Brandel Chamblee gives his theory why Tiger Woods has never won at Riviera in his career

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The fact that Tiger Woods has never won at Riviera is one of golf’s greatest mysteries.

Woods isn’t the only great player who has never succeeded at Riviera. Rory McIlroy and current world number one Scottie Scheffler have never managed it.

Meanwhile, the great Jack Nicklaus never recorded a victory at Riviera either.

Woods is the greatest golfer of all time in the eyes of many golf fans but his struggles at Riviera throughout his career have been a total enigma.

He did record two runner-up finishes and three top-5s, but never managed to get over the line at the Genesis Invitational.

But why? Woods’ game was a perfect fit for every golf course on the planet, wasn’t it?

Brandel Chamblee shares why Tiger Woods never won at Riviera

Chamblee spoke about Tiger’s failure to win at Riviera during his appearance on the Dan on Golf Show on Monday.

He was asked why he believes the man whom many refer to as the greatest of all time never managed to get the job done at Riviera.

“Well, Tiger, you know, I think it’s a difficult golf course to come out of the trees on, because, you know, you can’t run it up to Kikuyu,“ Chamblee suggested.

“You know, it just, it’s not conducive to that style of scrambling.

“And also, nobody’s good enough to chase an angle. You end up with an angle by accident. Nobody would risk a dispersion cone of their misses to gain an angle. Nobody would.

“But I’m not saying that angles are not important at Riviera.

“On three, you drive it in the right rough and you go anywhere near that, you’re not going to hit that green. You’re just not gonna hit it. You know, if you’re down the left side, you got a chance to hit it.

“The greens are so small and so protective.

“And, you know, with Scottie, I’d say it’s a small sample size. If you played there 10 times, Scottie’s gonna win three of them, at this point.

“Rory drives it in the rough a lot, and he’s not great out of the rough. Tiger drove it in the rough a lot, and I’d say it’s hard to scramble.

“At Riviera, out of the rough, you can’t run it up in Kikuyu. You hit it short, it stops. You land it on the green, it goes over.

“So, you know, those are the only ways I think you could argue that point.

“Having said that, you know, Tiger played some good golf there.“

Brandel Chamblee makes Jack Nicklaus point

The fact that Tiger failed to win at Riviera throughout his career is truly baffling.

However, Chamblee is more shocked by the fact that Nicklaus never succeeded in Pacific Palisades.

“I think it’s more important or more bizarre to me that Jack Nicklaus didn’t win there,“ Chamblee noted when speaking on the Dan on Golf Show.

“As Jack, you know, again, we don’t have data. I wish we did, but just on the data we have from him from 1980, nobody’s ever hit it as long or as straight as Jack Nicklaus.

“And that, by a long way, includes Tiger Woods and Scottie Scheffler, and any other great driver that you could throw up in the last almost 50 years.“

In fairness to Chamblee, his theory about how difficult it is to chase balls up onto the greens from the rough with the Kikuyu grass guarding the front aprons of the putting surfaces.

That said, it would be a shock if Scheffler never wins at Riviera.

He is a far better driver of the golf ball than Tiger Woods ever was and it is highly likely that the current world number one will find a way to win the Genesis Invitational before he hangs up his clubs.