The Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee is the network’s star analyst. He is also a smear merchant who’s libeled the LIV Golf league and its players since its inception.
Let there be no doubt. Chamblee’s beef with LIV Golf is one-hundred percent related to helping the PGA Tour maintain its monopoly, yet the one-time tour winner spouts his criticism using a moral filter, e.g. “Saudi Arabia is an authoritarian state, hence LIV Golf supports terrorism” or some such ridiculous relativism. (While ignoring the fact that NBC Sports made millions broadcasting the Russia and China Olympics. And/or that the same Saudi Arabia that funds LIV Golf also owns large shares of Twitter where Chamblee spins more hate. Or that his iPhone was made in Communist China. You get the hypocritical gist.)
First a bit of a table setter: Chamblee’s cohorts on the golf network aren’t nearly as acerbic but generally nod along with his anti-LIV rants, while on Twitter, he simply turns off replies and/or blocks any critical comments. Bottomline: he lives in a self-induced echo chamber.
Brandel Chamblee tonight… pic.twitter.com/VKt9aMHkDH
— Tim Wright (@twright623) May 22, 2023
Throughout the first seven rounds of the opening two majors of 2023, Chamblee did a decent job of trying to remain objective and even-handed. But on Sunday night, following Brooks Koepka‘s fifth career major at the 105th PGA Championship, which moved him to No.2 on the U.S. Ryder Cup team, Chamblee lost it, essentially demanding Koepka be banned from Ryder Cup eligibility.
Everything was going as scripted (Chamblee ranting, Rich Lerner nodding) until Brad Faxon calmly disagreed. That’s when the anti-LIV robot essentially broke down and required a reboot – first repeating Faxon’s words, and then just basically powering off.
Watch:
Things got a little awkward on Golf Channel Sunday night as Brandel Chamblee and Brad Faxon entered a "stand-off" debating Brooks Koepka being on the US Ryder Cup team. pic.twitter.com/iIapWiooDk
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 22, 2023
Reaction from Twitter:
I can't listen to a word from Eamon Lynch and Brandel Chamblee anymore. I hit mute or change the channel the second I hear their voices. #PGAChampionship
— 7th October 2021 (@InsaneHashtag) May 16, 2023
Brandel Chamblee is absolutely befuddled by the lightbulb going off that the Ryder Cup is not playing for whatever tour you play on. Dude is just talking nonsense.
— Jack Parkman, PhD (@GoodDoctorHank) May 21, 2023
I’ve agreed with you for a while. @GolfChannel and Brandel Chamblee combine to form a classless disgrace to the sport. I will never watch it again. pic.twitter.com/0AuQBUbbiW
— WallStPete (@WallStPete) May 22, 2023
Brandel Chamblee is a loser and embarrassment to golf. Brooks deserves a Ryder Cup spot. GTFO of here with the LIV and PGA debate. There’s no beef. The players have said there is no beef. The only beef is the low life losers like Brandel Chamblee making up fake beef.
— Brendan Budge (@brendan_budge) May 21, 2023
The part of Ron Burgundy will be played by Brandel Chamblee ?
— Pro Golf Critic (@NotDrJ) May 22, 2023
? | Former Golf Channel reporter Lisa Cornwell says LIV Golf critic Brandel Chamblee 'showed his true colours' in his bizarre standoff with Brad Faxon.
"He's a bully, plain and simple." ?️ pic.twitter.com/QDK9eAoDbr
— GolfMagic (@GolfMagic) May 23, 2023
@GolfChannel Fire Brandel Chamblee, please!
— Virgil Hilts (@RustyHale1966) May 21, 2023
Hypocrites Chamblee and Lynch work for a company that helped sportwash Russia and China to make $ by television their Olympics without criticizing their murder and oppression . . .@eamonlynch @BrandelChamblee @GolfChannel @PGATOUR https://t.co/74EwztbIqS
— Ping G2 (@ping_g2) May 24, 2023
With Brooks winning PGA Championship I wonder:
1. How Brandel Chamblee is gonna react
2. How tough this will be mentally for Rory
3. If Jay Monahan has had a stroke yet
4. If this will speed up LIV players getting OGWR, they deserve it#PGAChamp #PGAChampionship2023— 爪ㄖ乇 (@MorganWilhite) May 21, 2023
Brandel Chamblee trying to back himself up after Brad Faxon KO’s him. pic.twitter.com/r6LIPCwgrA
— @countryclubadjacent (@ccapodcast) May 24, 2023
