DeChambeau also revealed his stance on alien life and UFOs.
“I do think that there are interdimensional beings out there, for sure,” he said. “I do believe in UAPs [unidentified anomalous phenomena, the government-standard term for what were previously known as UFOs]. UAPs, UFOs, I think they’re more than just aliens from another world. Maybe aliens from another world. But I think there’s more. There’s a lot more to that story.”
DeChambeau is one of the faces of LIV Golf, which is in danger of collapsing after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced it would no longer bankroll the rebel competition.
Before the PIF withdrawal, DeChambeau, whose contract is up at the end of this season, was holding out for a new $500m deal. But even though the days of eye-watering contracts are now obviously over, LIV chief executive Scott O’Neil has expressed his confidence that DeChambeau will remain on board.
Indeed, DeChambeau is central to O’Neil’s business survival plan being put in front of potential investors. There have been reports from the US that LIV is looking at filing for bankruptcy. However, as well as preparing for the worst, experts say this could be a ploy to remove existing liabilities from the books.
LIV would clearly need a character with the social media pulling power of DeChambeau, who has almost three million subscribers on his YouTube account. So O’Neil will surely have winced when DeChambeau, without mentioning LIV, expressed uncertainty as to his playing future.
“I’m in that weird space right now, I don’t know what to do: either content creation or professional golf,” he told Miller. “I don’t know what to do right now.”
DeChambeau, who missed the cut at the Masters and US PGA Championship this year, also spoke about his friendship with Trump, saying: “He gives me a lot of c**p about pickles, actually. I don’t [like pickles]. There was one time when I was having lunch with him, and I told them [the restaurant staff], ‘No pickles, please.’ They brought pickles. I was like, ‘I said, no pickles!’ He [Trump] is like, ‘That’s why you’re a major champion. ’Cause you get so mad. There’s the intensity.’
“I got pretty aggressive. He’s like, ‘You’re the guy that doesn’t like pickles. You hate pickles.’ So he gives me the pickle story all the time. It’s quite fun.”
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