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 trying ahead to the following video with different influential figures.
DeChambeau’s breaking-50 shoot with Trump – through which he and his accomplice crew up in a scramble format to try to card a sub-50 rating from the ahead tees – has already garnered almost 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 occurred 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 Mission for each stroke they shot underneath 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 kind 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 skills of any influential individual, and he was positively 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 wishes to play. …
“He’s clearly a determine that may pull a variety of views, and we thought it will be nice to showcase his {golfing} capability, and he’s a reasonably good golfer. It was a variety of enjoyable to do, and it took just a little bit, however we obtained it accredited and it was enjoyable to shoot. It occurred in three days … so it was a couple of weeks earlier than all of the stuff went down, and it was a good time. We had a blast, and I stay 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 brand on his employees 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 feel displaying the content material aspect of it, creating content material, was crucial 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. Making an attempt to take the politics all out of it and simply going, Let’s create some superb enjoyable content material for folks to see some cool, enjoyable, entertaining pictures.”