Bryson DeChambeau open to golf with Kamala Harris

Having blown up YouTube with his Donald Trump video, Bryson DeChambeau says he’d welcome the opportunity to play 18 holes with the other presidential candidate, presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

US Open champion DeChambeau’s round with Trump has clocked up more than six million views in less than 48 hours.

It has been the No.1 trending video on YouTube, earning the two-time major winner more than 300,000 new subscribers to his channel in the process.

Speaking ahead of this week’s LIV event at JCB Golf & Country Club in Staffordshire, DeChambeau was asked about the video.

“First off, it’s an honour to play with anybody of that type of influence, no matter who it is on any political side,” he said.

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“This whole content piece was about delivering some unique, different content on YouTube. We wanted to showcase the golf abilities of any influential person, and he was definitely up on a list that I wanted to showcase.

“We were able to call out and ask him to play, and he said yeah, absolutely. He’s obviously a figure that can pull a lot of views, and we thought it would be great to showcase his golfing ability, and he’s a pretty good golfer.

“It was a lot of fun to do, and it took a little bit, but we got it approved and it was fun to shoot. It happened in three days. I think we did it on July 6 on Saturday, so it was a few weeks before all the stuff [the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Trump] went down, and yeah, it was a great time.

“We had a blast, and again, I look forward to doing a lot more of those with other influential people.”

One of those people could, according to DeChambeau, be Harris, former US president Barack Obama or “anyone else on that side”.

“I’m more than willing to play with them,” he said. “I have no issues whatsoever. The thing about golf is that the more we can utilise golf to bring everyone together in a cool way, I think that’s the vision of the global game of golf.

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“Inspiring a younger generation is huge for me, and that’s why I think this YouTube space is so cool because it really shows everyone’s true side. That’s what I’m trying to accomplish, and it’s definitely helped me on that regard, and I can’t wait to hopefully do it with others.”

The timing of the video is certainly interesting, considering the positive change in public opinion towards DeChambeau. The American’s star has seldom burned brighter, which begs the question: did he have any hesitation in creating content and being seen to align with as polarising an individual as Trump, or any politician for that matter.

“Politicians are divisive figures for sure and I respect and understand that,” he said. “I think showing the content side of it, creating content, was the most important thing we were trying to accomplish there and raising a lot of money for charity.

“Those two things combined, that’s where we were focused, 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.”

As much as he enjoyed his round with Trump, however, DeChambeau insists he has no political aspirations of his own.

“DJT said he’d never do it, and he’s obviously doing it now,” he added. “You never know the position of things, and they may change down the road, but for me, probably not. I don’t think so. I’m going to play golf for the rest of my life. I’ll stick to my golf lane.”

Michael McEwan is bunkered's Head of Content and has been part of the team since 2004. In that time, he has interviewed almost every major figure within the sport, from Jack Nicklaus, to Rory McIlroy, to Donald Trump. The host of the multi award-winning bunkered Podcast and a member of Balfron Golfing Society, Michael is the author of three books and is the 2023 PPA Scotland 'Writer of the Year' and 'Columnist of the Year'. Dislikes white belts, yellow balls and iron headcovers. Likes being drawn out of the media ballot to play Augusta National.

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