Bryson Dechambeau did not win Master but continues to win over fans

Augusta, ga. – I’m not saying this is professional because it is not. And I’m not saying that this strange act reveals my root interest because it doesn’t happen. But while Bryson Dechambeau made his way up from ninth green to tenth, I watched my hand for some skin from the US open champion reign, just like everyone else who lined up the parade that leads the players to nine back of Augusta National and the celebrated start of the tournament.

Two hours ago, Dechambeau was in the direction range. He was the only player in the rank. It was 2:21 pm and he was bombarding drivers with his kettle behind him and his shaky coach next to him, a cellphone in a determined stay in this beef.

It was an unclear experience, looking at it. His time was at the end of the end of the day. He was paired with the only son in front of him, Rory Mcilroywho slept in a two -stroke bullet, with 54 holes. That whole time was set to start at nine – now eight! – minutes. Dechambeau was about 300 meters away from scratch, a trip he would make, through a crowd. There was a strange golf horses, in the u -shaped heel of his golf shoes. He hit a final car, followed by a last 3-dru.

bitch. While Elvis left the music halls, Bryson was leaving this range. It seems he would do it in time. What relief.

And then he stopped and signed autographs. A dozen or more. He became high handcuffs, with which he was fined with young fans and differently.

No!

There was a manic energy coming out of man. This has been the case for years. Remember on Saturday-Neta-Neta session in the foot on foot, on the eve of his 2020 US Open victory? But there is no hour in an evening interval session. Here the clock was scoring aloud.

The last Kid Dechambeau encountered as he left the range was an eighth grade from Mobile, Ala, named Peter Muller. They rightly.

“Does what does this tell you about Bryson?” I asked the new Peter that he was taking fans before this date with Destiny.

“It tells me that Bryson will win today,” the child said in an unexpected tone, almost tired of the world.

Long ago the boy seemed more aware than Johnny Miller In his prime minister of broadcasting. Dechambeau took a lead with a stroke in the tournament after a premature start, while Mcilroy opened with a double noise followed by a par. Dechambeau was 11 under par. If he could have played home from there at the same time, he would have been on Play off Justin Rose-Ore Mcilroy. This, of course, did not happen.

When two European Cups Ryder were fleeing to play on their two men’s play off, Dechambeau was talking to the reporters about his Sunday 75. His mcilory was dismantling (if you can trust my tone reading) visible. Asked about Mcilroy’s mood in the scorer’s room at the end of their Sunday round, Dechambeau said, “There is no idea. He didn’t talk to me all day.”

Asked what their report was on the course, Dechambeau said, “He wouldn’t talk to me.”

There are many things that are happening here. Mcilroy has become a symbol of the establishment of the East Coast golf and a PGA Tour defender in his ongoing dispute of the Liv Golf’s eyes. Both men are plus-four speakers, or they can be. It was not the height of ash that Mcilroy would not congratulate Dechambeau on his victory over Mcilroy last year on Sunday of the US Open. (He finally did a month later in the open championship.) Mcilroy is gently rejected by YouTube Golf. (He says he is happy for the people who like it, but he would better read a book or watch a movie.) Dechambeau has 1.8 million followers on his YouTube channel.

Here is Dechambeau that describes 7 mcilroy made in par-5 13, with particular emphasis on his third purpose, which ended in Creek: “I have wanted to cry for him. I want to say, as a professional, you just know how to hit him in the middle of green, and I can’t believe he went for (PIN).

“But I have hit bad shots in my career, too. When you are trying to win a big championship, especially here, on Sunday Augusta, the craftsmen, you have to do it and do the job done and do it properly. There were times when he had full control and when it was, ‘what was happening?’ Type looked like one of my rounds, in fact. “

It was funny because it was true.

There is no one in golf from distance like Dechambeau. Wing swing, marathon verse sessions, physics changes, child-like enthusiasm for its self-made challenges on YouTube, the size of its gloves and forearms. At the end of the 72 holes, he seemed burnt by the sun and his blue eyes were practically on fire.

I asked him about cutting his first arrival so close. “I won’t waste my time,” he said with games. “I’ve done it too much in my career.”

I didn’t tell him I was on the rope line as he did it was from nine to ten. I pulled my left hand open and he folded softly with his left fist. I felt funny.

But, on the left and right, I saw all sorts of golf fans – children, boys Frat, men in their 30s – who seemed excited to connect with the open reign champion. Dechambeau was ten steps ahead of Mcilroy, and four shots behind him. He was limiting the hill, as if something good was waiting for him, inserting and slamming all the way.

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