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Nick Faldo can still let it fly with the best of them.
Faldo, a six-time major champion and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, teed off Bryson DeChambeau. The 68-year-old golfer criticized the LIV Golf star for his strategy, or lack thereof, on the golf course ahead of the Open at Royal Birkdale.
“That’s a whole part of the story, how they’re superstars on LIV and then they come and can’t do it. So that’s another story. Then they’re superstars again. He, I’ll tell him to his face, has no idea about strategy,” Faldo told Pak Gazette.
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Bryson DeChambeau during a practice round for the US Open golf tournament in Southampton, New York (Bill Streicher/Image Images)
The three-time Open champion referenced a quote from DeChambeau from a year ago, citing the 32-year-old’s strategic error.
“He said it last year, I think, on TV: ‘I’m going to go out and attack the links.’ Well, I’ve never attacked any links. You thread it, right? You feed it down the street,” Faldo said.
“You look at the mounds and whatever and you think, ‘If I send it in and feed it, it comes back into play.’ You don’t think, ‘I’ll bomb it down there, I can’t see where I’m going, it’s 20 yards wide.’ Oh yeah, good luck.”
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Tom Watson and Nick Faldo walk on the sixth green during the Par 3 Contest at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. (Peter Casey/Image Images)
Faldo criticized DeChambeau for his stubbornness and unwillingness to alter his strategy.
“I mean, in all of this, even if you hit it fantastic, it lands on the corner of a divot, you still miss the fairway. So, you have to think, how do I get it in the short grass? It’s very important, and he’s going to get up and keep bombing,” Faldo said.
DeChambeau has had an inauspicious start to this important season, having missed the cut at the Masters, US Open and PGA Championship. DeChambeau qualified for this year’s Open Championship after finishing in the top 10 last year.
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Bryson DeChambeau reacts after his putt on the 13th green during the first round of the US Open golf tournament in Southampton, New York. (Bill Streicher/Image Images)
He will have to prove Faldo wrong and change his game in the early rounds of the Open in order to make the cut at a major tournament this year.
DeChambeau also needs to perform well in golf’s final major of the year if he wants to earn anything close to the mammoth $500 million deal he’s reportedly seeking at the expiration of his contract with LIV Golf.
