Brandel Chamblee, NBC Sports’ lead analyst at the 2024 U.S. Open, is a golf original, and a GOLF Original, the fourth in our monthly lineup that, to date, has brought you David Feherty in March, Tom Doak in April, Mike Whan in May and now Chamblee. Nobody has ever combined an encyclopedic knowledge of golf history with an ability to analyze swings and data as Chamblee does. If you want to know more about modern golf and how it is played, you really should read Brandel, listen to Brandel and watch Brandel.

“Golf gets in your blood,” he says in this 25-minute GOLF Originals mini-doc video that shows sides of Brandel Chamblee you don’t get to see in his regular Golf Channel appearances. “You can’t get away from it,” Chamblee says here of the game. You can’t get away from it, and Chamblee doesn’t want to, anyhow. Everything he shares in this video — in which he hops from four-time U.S. Open champion Willie Anderson’s gravesite to Merion’s 13th tee to the fairway at the Philadelphia Country Club where Byron Nelson holed a 1-iron on his way to winning the 1939 U.S. Open — will tell you that.

Chamblee has strong and informed opinions about LIV Golf, the proposed golf-ball rollback, the sanctity of golf’s rulebook, and we, as ordinary golf-on-TV viewers, are lucky to have them. But what we see here is the roots of it all, his deep, great immersion in this game.

“Every day to wake up, and have some purpose, that keeps you going?” Chamblee says. “It’s a gift.”

Chamblee has said a million of words over various broadcasts over the past 20 or more years. He might say a million more. Those two sentences, shared with us on a fairway at the Philadelphia Country Club, deserve to live forever.
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