Bryson DeChambeau was not happy with a cameraman at the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Saturday, however the cameraman appears to have been doing his job.
DeChambeau, who shot 5-to-67 in the third round at the Detroit Golf Club and sits three from leader Matthew Wolff who headed to Sunday, had to pitch from a green bunker at No. 7.
The shot wasn’t great, and DeChambeau threw his stick into the sand after frustration.
His anger, however, did not stop there.
DeChambeau struggled with a cameraman who was tracking his movements with his camera as he walked onto the green and marked his ball after the shot, which is exactly his job. And since nothing else happens in the hole, it’s also not like the cameraman is missing another critical moment.
DeChambeau even confronted the cameraman after finishing the hole.
Bryson running a little hot. She caught her on the 7th when she received a cut from Sergio in the sand after leaving a green bunker, muttered an expletive after missing the saved pair, and spent 60 seconds in an irritable … discussion with a cameraman on her way to 8 pic.twitter.com/ENjQt1U689
– Will Gray (@WillGrayGC) July 4, 2020
“He was literally watching me the whole way after leaving the bunker, walking next to the green. And I just said, ‘Lord, what need is there to see me for so long?’ DeChambeau said after the round, through the Golf Channel. “I mean, I understand that it’s your job to videotape me, but at the same point, I think we should start protecting our players here compared to showing potential vulnerability and damaging someone’s image.” I just don’t think it’s necessarily the right thing to do. “
DeChambeau has five career career victories, the most recent at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open last season. The 26-year-old has finished T8 or better in all three PGA Tour events held since the game resumed after the COVID-19 parenthesis last month, and is currently No. 10 in the Official World Golf Ranking.
DeChambeau said he felt like the cameraman was trying to paint it in low light, and that could have damaged his mark, even though he was the one who reacted badly after his shot.
“As much as we are acting, I think we need to also have our moments of privacy when things don’t go our way. I mean, we’re in the limelight, but if someone else is in the limelight, they wouldn’t want that either, ”DeChambeau said, through the Golf Channel. “I feel like when you’re filming someone and you catch Tiger [Woods] at a bad time, you accidentally show him doing something, or someone else, they’re just frustrated because they really care about the game. It could really hurt them if they catch you at a potentially vulnerable time.
“We don’t want to say anything with that, we only care a lot about the game. For that to harm our brand in that way, that’s not great in the way we act because if you really know me in person, I’m not that bad, I don’t think so. ”
Bryson DeChambeau believes that a cameraman may have damaged his image after filming him for too long in the Rocket Mortgage Classic and letting him listen to it. (Leon Halip / Getty Images)
