Is Rory McIlroy Getting Special Treatment? And What Is Actually Wrong With Bryson DeChambeau? | Mailbag

21 min · 3. Juli 2026

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Is Rory McIlroy Getting Special Treatment? And What Is Actually Wrong With Bryson DeChambeau? | Mailbag This episode is sponsored by Quince. Free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/wingo It is your time on Golf Live. Seven questions this week — and two of them generated the most honest and most entertaining exchanges of the entire episode. Victor Hovland Wins. The Norwegian Fans Made It a Party. The first question out of the gate — what did you make of Hovland's win and the Norwegian fans bringing World Cup energy to TPC River Highlands? Trey's answer is simple. He loved every second of it. The World Cup has been about two things this summer — Americans seeing their country through fresh eyes, and the kind of passionate fandom that makes sports feel genuinely alive. The Norwegians brought that to a PGA Tour event on a Sunday afternoon in Connecticut and it was unlike anything the Travelers has seen before. Justin adds — the Tartan Army drank all the beer in Boston, the Norwegians took over the Travelers, and somehow all of these foreign fans descending on American venues have generated almost zero incidents. Just pure joy. That is what the World Cup is doing to this country right now. How Can Sponsors Justify $20 Million Without Getting Exemptions? A sharp question that Trey actually put directly to Brian Rolapp after the press conference. Rolapp's answer was clean and Trey thought it was perfect — there is no other sport where you bring in someone off the street to compete in a championship event because a sponsor asked nicely. The Yankees do not let a local fan bat cleanup in a playoff game. The NBA does not let a Smoothie King contest winner take a free throw in a tie game in February. The best 120 players in the world competing every week is what sponsors are actually buying. That is worth more than one local exemption ever was. Justin adds — sponsors are going to need to get creative about what the relationship looks like going forward. More hospitality access, more player interaction, more experiences that money cannot buy in the traditional sense. The exemption era is over. The creativity era is beginning. When Does Patrick Reed Come Back? Next season. Full time. Trey has no doubt. Reed has won multiple times on the DP World Tour this year, earned his card before February, and pared down his schedule to focus on the events that matter most. He is playing his way back into being the player who won the 2018 Masters and challenged the best players in the world every time he showed up. Justin adds the detail that stuck with him most from Reed's return — Reed said his favorite feeling in the world is being on the driving range on Sunday before the final tee time and watching everyone else slowly leave until it is just him and the player he is paired with in the final group. That is a competitor who missed competing. Justin would not be surprised to see Reed win on the PGA Tour in 2027. Trey's closing line — whether you like him or not, golf needs villains as much as it needs heroes. Just do not root against him the way the Long Island crowd rooted against Wyndham Clark at the US Open. That is not the way to go. What Is Actually Wrong With Bryson DeChambeau? Three consecutive missed cuts in major championships. First time in his career. And Trey has a very specific theory about why. Bryson is being pulled in too many directions at once. LIV obligations. A YouTube channel making close to seven figures a year. Business partnerships. Public persona management. And somewhere buried underneath all of that — a competitive golfer who won two US Opens and was one of the most compelling players in the world when he was locked in on being exactly that. Trey references something a golf pro once told him — you are the best multitasker I have ever seen and it is killing your golf game. That is Bryson right now but at a much higher level. He even floated the idea publicly of just quitting competitive golf and doing YouTube and the majors. Trey's response — not if you keep missing the cuts, you are not. You are just going to be a YouTuber full time. To be the best at something you have to be willing to sacrifice everything else and shut it all down. Bryson has not made that choice yet. Until he does the results are going to reflect it. Justin agrees — the proof is in the pudding. Three consecutive major missed cuts is not a sample size problem. It is a clarity problem. With clarity will come a more familiar and more dangerous Bryson DeChambeau. It is on him to figure out what he wants to be. Dustin Johnson Misses the Open Championship For the first time since 2009 Dustin Johnson will not play in the Open Championship. The streak is over. Trey's take — his career is exactly where he wants it to be. When DJ signed with LIV he was more honest about his motivations than almost anyone else who made that move. He did not talk about growing the game or building something new. He said plainly — I came here to play less golf and they are going to pay me a lot of money to do it. Two majors. Countless PGA Tour wins. A massive payday. And now a lifestyle that prioritizes everything outside of competitive golf. That is a choice and it is his to make. Justin adds the historical context — one top ten in a major in the last four seasons. Peak DJ was a force and a genuinely captivating character. The grounded club at the PGA Championship. Literally throwing up on himself at Pebble Beach with the lead. The missed putt at Chambers Bay. The win at Oakmont amidst a rules controversy. That version of Dustin Johnson was must-watch golf. The current version has decided something else matters more. And that is completely fine. Eugenio Chacarra Wins the Italian Open First — Katrina nails the pronunciation. Chef's kiss. Trey loves it. And he loves this story. Chacarra was a stud at Oklahoma State with all the hype in the world coming out of college. Things did not go the way he planned on the LIV Tour. He made the decision to leave the guaranteed money and go dig it out of the dirt on the DP World Tour. And he won. He is now third in the Race to Dubai standings behind only Patrick Cantlay and Rory McIlroy. He is going to be on the PGA Tour next year. Justin makes the point that resonates most — you always think you can do it. You do not actually believe it until you do it. Chacarra did it. That is the whole story. Trey draws the parallel to Anthony Kim — not about the circumstances but about the spirit. Putting yourself back in the arena and finding out whether you still have it. Some guys do. Chacarra does. Is the PGA Tour Creating a Double Standard for Rory McIlroy? The final question. The best exchange of the mailbag. And the one that perfectly bookends the entire episode's conversation about how the new PGA Tour structure is actually going to work in practice. Rory McIlroy is not meeting his 15-event minimum this year. The PGA Tour appears set to grant him an exemption. Is that the right call or is it a double standard? Trey — it is not a double standard. When you have done what Rory McIlroy has done for this sport, for this tour, and for this game, the rules bend differently. He is one of six players to complete the career grand slam. He is halfway to doing it a second time. It is just different. Justin — I think it is a double standard. And I totally agree with it. Period. That is the Jimmy Johnson rule stated as clearly as it will ever be stated. You will not be treated the same as everyone else if you are more valuable to the entity than everyone else. That is not unfair. That is just how sports work at the highest level. And the new PGA Tour is going to operate exactly the same way regardless of what any press release says about universal standards and meritocracy. The rules are rigid on the vision. Flexible on the details. And for Rory McIlroy, the details will always find a way. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Bryson DeChambeau’s Two-Stroke Penalty Changed The Open Championship

