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I happened to be flipping through channels when I caught this short piece, and when I heard Brandel ripping Rory and comparing him to Byron Nelson I knew I had another video in the can. Chamblee is mind-boggling: he takes the best players in the world, waits for them to have a bad round or a bad tournament, picks their worst shot, and does an analysis showing how poor their technique is and states that this is why they missed the cut, or lost the tournament, or hit the odd bad shot. Of course, he knows beforehand that the shot is bad and that they played poorly, but just wait a week or two when the player plays well again and he will be right on the bandwagon talking about how great the technique is. I find just about everything Chamblee does to be offensive, especially with the know-it-all tone and sneering facial expressions.
I didn’t want this video to be as long as it turned out to be, but there was so much misinformation and poor analysis to go over that it just turned into 18 minutes worth before I knew it. Chamblee comments on stance width from a camera angle where the stance width is not even evident, talks about McIlroy’s alignment as being a major problem while the swing of Byron Nelson that he uses as a comparison shows the exact same shoulder and foot alignment, and makes statements about Nelson’s and McIlroy’s lower body movement that are not only completely wrong but the exact opposite of what Chamblee says is happening. It is another example of Brandel’s shoddy preparation and non-existent analytical skills, and the fact that he chooses the second ranked player in the world to rank on just shows the incredible breadth of his inflated ego. Chamblee is making a huge effort to look like an expert on the golf swing: to people who know anything about swing technique his attempts are a joke.
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