Brandel Chamblee’s recent revelation should fill golf fans with sadness after what Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm did at the PGA Championship

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After the dust settles on the 2025 PGA Championship, golf fans will all be realising that something still isn’t quite right.

Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm performed exceptionally well at Quail Hollow, and at one point during the final round, both players were genuinely in with a chance of pipping Scottie Scheffler to the PGA Championship trophy.

Scheffler is a level above everyone else in the professional game right now, but LIV Golf duo DeChambeau and Rahm look like they could be ready to push him all the way in the final two majors of the season.

DeChambeau needs to produce the goods under pressure more consistently, if he is to start winning big events on a regular basis.

Meanwhile, Rahm admitted after the PGA Championship that his swing mechanics let him down during the final few holes on Sunday.

One thing’s for sure, both players provide absolutely box-office entertainment, and they are needed back on the PGA Tour as a matter of urgency.

However, Brandel Chamblee recently said something that should fill all golf fans with real dread.

What Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm did at the PGA Championship tempered with sadness

It’s just such a shame that we, as golf fans, only get to see the American and the Spaniard compete against the world’s best players four times per year.

Now it’s about time the powers that be on both sides of the divide do everything they can to ensure that we see more of them.

LIV can keep the rest, aside from maybe Joaquin Niemann – they add nothing to professional golf at the highest level.

Can you imagine how competitive the PGA Tour would be right now if DeChambeau and Rahm were involved on a week-to-week basis?

However, golf fans will be brought crashing down to reality when remembering something that Chamblee said last month about a potential merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.

He explained, “The beginning of last year, I was on the range at The American Express. I’m not going to name his name, but I saw someone who’s one of the gatekeepers of golf. A billionaire businessman. I said what’s going to happen, and he said, ‘The deal will never get done’.“

That’s a really sobering thought, isn’t it?

The only thing we can hope is that when DeChambeau and Rahm’s contracts expire with LIV, they come back to the PGA Tour with their tails between their legs.

Where do DeChambeau and Rahm stand in the Data Golf rankings?

The Official Golf World Rankings are not even worth looking at right now.

There is a huge discrepancy being caused by the fact that LIV golfers do not receive ranking points when they play in their events.

So instead, the Data Golf Rankings is a far better barometer.

Here are the current top 10 golfers in the world:

That is a much fairer reflection of who the best golfers in the world really are right now.

And nobody can argue with the top four.

It’s just such a shame that golf fans don’t get the chance to watch DeChambeau and Rahm compete regularly against Scheffler and McIlroy.