Bryson DeChambeau’s Two-Stroke Penalty Changed The Open Championship Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Subscribe to support the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@treywingopresents?sub_confirmation=1 Bryson DeChambeau thought he had shot a 66 in the second round of The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. Instead, everything changed after he walked into the scoring area. The R&A rules officials reviewed Bryson’s actions on the fifth hole, where his drive ended up in deep fescue. The question was whether Bryson had improved his lie by walking around the ball and pressing down the grass behind it before hitting his shot. After a long and animated discussion, officials assessed a two-stroke penalty. That moved Bryson from seven-under to five-under. Instead of sitting one shot off the lead and playing in the final group on Saturday, he dropped farther down the leaderboard. Trey Wingo breaks down why the penalty matters, why the R&A was never going to bend on protecting the integrity of the rules, and why Bryson had to be careful not to let his frustration ruin the entire tournament. Because according to Trey, if Bryson had disqualified himself over the penalty, it would have been one of the worst decisions in professional golf history. Even after the penalty, Bryson is still right in the mix. The leaderboard entering the weekend is wide open. Lucas Herbert leads at eight-under after shooting 62. Jackson Suber, Cameron Young and Ryan Gerard are at six-under. Sam Burns and Bryson are at five-under. Behind them are names like Scottie Scheffler, John Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre and Francesco Molinari. And that is what makes this so interesting. Many of the players ahead of Bryson have never won a major. Bryson has won two U.S. Opens. He knows what it takes to close on the weekend. The biggest question now is whether he can calm down, reset mentally, and turn this controversy into fuel. Trey also explains why the penalty changed the Saturday pairings. Without it, Bryson would have played in the final group with Lucas Herbert. Instead, Herbert now gets Jackson Suber. That is a very different dynamic. The Open now has everything heading into the weekend: controversy, record-setting rounds, young players at the top, proven major champions lurking, and Bryson DeChambeau trying to turn his entire year around. The penalty hurt him. But it did not end his championship. More Straight Facts Homie! Episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLihC6TAafKWcDbvIlAMc87HibcOlDYf8c&si=sPioGmRdOG8yZOVk Find us on all platforms here: https://linktr.ee/thewingonetwork Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Is the NFL Giving Fans Too Much Football?

