There has been verbal sparring between DeChambeau and McIlroy since the Masters, where the American said he would chirp in McIlroy\u2019s ear at the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n
World No 2 McIlroy, a five-time major winner, said last month that DeChambeau, who plays in the Saudi-backed LIV Golf League, just talks about other golfers to gain attention.<\/p>\n
DeChambeau, popular with US fans for his YouTube video series and a high-fiving flamboyance on the course, responded, saying: \u201cWhatever Rory says and whatnot is great. He didn\u2019t mean anything by it. I hope we can have some good banter back and forth.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIlroy said he does not care who he plays but added: \u201cIf I come up against Bryson at some point, I think that\u2019s great. That\u2019s wonderful for the championship and wonderful for us, as well, in some ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
DeChambeau agreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWould I love to go up against him? Yeah. It would be a lot of fun,\u201d he said. \u201cIs it going to happen? It\u2019s not likely. I mean, maybe once. You never know. I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s planning behind the scenes or whatnot.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a fierce competitor, a great competitor, one I would love the opportunity to play against this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
DeChambeau won\u2019t mind using his popularity to inspire the New York crowd.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew York fans are incredible. I\u2019ve been up here a few times playing and as rowdy and ruckus as they get, they still love the game of golf,\u201d DeChambeau said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more excited for the opportunity to hopefully get them riled up and excited for what\u2019s to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
When a Golf Channel commentator called out DeChambeau for being more focused on his YouTube videos than in promoting the Ryder Cup, DeChambeau took it in his stride.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny time that people can throw stuff at me like that, I enjoy it. I appreciate it. I think it\u2019s good for ultimately the game of golf because it starts to spur conversation on,\u201d DeChambeau said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny time you can say something like that and create more buzz for the game of golf, it\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been verbal sparring between DeChambeau and McIlroy since the Masters, where the American said he would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[38596,806,38597,7022,38591,10542,38592,2178,22729,1872,5760,18480,38598,38594,38595,111,139,69,2572,35138,35917,29647,213,9939,61,2179,9938,540,38593],"class_list":["post-43316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-45th","tag-as","tag-bethpage","tag-black","tag-bryson","tag-cup","tag-dechambeau","tag-donald","tag-europes","tag-face","tag-force","tag-golfers","tag-longs","tag-mcilroy","tag-motivational","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-president","tag-rory","tag-ryder","tag-sees","tag-sports","tag-states","tag-to","tag-trump","tag-united","tag-where","tag-yearns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}