Despite some brutal conditions at Muirfield Village, Bryson DeChambeau has still made Thursday’s first round of the Memorial Tournament his own personal long drive contest.
The three-hour program will incorporate 50 years of archive footage, edited with modern graphics and commentary, to simulate a “competition” between past champions of different eras on the Old Course at St Andrews.
En route to a five-under-par 67 on Saturday in the Rocket Mortgage Classic that has him three strokes behind leader Matthew Wolff, DeChambeau got testy with a cameraman after he hit a greenside bunker shot on the sixth hole.
To completely whiff on a golf swing is an embarrassment to anybody at any level. To have it happen in a professional tour event – well, we had never seen it, until now.
When he breaks out the big stick, he sends the ball into orbit. The 15th tee on Friday was one of those times, and the sound alone is worth listening to on repeat for the rest of your afternoon
The 15-time Major champ has only played in the tournament one time in his career. In typical Tiger fashion, though, he managed to create an incredible highlight that has stood the test of time.
The group is competing in a number of challenges, one of which was an attempt to set a new Guinness World Records title by making the most putts from a “socially-distant” length of 6.5 feet in 60 seconds or less.
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