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Bryson DeChambeau opens up on harsh criticism: ‘It’s tough to see’

admin — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:35:28 +0000

Bryson DeChambeau is back in action for the first time since his ugly missed cut at the 2026 PGA Championship. Ahead of this week’s LIV Golf Korea event, and amid continued speculation on LIV Golf’s future, the two-time major winner offered wide-ranging comments on where his game and LIV’s push for new investors stand.

In addition to revealing the simplest and “best” way he can contribute to LIV Golf’s survival, DeChambeau opened up on the “tough” criticism he’s received recently, and how that criticism has impacted him personally as well as his future plans.

DeChambeau reveals how he can help LIV survive: ‘Giving all I can’

DeChambeau has spoken often since Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund chose to pull future funding from LIV Golf.

At times, DeChambeau has flirted with the idea of a PGA Tour return. Often in the same response, he’s lofted the idea of giving up pro golf and becoming a full-time YouTube creator.

But on Monday at the 2026 LIV Golf Korea event in Busan, South Korea, DeChambeau sounded like he was fully on board with helping LIV Golf secure its future existence.

He revealed he was “surprised” by the PIF’s decision to abandon LIV Golf so suddenly, but he also expressed “optimism” in LIV’s business model.

“We were surprised that [the PIF] pulled out as quickly as they did. We didn’t really see that coming,” DeChambeau said on Monday. “But that’s okay. One door closes, another opens. I think that’s the way a lot of us are looking at it. I think we all have optimism that there is a business plan that makes sense for team golf. I’d quite honestly actually — how do I say it? I’m very optimistic with the business plan of team golf compared to other models, in my opinion.”

“But again, other models have worked as well, so I’m not going to say that one is better than the other, but I do see value in what team golf can provide not only worldwide but also in grass rooting the game of golf,” he continued. “National support, team national support, city local support, we grass root ourselves there. There’s a couple ideas that we have — quite a few ideas that we have that could be interesting.”

While DeChambeau was speaking to LIV Golf’s team format, and how that could be attractive to fans and successful financially, LIV Golf’s current business plan is simple: find big-money investors fast or go out of business. Bryson spoke to that as well.

“We’ll see if investors like it or not,” he said. “I’m giving all I can to make it happen, and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t happen.”

When asked specifically how Bryson can help LIV Golf in its mission to find new funding, DeChambeau said “ultimately it’s up to the executives,” while his most important roles are to play his best this week, sign autographs and “have a good time.”

“I go out there on the first tee on Thursday and hit a beautiful drive down the middle of the fairway, hopefully. That’s what we’re focused on. In the background, yeah, we’re trying to help where we can, but ultimately it’s up to executives and everybody banding together. If we all band together, there’s an opportunity here. If not, it’s going to be a different day for all of us,” DeChambeau said. “But for me, how I support, go out and hit a great drive on the first tee, play a great round of golf, sign autographs after and have a good time.”

Bryson DeChambeau thanks ‘tough’ critics for fueling ‘positive fire’

DeChambeau was a divisive figure in pro golf long before LIV Golf arrived. When he gave the upstart league its biggest boost by joining up in 2022, criticism increased.

LIV Golf’s recent funding issues and his own sometimes bizarre and contradictory comments about his own future plans have resulted in more criticism for DeChambeau. Missed cuts at the first two majors of the year haven’t helped Bryson’s case.

When asked how he deals with such an onslaught of negativity in his LIV Golf Korea press conference, DeChambeau spoke at length, declaring his “respect” for everyone’s opinion, even if those opinions conclude that he’s “the worst thing for golf.”

“I respect everybody’s opinion on me. I respect everybody that says that I’m the worst thing for golf or I’m the best thing for golf. It’s okay,” DeChambeau said.

He went on to explain that criticism doesn’t “distract” him from his greater “mission” to help the game, and that he cares about golf so much because he’s seen “what it can do for people’s lives.”

“The reality is I’m so focused on what I can do for the game that somebody saying something online or to me personally in my face is not going to distract me from the mission that I have,” DeChambeau explained. “I hope can understand that, that my goal is bigger than just winning every tournament every single week. Do I want to win every week? 100 percent. Do I care about the game sometimes more than my own life? Yeah. Because I see what it can do for people’s lives. That’s ultimately why I care so much and I’m so passionate and I want the best for everybody.”

DeChambeau also thanked his critics, because while he admitted the criticism is “tough to see,” it also provides him with “inspiration” and helps him make decisions in his life.

“So when people are saying these things about me, I know my mission. I know what I’m here to do. Sometimes it’s tough to see, but sometimes it’s an inspiration for me. Fuels positive fire in my stomach. I have to honestly thank everybody because it’s what helps me make the next decision in my life, in a positive way. It’s never a negative,” he said. “I never try to do things in spite or out of non-caring about things or people or anybody else. The other side, this side, doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, we’re just playing golf. We’re just hitting a ball into a hole 450 yards away, sometimes longer.”

