Bryson DeChambeau is 0-for-91 (and counting) in his pursuit of the ace.
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Thirteen days ago, Bryson DeChambeau published a Video 40 seconds on his social channels.
The reigning US Open champion was standing his way in shorts, a t-shirt and a backwards Crushers (his LIV team) hat. At his feet was a striking mat held by dumb bells. Behind him, two stories of floor-to-ceiling glass that is the facade of his gleaming Dallas-area home. Out of the picture, on the far side of the house: an artificial green in DeChambeau’s backyard. A hole cut a few paces from the front end of that green was the target for the putting challenge that DeChambeau would explain to his audience.
“This is day 1 of trying to do a hole in one over my house,” he says in the video. “And because it’s Day 1, I only get one ball.”
The implication: If DeChambeau didn’t make that shot — it appears to be roughly 100 yards — he’d be back on Day 2 for two more attempts, and on Day 3 for three more shots, and so on. Alas, DeChambeau didn’t make that first attempt, although he came close, his ball landing a few feet short of the hole before coming to rest about 18 inches short of it.
His stunt would live to see another day.
And another one. And another one. And well, as of Sunday, DeChambeau still hasn’t done either. He is now 0-for-91, albeit with more than a handful of shots that seemed destined to fall before stopping short of the hole or turning right or left of it.
However, if DeChambeau’s swing has failed him, the Internet has not. His now 13-part series has cumulatively garnered more than 50 million views on Instagram, with millions more eyes finding the videos on TikTok, YouTube and X. Among his following is comedian Bert Kreischer, who on day 10 wrote in the comments , “I’m so invested – now I’m asking that you don’t put a hole in one so this doesn’t stop.” Added another commenter, “Day 10 of asking you to punch it straight into a window.” This is an unlikely outcome; DeChambeau is very skilled. But just the prospect of a sharp shot is definitely part of the allure of the videos.
So, too, are all narrow errors.
According to the National Hole in a Log, the odds of a professional golfer making a hole-in-one is roughly 3,000 to 1. But that stat isn’t particularly helpful in this case, given that DeChambeau is hitting the same shot over and over and from a distance far shorter than the length of most par- The 3 that pro golfers are used to playing. Golf statistics prompt Lou Stagner, who said he was “hooked” on DeChambeau’s research, rated at X that DeChambeau’s chances of making a hole in any given street move are about 1 in 175. Assuming these odds, Stagner calculated that DeChambeau’s chances of making an ace by the 10th were 27 percent; by the 15th day, 49.7 percent; and by day 30, 93 percent. Predictably, the presenters also have set lines. on thursday, Handicapped Oddschecker the odds of DeChambeau hitting a shot before Thanksgiving at -150, or 60 percent, and the odds of him breaking a window at +160, or 38.5 percent.
