Bryson Dechambeau’s new superpower can win the masters

Augusta, ga. – as Shane Lowry He left the back of the 18th Green after a second round 68 in this 89th master, he noticed a new fan in a rope line. Lowry arrived in his pocket, pulled out a ball and threw it to the boy, placing a smile on the baby’s face that reached Corner.

Bryson dechambeauwho was in the Lowry group and some rhythms behind him, proved the exchange-and then he made the pint-sized protector better. Dechambeau pulled out a ball and a sharpness from his bag and delivered the young man by hand signed memorandum

What is that old ad? Ah, yes. Anything you can do, Bryson can do better.

We are looking here, people, but only partially, because these days there is more than a hint of that atmosphere about Dechambeau. He will take you away in the gym, you work in the range and overcome you on YouTube (1.8 million subscribers and counting). And then he will surpass you in degrees.

You remember dechambeau victory In the US Open last summer, but if you only pay attention to the professional game, you may have forgotten his sixth place in last year’s masters and race in the PGA Championship Arrestgates in Valhalla. Dechambeau has become a key element in the charts of the main sampling, and this trend has not ceased this week.

When Dechambeau made that day of fan in the house hole, he had just set the touches of finishing at a 68 68 to switch to seven for tournament, a back Club leader Justin Rose. It had been a regular round in what was difficult, day -to -day: birds at 2, 4, 5, 8 and 17 paired with a lonely Bogey in 16 years old. When you look at Dechambeau to play “Break 50” series), it may be easy to think that he has only one outfit: full drowning. This may be true in some of his open-to-winged environments comes to mind-but bombs and gouge does not play in Augusta National, certainly not when the gust wind as she did on Friday.

It has taken Dechambeau’s time to fully understand and appreciate the complications of this worrying course. Five years ago, he deceived him, with his jaw power, Augusta was for him in force a first 67. But that same year, he ended the 34th and, a year later, the 46th. In both 2022 and ’23, he lost the weekend. On Friday, Dechambeau hit a chord of different determination. He spoke about the importance of banking experience here, adding, “I will continue to learn, depending on the conditions of wind and endurance and everything, the type of grass, the way he is laying.”

Perhaps no shot better illustrated this more restrained approach than its purpose in the 350-Oborret par-4 3. Dechambeau foods in 4 removable such as they are milk, but on Friday it withdrew, repenting an iron from the mouth that left 149 yards in green. Dechambeau later said he wanted to hit the driver, but would not be able to “get the right rotation in it to approach it. He would have danced from the flag and would go 15, 20 meters from. So I felt as if I lay down it would give me a better chance to lower it softer and I just had it. Still, he left the ball down the hole and with two putted for par.

“I learned from the past experience, hitting him up there and having this tight 75-Oborre kick I can’t really control,” he said. “Better I would have a little 10:30 9-Well for me.”

Whether he is playing well or with misery, Dechambeau is never happy with his game. He is a researcher. After its opening on Thursday, he repaired in the range and put the balls up to dusk. He said he was blazing his iron shooting and wanted to tear the “equation of shares”. He also received a series of practical shakes with a pronounced upper action, in an effort, he said, “to bend and turn the handle. As a shot at the topspin in the ping-pong. That’s just what I want to feel in my golf swing.”

On Friday, this feeling began to click with his intention of tee in par-4 5, then really showed her colors at 9, where he hit a 357-yard rope he called his best car of the week. “A perfect shape of shot,” he said. “Exactly the way I saw it in my head, exactly what I practiced in the range. I was like, there is.”

Dechambeau, who is making his ninth masters start this week, has also woken up in Augusta’s diabolical greens. He said he has grown to understand the importance of controlling speed and finding a way to go down to two of 50 or 60 meters. In the lead until this week, he devoted himself to himself to come by placing and starting his long shocks on the right line, a discipline he fought, he said, on the way to a third round 75 last year.

Placing on PAR-5 is also not usually in the dechambeau repertoire. But in the 13th Gettable, where the wind exploded his pine shot in the right side of Dogleg, Dechambeau decided to play it safe with his second blow and leave himself a wedge approach. “You know what?” He said he thought to himself. “I can still get up and down for birds if you hit a good third.” He did not, but it was the opinion he counted.

Two holes later, in Par-5 15, he had 236 yards in the elevated green. This time, he went to him, losing the green well, but still giving himself a chance to get up and down. (Again, he did not.)

“It is very situational,” he said about how he is approaching the course. “I can’t give you an accurate, Oh, in the long par-4 what is my mentality? Moda attack mode until you need, you know, set up again and go well, let’s be a little more conservative.”

Jack Nicklaus would tell you this. So will Tiger and Phil and Fred and any other green bed winner. Fraud is, executing in that plan, especially when you are exceeding the second longest hitter in the 15 yard.

“Judah is simply difficult to try to accomplish, just the goal of being patient and understanding,” Dechambeau said. “I feel like I did it better over time. But how do I balance it? Man, this is a great question. I would say that only God knows.”