Brandel Chamblee suggests what would have happened to Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm if they had stayed on the PGA Tour rather than joined LIV

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Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm were among the LIV Golf players to have taken on the PGA Championship, with both in contention in the final round.

But it was Scottie Scheffler who emerged victorious at Quail Hollow, winning the PGA Championship by five shots.

Bubba Watson says Scheffler is playing boring golf, with the latter now on two wins for the 2025 PGA Tour season.

The world number one also now has three major championship wins to his name, having won The Masters on two occasions.

He saw off competition from DeChambeau this time around, with the LIV Golf star finishing T2 alongside Davis Riley and Harris English.

Brandel Chamblee has Jon Rahm ‘promise’ after what happened at the PGA Championship

Rahm meanwhile finished T8, with Brandel Chamblee saying LIV Golf doesn’t keep players competitive enough for major tournaments.

Chamblee has now extended that opinion, saying on The Favourite Chamblee podcast: “I would say look at the LIV players in the aggregate.

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“Of course, they have got some very good players. The Saudis went after them because they were star players.

“They got the best players that their petrol dollars could buy, so it’s not like they are not going to play well from time to time.

“Phil [Mickelson] played well at The Masters, Brooks [Koepka] played well at The Masters and then won the PGA and Bryson won the US Open last year.

“But in the aggregate, if you go down and look at the 16 players they had at the PGA Championship, if they were a race horse, you would put them in a claiming race.

“They are playing some of the worst golf and the data shows that the vast majority of LIV players, their games have deteriorated when their games went to LIV.

“It could be they are sated by their money or the courses are not strong enough and set up in a tough enough way to really test them.

“It could be that the competition like Jon Rahm finished in the top 10 at every LIV event he played last year.

“He came into the press centre this week and said I was not playing well enough and that’s why I didn’t play well in the majors. But you say these both can’t be true.

“You can’t be finishing in the top 10 in every LIV event and say you are not playing well without indicting the LIV Tour for having a lack of competition.

“So indirectly he indicted the very tour that he played and he made my point for me. They are not playing enough competition against the best players in the world to be held accountable to make the necessary adjustments in their game.

“I promise you if Jon Rahm was playing against Scottie Scheffler every week he would be saying why am I getting beat? Why is this guy beating me every week?

“And maybe he wouldn’t be as quick in transition. Maybe he would figure out the double cross. Because they are little, subtle changes, but nonetheless he would be forced to make those changes.”

What Bryson DeChambeau would be like if he didn’t join LIV Golf from the PGA Tour

It was DeChambeau who shone brightest among the 15 full-time LIV Golf players who took on Quail Hollow last week.

Reserve player John Catlin was also involved, but missed the cut alongside the likes of Mickelson, Koepka and Dustin Johnson.

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And it was PGA Tour star Scheffler who ran away with the title, a scenario that perhaps still would have played out even if Rahm and DeChambeau were not playing LIV Golf.

The world number one was in unstoppable form in North Carolina, and looks really difficult to beat at this moment in time.

Continuing his analysis of the situation, Chamblee added: “And Bryson would not be able to get away with week in and week out going up against head to head with Scottie Scheffler, hitting his irons as poorly as he does.

“I am not sure the roll on the face of his irons, I’m not sure he wouldn’t have readdressed that. When you look at the shot that he hit on Saturday, and it hooked wildly into the water on the 17th hole, I’m not sure that’s not due to a toe strike or the roll which creates a gear effect which maybe augmented that big hook.

“But these are adjustments they would be forced to make if they were going head to head with Scheffler and Rory [McIlroy] every week, so I am happy enough to listen to the criticism of my comments.

“It’s an opinion but an opinion based on a significant amount of data and empirically watching how these guys play golf coming down the closing holes.”