you might still miss the fairway. So you've got to think, ‘How do I get it on the short grass?’ It is so important."
DeChambeau is very much is own man and will do things his way again at Birkdale, and he'll be desperate to prove people wrong by at least making the weekend at the Open.
