Bryson DeChambeau’s weakness? Brandel Chamblee has thoughts

Bryson DeChambeau (famous golf scientist, YouTube Magnate and part-time superhero) can do things with golf balls, and no one else on Earth can match. These skills have made him a great success in craftsmanship. It’s also very interesting. That same year, he won the American Amateur and NCAA individual. He won the U.S. Open and then won his nine PGA Tour titles. He finished sixth or higher in six of his last 10 major starts. He won three championships on the LIV tour he participated in in 2022 and was the undisputed best and most marketable talent in the league, which could earn his honor other When possible, he re-escalated the nine-digit transaction with a deep loop.

The truth is, DeChambeau (we can be sure) no Superman, even he is, even Superman is not invincible. DeChambeau’s K-Stone? It comes in the form of July every year, with baked fairways, pot bunkers and a breeze blowing in the sea, which wreaks badly on the shells. Environment: Open Champion. DeChambeau has only one top ten in the seven Opens (St Andrews in 2022); he can only finish more than 51 times once in the remaining six games and missed three layoffs, including last year at Royal Troon Open.

DeChambeau’s Bugaboo held a conference call this week with the golf channel’s excellent “Live from” Crew: Rich Lerner, Brandel Chamblee and Paul McGinley. When a reporter asked the analysts if they saw anything in DeChambeau’s game, it led them to think that next week’s Open at Royal Prothush might be more suitable for Dechambeau, Chamblee, first of all:

“I would say no, it’s not related to the Open. His only top ten came out in St Andrews, which is understandable – the fairway was 150 yards wide. He missed the 2019 layoffs. He was a different player. It was a different player. It was a former. It was a former. Since he was starting from Covid, he was definitely in his game, but it was so important that it was important to control on the Partway.”

Of course, DeChambeau can still put the golf course in suffocation. But in recent years, he has used a small amount of hammering method to win his 2020 U.S. Open. Or, at least he said he had. “I’m often more strategic,” he said. “I’m not a risky person. I do take risks. I like to take risks. But sometimes it does. I feel like over time I realize when it comes, when it’s essentially unwilling to go, when there’s no point.”

This is a claim that is difficult to do fact checking. Deschamps still murdered the ball. He has an average driving distance of 331 yards this season, and he is also leading in 2023 and 24. So that doesn’t mean he’s hit 4 times in every serving area now. But if DeChambeau says he is playing a more conservative golf brand, who do we doubt him?

Chamblee continues to face the special challenge of connecting golf to DeChambeau’s game: “You don’t see him flying too much on the ball. I don’t see him shooting from left to right when you have a hard time with the wind. If you can’t deal with it. If you can’t fight it. Savoir-fairejust open the open championship under strong wind conditions, especially argued on Portrush. ”

Savoir-fairejust like in expertise, like knowing how to fly a ball, when the wind blows when it is open, it is not a good choice but a necessary one.

It’s not just Charblee preaching from a high place. DeChambeau had a similar view on his own game before last year’s Open. Speaking of his iron attack, Deschamps said: “For me, it will be about the length of the backstroke this week to control that height. It will be tough. It will always be tough. It will always be tough. It will always be tough, left and right, left and right into the wind. It’s very demonic.

DeChambeau also cited the launch on his Titanic drive, which was a “hard challenge” on the fairway, which could be twice as high as the runway. “I wouldn’t say it’s a problem; it’s a challenge.”

DeChambeau missed a three-pointer with a 76-75 hit.

Back in the call, DeChambeau’s “Iron Play” topic caught Lerner’s attention. He shifted to host mode, asking Chamblee and McGinley a provocative question: Does DeChambeau need to “figure how to be a more nuanced and polished Ironman before he can see him as a truly great all-around player?”

“Yes, absolutely,” Chamblee said. “If he has the chance to be the player he wants to be, he has to improve his iron battle. It is undoubtedly his weakness. It is the weakest aspect of his game, and the most important thing in the game is part of the game.”

LIV statistics are limited, so it’s hard to know exactly how DeChambeau’s Iron Play is closely related to peers. But he have Reg (7th on LIV) hit his Greens 70.78%, more or less matching the percentage of greens in each of his first two LIV seasons. Also, for its value, DeChambeau got a stroke on SG: Near Green in his last three Opens and PGA Championships. Yes, we’re dealing with a small sample here, but there’s still evidence that it’s still reasonable if DeChambeau’s Iron Play isn’t Elite.

Then McKinley took the weight.

“I’ll respond to what Brand said,” he began. “I don’t think the flying of the high ball didn’t play to his advantage. He tried to knock the ball down and hit three quarters of the shot. Again, it wasn’t a force. He tried to hit the ball left with a iron, it wasn’t a force.” McKinley added: “Of course, Bryson longed for a strong cross wind last year at Royal Troon.”

However, McKinley allows, next week’s forecast looks good, and Portrush isn’t the savage of some other open-ended sites. And, yes, Bryson is still Bryson.

“Many of us have consistently competed in these big championship matches, especially given that he didn’t go all out because he didn’t go all out for the limitations of iron and found himself competing for four of the last six major tournaments,” McKinley said. “Given the benign weather conditions of the wind, rather than the huge cross winds on Royal Troon last year, this is perhaps a more Bryson-friendly exam.”

Testing began Thursday.