Is the NFL Giving Fans Too Much Football? Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Andrew Brandt joins Trey Wingo to talk about one of the biggest questions around the NFL: can the league ever become too big? Trey starts with the idea of scarcity. Part of what made the NFL so powerful is that fans had to wait for it. Sunday mattered. Monday night mattered. One game a week made the product feel special. But now the NFL is everywhere. There are games all day Sunday, including early international games. Monday Night Football. Thursday Night Football. Thanksgiving games. A Black Friday game. Christmas games. Saturday games late in the season. And now even Thanksgiving Eve is becoming part of the NFL calendar. So Trey asks the real question: is the NFL messing with the formula that made it so valuable? America’s Addiction Trey says football is not America’s pastime anymore. It is America’s national addiction. Andrew says he would like to think the NFL could eventually go too far, but the evidence still says no. The league has survived concerns over protests, concussions, politics, sports betting and oversaturation, and the appetite for football is still massive. Trey brings up Mark Cuban’s old warning that “pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.” Andrew’s response is simple: the hogs are not close to getting slaughtered. Schedule Overload The conversation gets into whether fans will keep planning every other day of the week around NFL games. Trey points out that players like Jason Kelce have talked about what makes football special: you only get one game a week, and everyone builds toward it. Andrew admits that even he has had moments where it felt like there was too much football, especially around Thanksgiving and Christmas. But whether that feeling becomes universal is still the question. Cowboys Value and the Next Sale From there, Trey and Andrew connect the schedule conversation back to franchise value. After the Seahawks sold for nearly $10 billion, Trey asks what the Dallas Cowboys could be worth. If Seattle is worth almost $10 billion, is America’s Team worth $20 billion? Andrew explains that some franchises may never actually hit the open market, including the Cowboys, Patriots, Bengals, 49ers and Eagles, because they are family-controlled teams. Still, the larger point is clear: NFL ownership has become one of the most valuable assets in sports. Green Bay and the NFL’s Secret Sauce The conversation ends with one of the most interesting parts of the NFL business model: Green Bay. Trey points out that the Packers play in the smallest market in major American professional sports, yet they are able to compete because the NFL shares revenue equally across teams. Andrew calls it “corporate socialism.” The league’s owners are extremely capitalist in almost every other business sense, but the NFL works because every team gets an equal share of the national revenue. That is why Green Bay can compete with New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. It is also why NFL franchise values keep climbing. The question is whether the league can keep adding more games, more windows and more money without damaging what made the product special in the first place. For now, the answer still seems to be yes. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Who Actually Fits Royal Birkdale? | Mailbag

Who Actually Fits Royal Birkdale? | Mailbag Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Golf Live wraps the episode with an Open Championship mailbag from Royal Birkdale. Trey Wingo and Justin Ray answer viewer questions on which players benefit most from the firm and fast setup, whether this year’s major venues have been fair, what to make of Scottie Scheffler’s season, and which non-obvious Open winner would create the best story. They also get into Tom Kim’s future, the state of the DP World Tour and why Birkdale may not reward the same players we usually expect at a major. Who Benefits Most at Birkdale? The first big question is about fit. With Royal Birkdale playing firm and fast, Trey thinks almost everybody is in play. Distance does not carry the same advantage when the ball is running this much, and the shortest players in the field may have a better chance than usual. Justin points to accurate players who can control their ball flight: Russell Henley, Collin Morikawa and Tom Kim. Those players may not have the same extra gear off the tee, but this setup can narrow that gap. On the other side, Justin is staying away from Cameron Young because of how much he has struggled on the greens. Have the Major Setups Been Good? Trey and Justin also discuss the major setups this year. Justin thinks they have been strong overall. Everyone is going to complain about the U.S. Open setup, but he thought the USGA did a good job with what it had. Trey agrees. He thought the courses have generally been difficult but fair, and he expects Royal Birkdale to create its own kind of test because of the weather and firm conditions. There will be strange bounces. There will be shots that make players wonder how the ball ended up there. But that is part of the Open. Is Scottie’s Season a Failure Without Another Major? The answer from both Trey and Justin is no. Scottie Scheffler has set the bar so high that anything short of constant winning starts to feel disappointing, but Justin says he is still statistically elite across the board. He compares it to Nelly Korda’s season after her seven-win run: still excellent, even if the wins do not come as easily. Trey’s point is that Scottie’s hold on world No. 1 is still massive. It would take a huge drop from him and a huge leap from someone else to change that. The Best Open Storylines The mailbag also looks at which non-obvious Open winner would create the best story. Tommy Fleetwood winning in England would be huge. Justin Rose would be emotional. Robert MacIntyre winning would have a Scottish-conquers-England feel. Jon Rahm remains fascinating. And Bryson DeChambeau trying to avoid missing the cut in all four majors is another storyline to watch. There are a lot of ways this week could get interesting. Tom Kim and the DP World Tour Trey and Justin also talk about Tom Kim’s future after his Scottish Open win. Kim turned pro at 15, won early on the PGA Tour and became a Presidents Cup star before hitting a rough stretch. Now, he may be coming out of it. The episode closes with a bigger DP World Tour discussion. Justin says the tour still has strong events ahead, especially with the national opens and late-season championship run. A strong European tour is good for the entire golf world. And at Royal Birkdale, the mailbag question is pretty simple: Who actually fits the test? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Bryson DeChambeau Answers Nick Faldo’s “Zero Strategy” Criticism

