Chris Como has been working with the golfer for two years and says the US Open champion is ‘extremely curious and driven’
It is quite the achievement to pull attention away from Tiger Woods, the defending champion at a Masters to be played in November without galleries. Bryson DeChambeau’s propensity to break with convention is instead golf’s story of this year. Should Woods dress DeChambeau in a Green Jacket next Sunday evening, the scale of reaction promises to be extraordinary.
DeChambeau was not exactly a run-of-the-mill PGA Tour player before Covid-19 struck but few could have expected the scale or style of his subsequent rise. Victory in Detroit in July preceded US Open glory. The 27-year-old used lockdown to overhaul his body; the outcomes included 40lb in weight gain, a rise to No 5 in the world – he is now sixth – and Instagram confirmation of 400-yard drives. It isn’t golf as we know it; but it most certainly works. At Winged Foot, DeChambeau won the US Open by half a dozen shots.
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He isn’t just a guy who hits it far; look at his putting at Winged Foot, his wedge play. He definitely has those skills
