Bryson DeChambeau says he cares “deeply” about team golf.
And that LIV Golf’s business model “makes a lot of sense.”
And that the LIV Golf “2.0” model makes “complete financial sense”.
No, the two-time US Open winner has not publicly said whether it will rejoin the league after the loss of its primary backer, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and the exit of several players following the announcement that it plans to be reconfigured.
But, during a recent interview on the show “Figuring Out with Raj Shamani”, DeChambeau certainly did not defeat stumping for the league in which he played from 2022. Without him, the future of LIV is doubtful, at best.
“It has to be done right,” he said. “And this will be a league that hopefully exists forever. It’s not competitive. We’re not trying to compete against the Tour. We want to be creative.
“We want to bring value anywhere and everywhere in the golf market around the world.”
Through the two and a half interview – which you can see in full here – DeChambeau talked about many other topics, including his father, the mistakes he made, and his life as a pro golfer. Below are six additional recipes, listed in order of when the comments were made.
1. The weight gain was a mistake
In the words of DeChambeau, when he wondered for a moment in his life that he was wrong: “When I was trying to hit the ball much farther, I went on an eating trip and consumed as much food as possible to get as big as possible because I thought that more mass, heavier weight meant that I could hit it farther. It was not right. It was much more about the fast-twitch muscles and the development of fast-twitch muscles. And that was a big negative thing for this health journey, actually, I went a lot on the health journey. of food, things that it was really sensitive to my body and it made me overweight and I didn’t feel really good And I won the US Open in 2020 because of that, because I got stronger and stronger, but it wasn’t because of the food I ate and I got faster after that.”
Also in DeChambeau’s words: “When I reached a level where I was three times the risk of a heart attack – I reached that level as a 27-, 28-year-old – I said to my doctor: “We have to change something. We have to understand something “. So I got a chef and we started eating healthy food relative to my sensitivities, like all my blood sensitivities. And I lost 24 pounds in 30 days.”
Much has been made of DeChambeau’s weight gain following the restart of pro golf in 2020 following the Covid hiatus. But on the podcast, he admitted it was a mistake — and an unhealthy one for him. The weight loss is also amazing.
2. What DeChambeau did that made him feel like people hated him
In DeChambeau’s words, when asked what made him feel that people hated him: “There was a moment of slow play where I took a while to hit a putt and people called me out for slow play, which is a frustrating thing because I’m not necessarily the slowest player. On the greens, I’m very slow, but everywhere else I’m really fast. So, I’m pretty average when it comes to a professional golfer. And if not, I’ve said faster than five years, and then I’ve said faster than five years. my driver suckedit wasn’t too big. And then when I hit myself in the face with a rope because one of the security guards accidentally dropped it on me and I went under and it caught my eye and hit my eye. I got really frustrated. I play golf badly. This is peak 2022 and it caught my eye and cut part of my cornea. Actually, nobody really knows, but it looked like I was – and I’m going to curse here, so sorry – it looked like I was ab***h. I feel like one, too.”
All the above incidents made headlines and did the rounds on social media. On the show, DeChambeau also said he appreciates joking because it reminds him of “the humanity that exists.”
3. The feeling of loneliness
In DeChambeau’s words when asked about being single after the 2024 US Open: “I don’t have a family. I don’t have children. I don’t have a wife. It’s one of those things where I had the trophy (2024 US Open) right next to my bed, and I’ll never forget that we had a great party, we all had fun and went to bed. It’s hard to sleep, by the way – your endorphins are still six hours and you sleep. wake up and you’ll see, I won the US Open, and then, say, I don’t have my family with me, and it’s not a real moment of fragility, because your life tells you that it’s the goal Most of my life for this, I gave up 20 years of my life, and I did it, and I don’t have anyone by my side and give me a kiss and hold my hand and all I want to do for my life? understand what life is really about.
The comment was one of the most revealing of the show – and it brought to mind Scottie Scheffler’s comments ahead of the 2024 Open Championship.
4. DeChambeau said he felt depressed
In DeChambeau’s words: “I felt depressed. Like there were times where I was very much on the edge of not going to a really great place and I had to be away many times from other people who cared a lot about me and I love those people today.”
During the show, DeChambeau said the feelings came while he was playing early in his professional career, then again in 2019 and in late 2021 and early 2022.
5. An emotional conversation with his father
In DeChambeau’s words, after the death of his father, Jon, in 2022: “I felt it and I went out and I had a 30-minute conversation with him personally in heaven and I saw him and I felt him up there and we made peace with each other. And we were good with each other. It was a really sad moment but cool because there were many things that I wanted to say to him that I couldn’t say to him because he was just in real life. wonderful to hear that, even now, it makes me so emotional because as much as we have we fought and fought each other, and it was not good.
Even in DeChambeau’s words, after being asked what he wanted to say to his father: “Well, I told him how much a piece of you know what it was for me and I was true with that and that I forgave him for that. It makes me cry every time I say it because it’s just the truest thing ever. And yes, to everyone who holds grudges and things, just forgive them. Who cares? You have a life without people. You might as well live with a grudge.”
Throughout the interview, DeChambeau talked about the influence of his father, and again, to watch the whole show, you can do it by clicking. here.
6. DeChambeau wants to play golf – beyond Earth
In DeChambeau’s words: “I want to go to the moon. Maybe hit a shot. Be the second person to play on the moon. Or Mars. Maybe the first shot on Mars. I don’t know. It would be fun. I’d love to do it.”
Interesting.
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