Farmingdale, NY-after his practice with nine holes Tuesday Bethpage BlackBryson Dechambeau slammed punches and became good with his three partners playing in the 18th green, implying their course work was done for the day. It was not only. As his partners and their caditors were bought around green, Dechambeau caught His driver and strolled in the first half adjacent. He wanted to answer a question that has been in the minds of many this week: Can Dechambeau – which we know will play in the fourth opening match in this 45th Ryder Cup – direct the first green?
Well, we know that he I have. More to the point: Will he try, and if so, will he succeed?
In the score card, PAR-4 1 plays 397 yards. But as the crowd flies, in what is a fair doglegation preserved by a group of trees in the inner corner, the tee-in-green distance in 1 is more like 365 yards, courtesy and a new, driven to increased for the event. Yes, 365 is still a long way, even for Dechambeau, the average of the distance of which in Liv this season was 328.8 yard. But this figure does not approach Dechambeau’s full range. When Dechambeau fully cooked one-witnessing the 410-yard bomb he dismissed in Liv Mexico city earlier this year-he can make a PAR-4 look meaningless.
This was clear during Dechambeau Tuesday-cleaning Mash sessionwhere he started one ball after another – seven all over – over the corner of Dogleg. Bethpage’s locals call it stretch of trees and rough “Bermuda Triangle” for his tendency to swallow live balls – but none of Dechambeau’s shooting was in any threat to go. For one, any air ball with air with air with the room to save. For another, the US team had a discoverer from the 1st green, radiating the result of each explosion again in Dechambeau. From the favorable point of this reporter, it was difficult to show if Dechambeau accomplished his mission, but despite he still seemed to enjoy training. The measures of the “USA”-the masses in the ancestor after him also did.
On Thursday morning, Dechambeau was asked if he thought the 1st green driving was accessible. “Crosswind, in the wind, you need to have nearly 200 ball speeds to get there.” (Which is in Dechambeau’s wheel house.) And in the direction of the road? “Undoubtedly mobile,” he said, adding, “if it’s up to the road, I could definitely take the front end if the conditions are not too soft.”
conditions WILL Be mild Friday, because of the glowing and distant rain that moistens Bethpage on Wednesday evening on Thursday. When Ben Griffin visited the interview room Thursday morning on Thursday, a light foot was still falling and fans with stars were still looking for shelter under a sea of umbrellas.
Bryson outside here Cutting the corners with a full perspective directs the first. That was his seventh attempt. The crowd that grasps it. It is not difficult to imagine it by opening this bomb Ryder cup on the same hero line. pic.twitter.com/g2za30rm2u
– Alan Bazable (@alan_basable) September 23 2025
“It’s a little rainy, but I bet if Bryson came out now he could do it,” Griffin said when asked about the possibility of the first appearance that everyone is hurting to see. “I witnessed it doing it two days ago.”
Griffin said Dechambeau is likely the only American player with the muscles he reaches there (apparently Rory Mcilroy may also be). “Everyone else is probably playing it on the left,” he said. “I know of course I’m now.”
I asked the Handicap Griffin’s chances of dechambeau to go home.
“If I were to give him 10 balls in the right conditions – if he knows he can get there – he will hit three probably on the surface or on the eve, and five will be in a bunker or (only) off green,” with the remaining left or right. “Maybe a bad one,” Griffin added.
What do Bethpage regulations think? I also asked a couple of them: Mike Pomerico and Mike Auerbach, both are members of the Nassau player club, a close Bethpage society with a serious game.
Neither Pomerico nor Auerbach have played the hole from the new Tee, but in their roles like marshals this week, they have had many opportunities to see the good to play it.
To drive the green to 1, Pomerico said, the required blow is a high, arched pallor that carries up to green. A slope before Green will prevent players from running the ball up. When asked about the potential for Dechambeau to create some fireworks at the opening, Pomerico said: “It will not shock me. Nothing Bryson Dechambeau shocked me anymore.”
Auerbach agreed that feat was possible, and he hopes that Bethpage State Park will keep the Tee box in the game after Ryder Cup.
“Boys will want to see if they can do it, too, especially if Rory or Bryson do it,” he said. “It would be a fun relic to keep around.”
