Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee has launched his latest scathing attack on the LIV Golf League, calling its format “stupid”, its concept “laughable”, and arguing there is “no way to judge the talents of the players” involved.
Chamblee has famously never been a fan of the PGA Tour’s more compact rival and has regularly criticized players who switched tours for the highly-lucrative deals offered by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, which controls LIV.
And speaking exclusively to Golf WRX‘s Matt Vincenzi ahead of the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla, Chamblee continued his no-holds-barred assessment of LIV Golf by insisting it is impossible to know if one of its players is truly in form due to the concise format and seemingly over-friendly course layouts.
Chamblee said: “The format for LIV is just stupid. There’s no other word for it. 54 holes, 54 players start. Willy nilly here and there. Nobody winning a golf tournament should finish on the third hole on some par three while his closest competitors finish on the 17th hole or the 18th hole.
“It’s just a laughable concept. There’s no way to judge the talents of these players out there. You look at their data, and again, their data is laughable. It’s very hard to hit 75% of your greens and it looks like everybody on their tour is hitting 75% of greens. Who’s keeping their stats? Who’s doing their data? They haven’t gotten their act together.”
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Going on to use the European Tour during its heydey in the 1980s and 1990s as an example of being able to truly judge a rival circuit’s players appropriately, Chamblee continued his assessment of LIV golfers by stating more of them should be working harder to qualify for Majors.
He said: “They went to play on a Tour that they knew didn’t qualify for world ranking points. So, if they want to get in majors, they’re going to have to figure out a way to qualify, the way Joaquin Niemann did. Go play some events that we can clearly judge the kind of player that you are. The format of LIV is just not conducive to judgement.”
Chamblee’s condemnation of LIV follows just days after he backed the PGA Tour to complete a deal with the PIF – calling it “the better end of the deal.”
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