Bryson DeChambeau mentioned that his viral YouTube problem view with former President Donald Trump took simply three days to coordinate and that he’s already wanting ahead to the subsequent video with different influential figures.
DeChambeau’s breaking-50 shoot with Trump – by which he and his companion staff up in a scramble format to attempt to card a sub-50 rating from the ahead tees – has already garnered practically 7 million views on YouTube as of this writing. It’s by far DeChambeau’s hottest view to this point, and it has pushed his variety of subscribers previous 1.15 million.
DeChambeau mentioned the video shoot passed off on July 6 – between the presidential debate with Trump and Joe Biden, in addition to the July 13 Trump marketing campaign rally in Pennsylvania that ended with an tried assassination of the previous president.
Pledging to donate to the Wounded Warrior Venture for each stroke they shot below par, DeChambeau mentioned the day was about “golf and giving again to our nation’s veterans, not politics.” He mentioned he additionally reached out to the “different aspect” to arrange a spherical.
“First off, it’s an honor to play with anyone of that sort of affect, regardless of who it’s on any political aspect,” DeChambeau mentioned Thursday from the LIV occasion in England. “We needed to showcase the golf talents of any influential individual, and he was undoubtedly up on an inventory that I needed to showcase. We have been capable of name out and ask him to play, and he mentioned, Yeah, completely. We requested the opposite aspect, as nicely, and anybody that desires to play. …
“He’s clearly a determine that may pull a whole lot of views, and we thought it will be nice to showcase his {golfing} capability, and he’s a fairly good golfer. It was a whole lot of enjoyable to do, and it took somewhat bit, however we acquired it authorized and it was enjoyable to shoot. It occurred in three days … so it was just a few weeks earlier than all of the stuff went down, and it was a good time. We had a blast, and I sit up for doing much more of these with different influential individuals.”
DeChambeau has a longstanding relationship with the previous president, and earlier on this profession, he had the Trump Group’s emblem on his workers bag. Trump’s son additionally hosted a celebration for DeChambeau following his victory on the 2020 U.S. Open.
“Politicians are divisive figures for positive,” DeChambeau mentioned, “and I respect and perceive that. I believe displaying the content material aspect of it, creating content material, was a very powerful factor that we have been attempting to perform there and elevating some huge cash for charity. These two issues mixed, that’s the place we have been centered on. Attempting to take the politics all out of it and simply going, Let’s create some wonderful enjoyable content material for individuals to see some cool, enjoyable, entertaining photographs.”
