Brandel Chamblee rants about golf’s state

Brandel Chamblee isn’t afraid to speak his mind – just ask Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods.

Both have incurred the wrath of the former PGA Tour player – now Golf Channel analyst – in recent times and last night, he went on a LONG Twitter rant about the current state of the game of golf.

Triggered by this Washington Post article, which the headline claimed ‘no one plays golf anymore’, Chamblee started by quote tweeting and then went on, and on, and on. Here is the full list of tweets below.

Read more -> Rory hits back at Chamblee over Tiger comparison

As I've written and said before the golf professional is the only hope this game has. They can teach the kids, cont.https://t.co/8JN4U5zo5e

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

To work through the problems of this game, when they have the time and the ability to master it's problems. The golf professional can, cont.

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

Teach the player about the joys of this game, with his many stories and patience and convince them it is a game worth learning, to take,cont

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

Time and the game will pay them back over the course of their life. What is wrong with golf? It has become unrecognizable from what it, cont

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

Once was. It has become too expensive, too slow and too complicated to understand the game and its rules. The golf pro can solve all of,cont

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

These problems.If only 12 % of those who play this game take lessons,the lessons r either too expensive or too difficult to understand,cont

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

So find the golf professionals who dont look at the range as the set of the Divinci code and he or she alone has the Fibonacci sequence.Cont

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

The golf professional is the physician to all that ails this game.Pay him or her what it's worth to have some who knows the game and can con

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

Spend the time on the range helping a kid here or there with their grip. Or this lady with her ball position or that man with his posture.

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

It was the golf professional that showed me how to play and convinced me it was worth my time so that perhaps I could get a scholarship.

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

High profiled tour teachers and product cycles and over complicated pre shot routines are not what golf is. Golf is a simple game. Cont

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

That as somebody said, is like measles and better caught young. Because in youth one is not afraid to imitate or copy a coach and that cont

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

Is how someone begins to improve In this game. The golf professional is the single greatest resource in this game. Find the men & women cont

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

Know this game and get them@on the ranges teaching kids and adults the nuances of this game and playing rounds with the members. Cont

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

And the juniors will begin to play&as they are the lifeblood of this game, they will give it new life.Again,all bc a Golf Pro gave them time

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

After heaping praise on club professionals, Chamblee then turned his attentions to the lengthy pre-shot routines today’s tour players have.

Watch a player /caddie exchange on tv and they discuss everything: wind, lie, landing, adrenaline and then the type of shot, all known, cont

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

within in a instant by the player but lauded by the commentator as good teamwork. This takes time and largely unnecessary and lauded as,cont

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

Good team work. Watch a player rehearse a backswing he knew when he was ten. Think about things he didn't think about even when he was ten.

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

All of this is called a process.Forget about playing,golf takes a long time TO WATCH Then watch the plyr change clubs from ones that worked

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

To newer ones that are twenty yards longer ( yardage that won't be found In statistics) that make obsolete the clubs they played last year.

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

And then the cost…

Nobody wants to be told what they just spent $600 on is obsolete. Nobody wants to pay 150$ for a lesson. Nobody wants to pay 200$ for a 5

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

Hour round. But the golf professional will get you in the right clubs &keep you there and he will give the right lesson for almost nothing &

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

Because he went with you a few times you know how to play, find balls, take the trap etc… And the game is fun. Convert begets a convert.

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

Pay the Golf Professional what he or she what they are worth, more than you think they r worth and it is the surest investment golf can make

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

And the final tweet? Well, just look at that hashtag – ‘a game I no longer recognise’…

Because players will stick. #okayimdonerantingaboutagameinolongerrecognize#bringbackthegolfpro #andgethimontherange #becausethatisgold

— brandel chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 7, 2016

Follow @BunkeredOnline

Brandel Chamblee :: Do you agree?

Do you agree with Chamblee in his rant about the current state of the game? Leave your thoughts in the ‘Comments’ section below.