Nick Faldo does not grace our television sets as often as he used to, but that is not going to stop him from absolutely firing off some takes when he gets the opportunity.<\/p>\n
The six-time major champion appeared on the Sky Sports Golf Podcast hosted by Jamie Weir on Monday at Royal Birkdale, and the topic of Bryson DeChambeau\u2014and his relationship with links golf\u2014naturally came up. DeChambeau\u2019s links golf career got off to a rather\u00a0inauspicious start, as he poste just one top 10 in his first seven tries at the Open and missed the cut three times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The two-time U.S. Open champion was on his way to a fourth Open MC last year at Royal Portrush, where he shot a first-round 78. In benign conditions, though, he fought his way all the way back to finish T-10 thanks to rounds of 65, 68 and 64. As soft as Portrush played on the weekend, it was still commendable, and it locked up his third top 10 in a major in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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This year, though, DeChambeau is not just 0-for-3 in top 10s at the majors, he hasn\u2019t even made the weekend at one. At Royal Birkdale, he\u2019s going for the wrong kind of slam.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s got to be a rough slam, isn\u2019t it?\u201d Faldo said on the Sky Sports podcast. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to name it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turns out, Faldo was just beginning to cook. Weir asked him what\u2019s happened to DeChambeau at the majors in 2026, and Sir Nick did not hold back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has\u2014I\u2019d say it to his face\u2014he has zero clue of strategy. I mean, you don\u2019t \u2014 he said it last year, I think on TV, he said \u2018I\u2019m going to go out an attack the links.\u2019 Well, I\u2019ve never \u2018attacked\u2019 a links,\u201d said Faldo, who won three claret jugs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou thread it, don\u2019t you? You feed it down the fairway, it\u2019s really important. You look at humps and bumps and think, if I send it over and feed it, it nudges back into play. You don\u2019t think \u2018oh, I\u2019ll just bomb it down there, can\u2019t see where I\u2019m going, it\u2019s 20 yards wide.\u2019 Oh, yeah, good luck.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some might see this is classic Faldo jibberish, but this is a guy who made the cut in his first 23 Open Championship appearances. He even posted a pair of top 11 finishes in 2003 and 2005 when he was in his mid-to-late 40s. He might know what he\u2019s talking about when it comes to links golf.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Good news for DeChambeau is he has a prime opportunity to prove everyone, Faldo included, very wrong this week at Royal Birkdale.<\/p>\n
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