Bryson DeChambeau came away impressed with Donald Trump’s golf skills.
The LIV Tour pro played a round with the 45th president for his popular “Break 50” web series in July, drawing more than 11,785,000 viewers to the hour-long video — and raising a quarter of a million dollars for the Wounded Warrior Project — and shooting 22-under over 18 holes in a scramble.
Despite the gaudy numbers, it was a much lower set of numbers that caught DeChambeau’s attention — namely Trump’s irons.
“Man, his iron play was great,” he told Golf.com. “I can’t tell you the number of times he stuffed it on the green within 30 feet of regulation. His driver swing is the most repeatable thing I have ever seen. I wish mine was that repeatable. Really, I do.”
DeChambeau was criticized for the Trump round in some circles — “It’s sad some people feel that way,” he said — but it wasn’t his first foray into the political side of golf.
He famously used a Trump-branded bag on the course, played alongside the presidential candidate in pro-ams and gifted him a set of clubs.
DeChambeau also offered to broker a golf game between Trump and Biden after they bickered over the topic during their June debate.
“Politicians are divisive figures for sure,” DeChambeau said at a LIV tournament in England in July, “And I respect and understand that. I think showing the content side of it, creating content, was the most important thing that we were trying to accomplish there and raising a lot of money for charity. Those two things combined, that’s where we were focused on. Trying to take the politics all out of it and just going, Let’s create some amazing fun content for people to see some cool, fun, entertaining shots.”
He’s revealed that Bill Clinton is seemingly a dream guest for the “Break 50” series.
“We have formally reached out to his people and are awaiting a response,” DeChambeau told Golf.com. “That would be great.”
Whether Clinton could reach the same viewership heights as Trump is debatable at best — DeChambeau’s follow-up round with John Daly has 4.7 million — but it’s pretty clear that DeChambeau is always game to play.