Don\u2019t ask Jim Nantz, the voice of the Masters, to give you too much insight into Bryson DeChambeau\u2019s current golf game.<\/p>\n
DeChambeau was one of the biggest names in professional golf when he spurned the PGA Tour for a lucrative deal with LIV Golf in 2022. While he still performs extremely well at majors, winning the 2024 U.S. Open and finishing second in the 2025 PGA Championship, most of his golfing happens on a tour that doesn\u2019t exactly draw many eyeballs<\/a>.<\/p>\n That includes Nantz\u2019s.<\/p>\n On Monday\u2019s CBS Sports 2026 Masters preview press call, the longtime golf announcer was asked to talk about which golfers might be considered contenders for the tournament this year, admitting in the process that he\u2019s only watched DeChambeau on YouTube.<\/p>\n \u201cI think if you had to pick one guy, [Scottie Scheffler] would be the guy, and probably right behind him would be Bryson. Just given his recent track record,\u201d said Nantz. \u201cI have to confess, I have not seen Bryson hit a single shot this year. I have not seen him, so for me to say what his form looks like,\u00a0all I can go off is the YouTube videos I\u2019ve watched with my son. That\u2019s all I\u2019ve seen. Busy doing our own coverage, so I haven\u2019t seen him play. But I know his desire to win there. I know Bryson quite well through the years, and it wouldn\u2019t surprise me at all to see him in a Green Jacket one day.\u201d<\/p>\n The comment drew strong rebukes from LIV fans, who see it as proof that the \u201cmainstream media\u201d is overlooking the tour. To be fair, so is almost everyone else, especially as some of that tour\u2019s top names<\/a> jump ship to return to the PGA Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n If anything, it speaks to the fractured nature of professional golf right now. That someone so involved as Nantz isn\u2019t paying attention to what one of the best players in the world is doing all season long means he\u2019s probably not alone, and that\u2019s a bad thing.<\/p>\n Good news for Nantz, he\u2019ll get to see plenty of DeChambeau when the 2026 Masters gets going on April 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t ask Jim Nantz, the voice of the Masters, to give you too much insight into Bryson DeChambeau\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[180036,15547,427,32289,10658,99],"class_list":["post-555292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-2026-masters","tag-bryson-dechambeau","tag-golf","tag-jim-nantz","tag-liv-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}