Brandel Chamblee brutally tears into Jon Rahm and LIV Golf with comical ‘sideshow’ dig

Outspoken LIV Golf critic Brandel Chamblee has slammed Jon Rahm for his move to the breakaway tour, saying the two-time major champion has signed a “Faustian pact”

Pundit Brandel Chamblee has accused Jon Rahm of selling his soul to join LIV Golf, relegating himself to a “sideshow vaudeville act” in the sport.

The NBC broadcaster says two-time major winner Rahm and his LIV Golf colleagues have marked a “Faustian settlement”, giving up freedom as a part of the PGA Tour in return for Saudi Middle eastern wealth. The Spaniard marked a contract within the locale of £400million with the breakaway visit in December, getting to be LIV’s most high-profile capture since it shaped in 2022.

The alliance is bankrolled by the Saudi Middle eastern Open Speculation Finance (PIF), and marked players including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka to gigantic bargains, with the reward of tremendous prize stores on offer at its occasions. Chamblee has ended up an increasingly divisive figure within the wrangle about over LIV’s put within the golf environment and has as often as possible hammered the visit and its players for the harm he feels they have caused the wear.

Chamblee, 61, accepts Rahm has misplaced his status as one of golf’s superpowers since turning his back on the PGA Tour, instead becoming part of a “vaudeville act” – a ridiculous arrange appear prevalent within the Joined together States within the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Talking to previous PGA Visit star Scott Verplank on his podcast, Chamblee considers Rahm knows he has sold out. The candid broadcaster said:
“The music was blasting, he had shorts on, and he was getting beautiful pissy around some person taking a picture of him within the center of his swing.

“And it fair hit me. It fair hit me…. and I thought, this fellow went from basically having a lead part within The Back up parent to presently being a sideshow vaudeville act.

“And all these players, it appears to me, figure it out that they’ve all made a Faustian settlement. All of them. They’ve all sold their free nature. Autonomous temporary workers is what they were alluded to when playing the PGA Visit.

“When they were autonomous they might go wherever they needed, play any visit they needed, play at any time they needed, were free to skip any occasion they needed and they were lovely much able to say and do anything they needed. But presently, they’re not.”

Rahm made his LIV debut last month in Mexico and he has wrapped up third, eighth and fifth in three appearances so distant. The ruling Aces winner had already demanded he would remain with the PGA Visit and was not inquisitive about joining LIV.

But his shocking move to the breakaway visit in December was a seismic minute within the fight between the equal competitions, striking a tremendous blow to the PGA Visit and sparking fears of an departure of players joining LIV within the coming months.

Rahm clarified his choice final month. “I do not need to skip through this point cause there’s no point, there’s a huge alter within the way the golfers get compensated. I’d be lying in the event that it wasn’t a huge portion of it,” he said. “In a nutshell, I’m getting paid more to play the same don and have more time. I do not know approximately most individuals but that sounds great to me.”

Rahm included that the system understanding between the PGA Visit and PIF that will see the substances work together, which was reported final summer but is however to be completed, was moreover portion of his choice to join LIV.