LIV Golf critic Brandel Chamblee told he's biggest hypocrite yet over 'unfathomable' comments

Brandel Chamblee says he has changed his mind over how he views LIV's mastermind Yasir Al-Rumayyan after playing golf with Donald Trump.

Chamblee has been one of the most vocal critics of the breakaway tour since its inception in 2022. 

The former PGA Tour winner has questioned Bryson DeChambeau's faith and even called for Phil Mickelson to be removed from golf's hall of fame. 

He has repeatedly criticised LIV's backers, the Saudi PIF, for sportswashing and labelled called Al-Rumayyan 'a thug' that answers directly to the crown prince. 

Such was his disdain for LIV, Brooks Koepka once asked for a welfare check on Chamblee after the PGA Tour announced the 'framework agreement' with LIV's backers. 

Al-Rumayyan is the chairman of LIV Golf (and Premier League team Newcastle Unite) and the governor of the PIF. 

Chamblee told Golf Channel before the second round of the WM Phoenix Open that he has now changed his mind on Al-Rumayyan after playing golf with American president Donald Trump. 

Trump has been asked by PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan to intervene in peace talks with LIV's backers to help heal the split in men's golf. 

"I had the pleasure of playing with President Trump last year," said.  

"Almost after every single hole when he would put out he would want to come and talk to me about LIV Golf, about the Saudis' involvement in the game of golf and he was so magnanimous about our differences.

"He said 'I know you and I differ on this but hear me out.' 

"He said Yasir loves golf more than you do and more than I do. 

"That's hard to believe because president Trump plays a lot of golf and I'm crazy about it. But he was serious."

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Chamblee continued: "He was like: 'He loves golf that much'. They have 32 trillion dollars of oil underneath that sand and they really have to diversify their economy. He said they're all in on this and they'e not going anywhere.

"Geopolitical issues aside, of course I understand why we acquiesce and need Saudi as a partner in the Middle East.

"My issues were about the human rights concerns and about how golf at some point was going to have to apologise.

"[Trump] said 'look farther into the future, it's going to be good for Saudi Arabia, itgo's ing to be good for the PGA Tour, it's going to be good for LIV. 

"At the end of the day, did I agree with him? No.

"But I've got to say he made strong points all day long. He wasn't adamant about it but he was opinionated about it as I was. 

"At the end of it he did change my mind. He made me think about Yasir as a partner in the game of golf."

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