The ultimate legacy of his astonishing win at Winged Foot – a course that was supposed to be the antithesis to and kryptonite for the DeChambeau Style – is that we can no longer dismiss him as a pretentious pseudoscientist.
Bryson DeChambeau bullied both Winged Foot and his competition in winning the 120nd US Open by six shots. The victory was the culmination of a full-body transformation and a pivotal moment in the distance debate. We’re discussing all that and much more in our 18 Parting Thoughts from Winged Foot.
Whatever ones lingered about whether Bryson DeChambeau’s plan to bulk up and hit the ball as far as possible would hold up in the cauldron and nuance of Major championship golf have been answered. This week at Winged Foot, he killed nuance.
Because of the 13 cancelled events, plenty of big-name golfers who thought they had time to play their way into the top 125 are now sitting on the bubble.
No warning, no explanation; he just gave the prosthetic leg to the most famous golfer on the planet. Even more remarkably, Tiger accepted it as though this were the most normal thing in the world.
After winning the FedEx Cup title in August and taking PGA Tour player-of-the-year honours, few would have blamed Rory McIlroy for easing through the rest of 2019.