Bryson DeChambeau Answers Nick Faldo’s “Zero Strategy” Criticism Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Bryson DeChambeau finally gave The Open Championship something extra to talk about. After missing the cut in the first three majors of the year, Bryson opened at Royal Birkdale with a three-under 67. That round put him within striking distance of the lead, but the bigger story was what came before it. Sir Nick Faldo, a six-time major champion and three-time Open Championship winner, was asked about Bryson’s struggles in majors this season and did not hold back. Faldo said Bryson has “zero clue of strategy,” arguing that links golf cannot simply be attacked with power. At The Open, especially on a firm and fast course like Royal Birkdale, players have to think their way around the golf course. They have to understand where the ball will bounce, where it can run, where the bad misses are, and how to keep it on the short grass. Faldo’s point was that Bryson cannot just bomb driver and expect links golf to reward him. Bryson clearly heard it. After his round, Bryson talked about being “incredibly strategic,” staying focused, and placing the ball in the right areas. Trey Wingo breaks down why that response mattered, why the pettiness is good for the tournament, and why Bryson’s opening round gave The Open a much-needed storyline. But Trey also explains why the question is not fully answered yet. Bryson played well, but he still missed a lot of fairways. On a links course, that matters. At Royal Birkdale, the ball can take hard bounces, run into rough, find bad angles, or leave a player blocked out. One day, the bounces work. The next day, the same misses can turn a three-under round into a three-over round. That is what makes Bryson’s week so interesting. Did he actually find the right strategy for links golf? Or did Thursday’s round work because the bounces went his way? Trey also gets into why Bryson remains one of the most compelling players in golf. He is a two-time U.S. Open champion, one of the most powerful players in the world, and never afraid to respond when he feels criticized. After being a non-factor in the first three majors of the year, Bryson suddenly gave the final major of the season a little edge. The rest of the Round 1 leaderboard is just as interesting. Jackson Suber opened with a surprise 65. Collin Morikawa stayed in the mix on a course that should suit his iron game. Scottie Scheffler bounced back after a missed cut and sits within reach. Rory McIlroy had an up-and-down putting day. Xander Schauffele had a rough finish. Justin Rose, one of the sentimental favorites at Royal Birkdale, put himself in a difficult spot with a disappointing opening round. The Open is firm, fast, and already full of storylines. Bryson vs. Faldo. Power vs. strategy. And one last chance this year to win a major championship. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Andrew Brandt Explains the NFL Money Machine

Andrew Brandt Explains the NFL Money Machine Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Andrew Brandt joins Trey Wingo to break down why NFL money keeps getting bigger and why team valuations are reaching numbers that used to seem impossible. Trey starts with the sale of the Seattle Seahawks for $9.6 billion. The number itself is massive, but what stood out even more was how quickly NFL franchise values have exploded. The Washington Commanders sold for more than $6 billion just a few years earlier. Before that, the Carolina Panthers sold for $2.27 billion and the Denver Broncos sold for $4.6 billion. Andrew explains why the NFL finally opened the door to private equity and what that actually means. These investors are not controlling coaches, players, concessions or football decisions. They are mostly putting money into the system because NFL ownership has become one of the most valuable assets in sports. The conversation also gets into fractional team sales with the Bills, Raiders, Eagles and Giants. Andrew points out that the Giants selling 10 percent for $1 billion implies a $10 billion valuation, even without a full team sale. From there, Trey and Andrew discuss the bigger question: where does the money stop? The NFL has survived concerns around concussions, politics, protests and oversaturation, and Andrew says there still does not seem to be any real threat to the league’s dominance. The league has long-term media deals, an owner-friendly CBA, and a fan base that keeps watching. Then the conversation shifts to tech money and media rights. Trey points out that 90 of the top 100 rated TV shows last year were NFL games, and that traditional networks cannot really exist without the NFL. But companies like Apple, Google, YouTube and Amazon operate differently. They do not need the NFL the same way legacy networks do, but if they decide they want it, they have the money to drive the price even higher. Andrew explains how quickly streaming-only NFL games have become normal and why the next media rights cycle could change the entire sports television business. This is the NFL money machine: franchise values, private equity, streaming, tech companies and media rights all pushing the league into a financial universe of its own. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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