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 following video with different influential figures.
DeChambeau’s breaking-50 shoot with Trump – by which he and his associate staff up in a scramble format to try 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 up to now, and it has pushed his variety of subscribers previous 1.15 million.
DeChambeau mentioned the video shoot came about 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 Challenge for each stroke they shot beneath 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 facet” 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 facet,” DeChambeau mentioned Thursday from the LIV occasion in England. “We needed to showcase the golf skills of any influential particular person, and he was positively up on an inventory that I needed to showcase. We had been capable of name out and ask him to play, and he mentioned, Yeah, completely. We requested the opposite facet, as properly, and anybody that wishes to play. …
“He’s clearly a determine that may pull numerous views, and we thought it might be nice to showcase his {golfing} capacity, and he’s a reasonably good golfer. It was numerous enjoyable to do, and it took a bit of bit, however we obtained it accredited and it was enjoyable to shoot. It occurred in three days … so it was a number of 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 folks.”
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 certain,” DeChambeau mentioned, “and I respect and perceive that. I believe exhibiting the content material facet of it, creating content material, was a very powerful factor that we had been making an attempt to perform there and elevating some huge cash for charity. These two issues mixed, that’s the place we had been targeted on. Making an attempt to take the politics all out of it and simply going, Let’s create some wonderful enjoyable content material for folks to see some cool, enjoyable, entertaining pictures.”
