“I was pleading with the head of the R&A for you” - Brandel Chamblee has friendly banter with fellow analyst on Halloween

Golf Channel's analyst and commentator Brandel Chamblee had a friendly banter with fellow analyst Eamon Lynch on Halloween Eve. Lynch is the co-host of Golf Today on Golf Channel.

The banter started when Lynch posted a flashback on X about a past Halloween when he dressed as a "grey-haired blowhard" and joked that someone else appeared in the same costume. Along with the post, he posted a picture of himself and Chamblee. Lynch also took a shot at Chamblee's golf skills in the post. He wrote:

"Flashing back to that Halloween when I dressed as grey-haired blowhard who can’t play worth a lick, then someone else showed up in the same costume. (smile emoji)"

In response to the tweet, Brandel Chamblee teased Lynch about his lack of skill in golf. He said that this picture was taken during the times when he was requesting the R&A (the leading body in the world of golf) to give him extra shots just to hit the fairway. He wrote:

"Actually, this was when I was pleading with the head of the R&A for you to be able to hit ten mulligans off the first tee at St Andrews so you could at least start with a "fairway hit.""

Notably, Brandel Chamblee is a former professional golfer and has four professional wins. He also has one win on the PGA Tour which came at the 1998 Greater Vancouver Open. Lynch, meanwhile, has been a golf writer for more than two decades. His bio on his website reads:

"Only golfer from Northern Ireland without a major title."

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LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman responds to Brandel Chamblee for criticizing low ratings

Golf Channel commentator and former professional golfer Brandel Chamblee recently attacked LIV Golf's low ratings. After the LIV Golf Chicago, Josh Carpenter of Sports Business Journal posted the viewership numbers from the tournament.

Quoting his tweet, Brandel Chamblee attacked the Saudi-backed Tour, writing:

"Despite billions of dollars for golf megastars, LIV remains in the witness protection program of sports viewership. Partly because they are trying to “scale” the county-fair motleyness of the 16th hole at the WM Phoenix Open and the Seve-like passion of the RyderCup, they fail, not least for the lack of innovation of their ideas but also for the origin of their investment."

LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman responded to Chamblee's critique of low LIV Golf ratings while the LIV Golf Team Championship in Dallas was going on. He said (via FlushingIt Golf):

“No matter where we’ve gone in the world, we’ve seen our audience space go up. We’re in 450 million households every year, in 190 different countries. So think where we were thirty five events ago, to where we are today, thirty five weeks into it."

"We've shown to the people, the world, and to the golf ecosystem that we are truly additive to it. And that was important for all of us to get through what went through for a couple of years," he added.

LIV Golf started in 2022. The rival league to the PGA Tour in its inaugural season had 16 of the top 100 players and boasted great prize money. Players like Dustin Johnson, Louis Oosthuizen, Talor Gooch, Sergio Garcia, Richard Bland, Shaun Norris, Matt Jones, Pablo Larrazabal, and Phil Mickelson joined the Saudi-backed series in 2022 and continue to play on it.