He continued: “I think people love to say something, and you have to respect that. I think everybody’s opinion is valid. All I can do is continue to be the best every single day that I can, whether I win tournaments out here, I win majors or don’t win majors or finish dead last out here. It doesn’t matter to me, as long as I’m working as hard as I can and giving as much as I can, that’s all that really matters.

“I hope that I can look over and see a kid looking up smiling at me so I can go sign an autograph because that is what makes me come back every day.”

The 2026 LIV Golf Korea event kicks off this Thursday. DeChambeau gets his next opportunity to break his major missed-cut streak in a few weeks’ time at the 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, where he’ll be hunting for his third title.

“I’m really excited for the future over at Shinnecock and overseas, as well, for the Open Championship,” DeChambeau said to close out his press conference. “Head down, keep moving forward.”

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Scottie Scheffler opens up on parents. And how mom never asked 1 question

admin — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:08:22 +0000

Scottie Scheffler is talking about scores.

This is PGA Championship week, after all, but this story is about a junior event he’d played in when he was 12. It was a qualifying event, he explained, and you could either take your result and enter that week’s main tournament, or use it in the future. But Scheffler’s dad, Scott, didn’t make it an either/or proposition. His son could play only in the qualifier. No tournament that week. The family had to be somewhere.

Deal. Scott dropped off Scottie. Scottie played. Scottie called him when it was over.

“He goes, ‘I don’t like this. This is not something I want to hear,’” the younger Scheffler said Tuesday at Aronimink Golf Club, the PGA’s host. “I said, ‘Well, dad, I won the qualifier.’ So if I win the qualifier, I get into the tournament, and I get to save the exemption. So I’m like, I got to play in the tournament.

“He’s like, ‘Scottie, I told you, you can’t play in the tournament. I’m like, ‘But dad, I won.’”

Of course, he’d remember that story.

He was just listening to his mother.

Scheffler had been asked in his pre-PGA press conference for advice for young golfers and their parents, and he said his parents never pushed him. They’d drop him off with coach Randy Smith, and he was off.

“I think there were more important things for them than my golf game,” Scheffler said. “I think growing up, especially when you look at youth sports today, I think you see a lot of parents that are overzealous. That’s not from a place where they don’t care. I think they want their kids to have success. I think they want them to do well. I think sometimes pushing them towards something is the best way to do it.

“Maybe it isn’t in some cases, but I think I did my best when my parents would drop me off at the golf course and let me do my thing. One of the first things that Randy taught my dad is when Scottie gets to the golf course, he takes his own bag off the golf cart, he sets up his own area. He doesn’t need you out there, this is his thing. I think they did a good job of guiding me along, helping me when I need help, but not pushing me to be anything other than a good student and a good person. It wasn’t all about golf with them.”

And his mom, Diane, did one that was “interesting,” he said. She had a rule.

“She never asked me what I shot,” Scheffler said. “She said, ‘If you want me to know what you shot, you’ll tell me.

“‘I don’t have to ask you what you shot.’”

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Good advice, and the benefits are clear. Later in the press conference, Scheffler talked about how he’s internally focused and how he enjoys improving, and you can see where that took root. Still, you’re curious.

Did Scheffler play in that junior tournament?

And how’d he do?

He remembered that, too.

“So he ends up letting me play in the tournament,” Scheffler said, “and I remember calling him when the tournament ended, because the tournament was a couple of hours away, and he had to leave me there for a period of time. I was like 12 years old. He’s probably not going to be happy me telling this story.

“I called him after the tournament, because the tournament ended, everything’s cleaned up, and he’s not going to be back for another hour or two. So I’m just out practicing after the tournament. I called him, ‘Well, dad’ — I told him what I shot, finished fifth. Now I’m fully exempt. We don’t have to worry about the qualifiers anymore. He’s like, ‘OK, great. I’ll be there in a couple hours.’”

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Under Armour opens Performance Centre at Stoke Park

admin — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:16:52 +0000

Under Armour Golf has unveiled its new Golf Footwear Performance Centre at Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire, offering a ‘Footwear Optimisation Process’ that promises to match golfers with their ideal shoes for maximum performance.

The custom-fitting service combines BiomecaForce AI-driven force plates, Launch Monitor data, and SIDAS Podiatech foot analysis to assess swing mechanics, foot anatomy, and force generation.

Players receive tailored recommendations from the brand’s Drive Pro Series, complete with on-site built custom insoles.

At the launch on July 29, Under Armour EMEA Managing Director Kevin Ross called it “the most advanced athlete performance tracking technology in golf.”

DP World Tour rising star Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen tested the system, gaining 2.5mph in clubhead speed and a 5% increase in peak vertical force.

Neergaard-Petersen said: “The whole process has been eye-opening and has led to some crucial gains for me, including an increase of peak vertical force of 5%.

“The level of feedback is incredible and should make a lot of golfers think about how beneficial shoe optimisation can be.”

