This is no big deal, but as I am looking at my video from yesterday’s swing session, I’ve had this clip of Bryson DeChambeau with 11 million views on it come across my YouTube feed, and I knew it was a faked video about 7 seconds in.

This isn’t BDC committing the fraud, however – I want to make that clear – it’s some golf site called CrushersGC, and I wouldn’t give them any credibility with the blatant fraud they’re pushing out there.

You can see for yourself:

Yeah, really.  Did you catch that?

If you didn’t – there is no one on this earth who can hit a drive with 13-14 seconds of hang time – the world’s longest long drivers get between 7-9 seconds of hang time, and I’ve barely gotten to 8 seconds on my longest drives where I monitored the hang time.

You’ll notice that the ball reaches apex after 3 to 3.5 seconds, which would mean it would have a hang time of between 6-7 seconds, which is exactly what you would expect from a pro golfer’s drive:

I’ve never seen a 10 second hang time on a regular drive (hitting balls on high tees to a fairway or green far below will increase hang time because of the difference in elevation from tee to landing area), and 13-14 seconds is an absolute joke.

Not only that, imagine hitting a drive with 14 seconds of hang time, only to land your ball where dozens of others have hit it off the same tee:

That’s an awful lot of 14 hang time drives there, WAX Nation.

I’m afraid the good ol’ days of golf have long come to an end.  Between the ridiculous equipment on hand, the fragmented state of professional golf tours, the constantly changing tournaments that come and go and the fact you can’t watch golf at all without subscribing to multiple sports streaming channels… and now AI created fraud videos…

It’s over.

I stopped watching televised golf back in the days when I cut my cable package and refused to pay good money for the rubbish broadcasts, and every time I tune into a major that is available to watch on over the air TV, I am reminded why.

Long gone are the days back in the late 90s when you could watch golf on over the air channels and get great content on the newly-launched Golf Channel, when watching golf on television was actually fun.

Now, it’s an absolute wasteland.