DeChambeau has grand plan to cut Masters course down to size

AP ^ | November 12, 2020 | Jim Litke

[C19fan]

Bryson DeChambeau is golf’s latest litmus test, hammering drives that sound and soar like mortar fire and cut corners in ways golf-course designers and his fellow pros never dreamed.

By the time the Masters ends Sunday, fans might still be debating whether that’s good for the game. Either way, though, real estate agents will be thrilled.

DeChambeau, in just his fifth season on tour, is on a mission to prove that courses worldwide — even championship venues now routinely stretching almost 7,800 yards — have run out of room. Last month, he overwhelmed a legendarily tough Winged Foot course and won the U.S. Open by six strokes. This week, he plans to cut even-more venerated Augusta National down to size.

[C19fan]

The chatter is if DeChambeau turns Augusta into a de facto Par 67 course the people who run the Masters might decide to mandate use of a tournament ball in the future. Former champion Sandy Lyle played some practice rounds with DeHulk and he listed deHulk's 2nd shot clubs and they were almost all high irons and wedges including on Par 5's.

[FlipWilson]

Many of the golf gliterari are giving this guy no respect. He sat down and used his brain to figure out a new approach that may, may have disrupted the game. If he is correct, I say bravo.

[I-ambush]

Is his club a modified hockey stick?

[RummyChick]

I took the bet that is winner without the 5 named favorites. Koepka.
.decided to go back in and put some money on bryson to win and first round leader because of this article.

[Hot Tabasco]

Drive for show, putt for dough....

[wardamneagle]

Grand plan.....

Not on those greens.

[Billyv]

Augusta National for the Masters was mean to be played when the course is almost dry and the greens are firm and fast. Length then doesn’t matter, position on the green for your first put is EVERYTHING. Seven three putted From THREE feet because he was on the wrong side of the cup. He was never the same after that Masters.

Good luck to all at Augusta.

[SES1066]

Bryson James Aldrich DeChambeau (b: September 16, 1993, Modesto CA, now resides in Dallas Texas), scholarship to Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, majoring in physics. He became 1st SMU athlete to win the NCAA individual championship in 2015. His nickname is "The Scientist". The below picture is before and after his deliberate 40lb weight gain for performance.

Below is his 'obligatory' girlfriend/model, Sophia Phalen Bertolami (27).

[W.]

Duck lips & fake tits? Pass!

[RayChuang88]

I’m actually surprised that both the USGA and the R&A at St. Andrews haven’t decided on a “reference” ball for tournament play decades ago.

[DUMBGRUNT]

The rising golf star is using data to rethink the game’s smallest norms—and he’s leaving everyone else in the rough

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bryson-dechambeau-masters-augusta-national-analytics-11605081050

“On the Monday before the U.S. Open at Winged Foot back in September, DeChambeau’s coach Chris Como sought out an unusual adviser: a professor at Columbia University’s business school. Como wanted to run DeChambeau’s strategy for the tournament by him, and it was a strategy most other golfers considered sheer lunacy. But the validation DeChambeau’s team wanted wasn’t from his peers, it was from this professor, Mark Broadie, who pioneered golf analytics.
Winged Foot has narrow fairways and brutal rough. The conventional wisdom was that for anyone to have a prayer of winning, they needed to value accuracy above all else. DeChambeau planned to do the exact opposite: the biggest driver on tour was going to ignore the consequences and smash the ball as far as he could, whether it landed on the fairway or not.

“The analytics were behind it,” Broadie says.”

DeChambeau was a teenager working when he was analyzing his swing and realized why he was having difficulties being consistent. The clubs themselves were inconsistent. All standard golf sets have clubs of different length, affecting the ball’s loft and distance.

“Why do I have to hit variable length clubs?” DeChambeau asked Schy. “Why can’t I hit all clubs the same length?”

“That is a very easy question to ask, but a very difficult one to answer,” Schy replied.
So like any curious golf technicians, they jury-rigged an experimental set and ran a test with makeshift irons. It worked wonderfully. He never wanted to go back.”

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

He’s a transformational player, like Curry in basketball. He has applied analysis to solve problems in golf. He actually enjoys practice more than games.

Only 3 players have won NCAA, Amateur, and US Open; Nicklaus, Woods, and DeChambeau. I expect he’ll also win lots of majors like the other two.

[dirtymac]

She is just a plastic blow up doll that is warm and can walk on her own. I don’t want her either