Each two-hour session costs £500 and includes bio-mechanical testing, a pair of Drive Pro shoes, and custom insoles.

Bookings can be made through Head of Footwear Optimisation Chris Murtagh at Stoke Park at cmurtagh@stokepark.co.uk

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True Spec North Georgia Opens at Governors Towne Club

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:52:20 +0000

New location in one of the area’s most vibrant communities is now open and offering golfers elite club fitting experiences

ACWORTH, GA – True Spec Golf, the global leader in custom club fitting and club building, is opening its newest location at Governors Towne Club. True Spec North Georgia has moved from its original location in Cartersville and is now open to the public and booking appointments for fittings. This undertaking is the latest in a growing number of partnerships that brings True Spec’s bespoke fittings and best-in-class customer service to prominent venues around the country.

True Spec North Georgia is home to one of True Spec’s signature state-of-the-art mobile fitting units and is slated to become a full indoor-to-outdoor studio in the future. The premium facility utilizes Foresight GCQuad technology and features True Spec’s brand-agnostic fitting matrix of over 70,000 clubhead and shaft combinations from every major equipment manufacturer. That functionality enables True Spec’s master club fitters with the ability to find the best equipment to improve a player’s game. Each club is custom built at True Spec’s Scottsdale headquarters to the exact specifications derived from the club fitting process.

“Over the past three years, hundreds of golfers in the North Georgia area have taken advantage of our Tour-level fittings and have raised their game as a result,” said Scott Anderson, President of True Spec Golf. “We’re happy to now continue to provide the highest level of service in the industry at our new home at Governors Towne Club.”

Governors Towne Club, which was recently acquired by Evergreen Partners, is a fully private luxury gated development with nearly 300 custom-built estate homes. At the heart of the community lies an 18-hole championship golf course masterfully designed by Curtis Strange. In addition to the expansive 84,000 square-foot campus, members and residents also enjoy a resort-style aquatics center, eight lighted tennis courts, and a full-service spa and fitness center. Evergreen Partners has recently added on site lodging, pickleball courts, reimagined children and youth areas, golf simulators, and has made numerous improvements to the golf course.

“We pride ourselves on offering relentless hospitality and one of Georgia’s most memorable golf experiences,” said Chandler Graham, Director of Membership at Governors Towne Club. “Having True Spec’s master fitters on site now is another great way for us to elevate our services for every one of our members and their guests.”

Consistently ranked by GOLF Magazine and Golf Digest as one of America’s top club fitters, True Spec’s master builders are the nation’s undisputed leader in luxury club fitting.

True Spec North Georgia is located at 4545 Champions Walk Dr, Acworth, GA. Fitting sessions range from $125 to $375 for a full bag fitting. To book a custom fitting appointment, golfers can visit https://www.truespecgolf.com/.

About Governors Towne Club

Governors Towne Club is home to a Curtis Strange-designed golf course, with homes priced from $900,000 to $4 million, a spa and fitness center that rivals those found at any major resort, a tennis and aquatic club, and an on-site town retail center. Built in 2002 as a new urban community, Governors Towne Club is now a fully private club situated on 735 verdant acres with views of the north Georgia mountains and recently underwent an ownership change, with Evergreen Partners investing over $1 million in improvements. For more information about Governors Towne Club visit www.governorstowneclub.com or call 770-966-5353.

About True Spec Golf

True Spec Golf is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. The premium brand-agnostic club fitting company was founded in 2014 and now has 44 studios around the world. True Spec Golf’s fitting matrix stocks more than 70,000 possible combinations of club heads and shafts from all leading equipment manufacturers. Their expertise has been validated by some of the most well-known PGA, LPGA and Champions Tour players around the world. True Spec Golf strives to offer the best possible experience, providing every player with clubs that maximize their potential and performance.

True Spec Golf is part of the 8AM Golf family that was established by businessman, philanthropist and golf entrepreneur Howard Milstein as the holding company that oversees his golf businesses — all of which are dedicated to helping golfers at every level enjoy the game more. Renowned entertainer and golf enthusiast Justin Timberlake partnered with 8AM Golf in 2020 and is now leading creative initiatives across the 8AM portfolio of companies.

Other 8AM companies include: GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com, the #1 media brands in golf; Nicklaus Companies, the most renowned brand in golf; legendary handmade club maker Miura Golf; Club-Conex, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of adjustable golf club adapter systems; Fairway Jockey, which provides golfers with the ability to buy custom clubs online; 3’s, which combines a fun atmosphere and top-notch hospitality with a quality par-3 course and putting area; T-Squared Social (in partnership with Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake), a dynamic new concept in food, drink and sports entertainment; Bounty Club (in collaboration with Justin Timberlake), an exclusive 18-hole golf course project near downtown Nashville, and Chirp, a free-to-play gaming app that lets golfers virtually wager on the outcome of pro golf tournaments, rounds, and shots.

For more information, visit www.truespecgolf.com.

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