Bryson Dechambeau – Golf’s famous scientist, Magnat on YouTube And part-time superhero-can do things with a golf ball that no one else on the planet can match. These skills have made him extremely successful in his craft. Fun to see, too. He won the amateur individual and NCAA in the same year. He won one US Open, and then another, which counts among his nine titles PGA Tour. In the six of his last 10 beginnings, he has ended in 6th place or better. In the Liv tour, which he joined in 2022, he has won three times and is the best undisputed talent of the League and the most trading, an estimate that will apparently win it other Agreement with nine figures at the possible event that he re-up with the deep pocket circuit.
Thing is, dechambeau (we are quite safe) is not Superman, and even if he is, even the superman was not invincible. Dechambeau’s Kryptonite? It comes around every July in the form of ripe roads, pot bunkers and salty sea breeze that wreak havoc in balloon. Setting: Open Championship. In seven open starts, Dechambeau has only one end of Top-10 (2022, St. Andrews); In those six remaining appearances he only ended once better than 51 and lost three cuts, including last year open to the Royal Troon.
The Bugaboo of Dechambeau appeared this week in a conference call with the excellent “Live From” Channel Channel “” Live From “crew: Rich Lerner, Brandel Chamblee and Paul McGinley. When a reporter asked analysts if they would have seen anything in the Dechambeau’s game that made them think the next week open to Royal It can better fit Dechambeau, Chamblee, speaking first, said:
“I would say no, not as it relates to the open. His only top 10 came St. Andrewswhich is understandable – the streets of the fair are 150 meters wide. He lost the cut here in 2019. He was another player. That was pre-boot. Since he has come out of Covid, he certainly turned his game, but it is simply so important to have the right track control in the Portrarian. “
Dechambeau, of course, can still place golf courses in Chokeholds. But in recent years he has hired less of the hammer and revenge access to him 2020 US Open standing. Or, at least, he said there is. “I’m a little more strategic more often than not,” he said a few days before winning the US Open 2024 in Pinehurst. “I’m not such a risk receiver. I make risks. I like to take risks. But there are times for it. I feel like time went on, I understand when it is that time and when I essentially not go for it, when it doesn’t make sense.”
This is a difficult claim for controlling facts. Dechambeau still kills the ball; His steering living average car distance This season is 331 yard, and he also led the category in 2023 and ’24. So it’s not like him is now hitting 4-and-unints from every tee. But if Dechambeau says he is playing a more conservative golf brand, who should we doubt?
Chamblee continued with the special challenges that connects the golf poses with Dechambeau’s game: “You don’t see him working on his ball flight down. knowledgeJust playing a championship open in windy conditions, and especially so, I would argue, in Portrush. “
KnowledgeAs in knowledge, how to know how to fly your ball, a ability that, when the wind blows into the open, is not a pleasant thing, but a necessity.
This is not just preaching Chamblee from above. Dechambeau echoes a similar feeling about his game before last year’s Open. Speaking of his iron game, Dechambeau said: “For me it will be about controlling that height through only the back length for me this week. It will be difficult. Alwayys is always difficult, right to left in the wind, right to right in the wind, and down. Alone very diabolic, and just try to keep it under it.”
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Dechambeau also quoted participation in his titanic discs as a “difficult challenge” in the right roads that can double as track. “I wouldn’t say it’s a problem; it’s a challenge.”
Dechambeau shot 76-75 and lost the cut with three.
Return to the call, Dechambeau’s theme of the Iron Game had attracted Lerner’s attention. Morphorized in host mode, he made Chamblee and McGinley a provocative question: Should Dechambeau “understand how to be a more nuanced and polished iron player before considering him a really great player?”
“Yes, definitely,” Chamblee said. “If he has any chance to be the player he wants to be, he must improve his iron game. This is certainly his weakness. It is the weakest aspect of his game, and is part of the game that matters most.”
Liv’s statistics are limited, so it is difficult to know exactly how Dechambeau’s iron game accumulates against its peers. But he THERE Hit 70.78% of his RG greens this season (7 best in Liv), which more or less matches its percentage of greens in each of its previous two seasons Liv. Also, for what is worth it, in each of its last three beginnings of the US Open and PGA begins, Dechambeau has chosen field strokes: approach green. Yes, we are dealing with a small sample set here, but it is still evidence that if Dechambeau’s iron game is not elite, it is still healthy.
Then McGinley weighed.
“I would echo what Brandel said,” he began. “I think the high ball flight does not play at its strengths. He struggles to overthrow the ball down and play three -quarters shots. Again, this is not a force. He struggles to hit the ball left to his cuffs, this is not a force.” McGinley added, “Undoubtedly with strong intersections last year in Royal Troon, Bryson was left desired.”
But, McGinley allowed, the forecast looks good for next week, and Portrush is not brutal that some other open sites may be. And, yes, Bryson is still Bryson.
“Many of us have been wrong how constantly he has competed in these big championships, especially given that he is not flying with full power in terms of his own iron -game restrictions and finds himself in controversy four of the last six championships,” McGinley said. “With benign weather conditions in terms of wind and not the heavy intersections you had last year at Royal Troon, maybe this is an exam that will suit Bryson better.”
The test begins on Thursday.
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