{"id":163963,"date":"2025-09-23T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163963\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:15:08","slug":"bryson-dechambeau-is-a-captains-nightmare-says-brandel-chamblee-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163963\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau is a \u2018captain\u2019s nightmare\u2019, says Brandel Chamblee \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBC golf analyst Brandel Chamblee has said Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> is a \u201ccaptain\u2019s nightmare\u201d and his YouTube views are generated by bots in a blistering attack on the US golfer before the Ryder Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Golf Channel with Rich Lerner and Paul McGinley, Chamblee said the comments in relation to DeChambeau taking the opportunity to bring up his YouTube channel when asked to respond to comments made by Rory McIlroy<\/a> in an interview. DeChambeau has 2.4 million YouTube subscribers and has played rounds with US president Donald Trump, John Daly and others.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s trying to drum some interest up for himself and I thought it was poignant when he was asked about the rhetoric of Rory, he didn\u2019t mention the goal this week of winning the Ryder Cup. He didn\u2019t talk about playing on a team and how much that meant,\u201d Chamblee said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he did do was talk about his YouTube channel, if you want to talk about the numbers generated by that, it\u2019s pretty dubious. I have no doubt that bots are generating those views. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have no doubt there is some interest as well, but that\u2019s what he wants to talk about. Not the team, not the Ryder Cup. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of the reasons he will be so difficult to get paired with. No doubt he is one hell of a golfer, no doubt he has his moments of generosity with fans, I\u2019ve heard about them. He\u2019s an odd duck when he\u2019s trying to fit in with a team and he has so many bulletin board mistakes. I think he would be a captain\u2019s nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeChambeau had been asked about comments McIlroy made in an interview last week<\/a>, where McIlroy said: \u201cI think the only way he gets attention is by mentioning other people. That is basically what I think of that. To get attention he will mention me or Scottie [Scheffler] or others.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, DeChambeau said: \u201cAll I\u2019m trying to do is to inspire kids on YouTube. We\u2019ve developed a big audience, I\u2019m trying to focus on that train of thought, whatever Rory says and what not, I\u2019m excited and I hope we have some good banter back and forth and if not and he wants to keep doing what he\u2019s doing, no problem. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe crowd is going to be on our side, we\u2019re going to have a fun time. Ultimately my job is for a kid out there looking at me hitting the golf ball and smiling, that\u2019s the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBC golf analyst Brandel Chamblee has said Bryson DeChambeau is a \u201ccaptain\u2019s nightmare\u201d and his YouTube views are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[1975,49,48,622,1976,13261,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-163963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bryson-dechambeau","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-rory-mcilroy","13":"tag-ryder-cup","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}