It's no secret that former PGA Tour player and current Golf Channel broadcaster Brandel Chamblee isn't one to shy away from making remarks he knows not everyone will like or agree with.
But he says them anyway, which I can honestly respect, as he's paid to offer up his opinions.
And he's certainly got a divisive out there right now, as he recently had some things to say regarding none other than Tiger Woods.
And let's face it. Anything negative said about Tiger sends a lot of golf fans into a frenzy. And Chamblee has done just that, even if he also had the highest praise possible for the 15-time major champion.
Allow us to explain.
Brandel Chamblee says Tiger Woods is the "most underachieving golfer" of all time
In a recent appearance on The Skip Bayless Show—talk about a divisive duo right there—Chamblee had no problem calling Tiger the greatest golfer in the history of the sport.
And while some may disagree with that assessment and go with Jack Nicklaus—who's the only other player that can be included in that conversation, by the way—there's undoubtedly an argument to be made for Woods, what with the 15 majors (including holding all four at the same time), the second-most behind only Jack, and the 82 PGA Tour victories, which ties him with Sam Snead for the most ever.
Chamblee did make sure to mention Nicklaus when praising Woods and threw some other big names in there as well.
"What he did, nobody had ever seen anything like it," Chamblee said. "He was so far superior to any of his peers, far, far more superior to his peers than [Bobby] Jones was, than [Ben] Hogan was, than [Jack] Nicklaus was."
At that point, Bayless jumped in, saying he was torn up "about how some of his injuries were self-inflicted after he dominated this game the way nobody has."
Woods, of course, has dealt with several debilitating injuries over the years—there's just far too many to get into all of them in detail—some of which hindered the prime years of his Hall of Fame career.
It's no secret that after Tiger won the 2008 U.S. Open with a broken leg, which gave him 14 major championships at the age of 32, which is absurd, he failed to win No. 15 until his victory at The Masters in 2019.
And that's the point Chamblee seemed to want to get across as he continued his assessment of Tiger's career.
"I would say he's the most underachieving golfer in the history of the game," Chamblee opined. "And the way I get there is, I can think of no other golfer who left 10 to 15 major championships on the table, who left 30 to 40 regular tour events on the table.
"Of course, he's the greatest player of all time, but he's also at the same time the most underachieving."
He then went into how he and his fellow Golf Channel analysts were talking ahead of that aforementioned 2008 U.S. Open, the conversation being how much more Woods would win during his career.
"Nobody guessed beneath 20 majors at the end of his career," he said. "It was 20 to 25 majors. . .and over 100 tour events."
Come on, Brandel, tell us how you really feel for once.