LIV Golf Hater Brandel Chamblee Goes Off on Jon Rahm: ‘Self-delusion’

LIV Golf hater Brandel Chamblee said that Jon Rahm has many talents, but none “seem to exceed his gift for self-delusion” in a recent tirade on X.

Chamblee has made it evident over the past several years that he does not necessarily align with the idea that LIV Golf is good for the professional game. However, he seemed to take one major issue with Rahm, the 2023 Masters Champion who defected to LIV in December of the same year.

Chamblee put out several lengthy posts on the state of professional golf recently, but none was more controversial than his synopsis on Rahm:

“This past year, after Jon Rahm’s defection to LIV in late 2023, the dominos were supposed to fall, forcing the hand of the PGA Tour, a deal between the two tours was presumed to be imminent. Now as a golfer, Rahm has many talents but none seem to exceed his gift for self-delusion. Turns out he was not the impetus to change, although Trump’s election is likely to have more of an impact in that regard, than Rahm’s defection.”

Rahm’s decision to leave the PGA TOUR was seen as a gutshot to the TOUR when it happened. Many thought it would be a catalyst to a deal between the TOUR and LIV’s financier, the Saudi PIF, getting done. 

It wasn’t.

This past year, after Jon Rahm’s defection to LIV in late 2023, the dominos were supposed to fall, forcing the hand of the PGA Tour, a deal between the two tours was presumed to be imminent. Now as a golfer, Rahm has many talents but none seem to exceed his gift for… pic.twitter.com/gPg9DHXSGG

— Brandel Chamblee (@chambleebrandel) December 28, 2024

Evidently, there are a lot of things that need to happen in order for golf to be reunited as a whole in 2025. Many PGA TOUR golfers said they expected a deal to get done in 2024, but with only a few days left in the year, it seems unlikely.

With that being said, this is far from the first time that Chamblee has said something controversial about the game of golf or one of its players.

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