How A Golf Course Could ‘Bryson-Proof’ Itself, According To Bryson DeChambeau
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2020-10-07
Bryson DeChambeau is a big man with some big aspirations. The U.S. Open champion is in pursuit of dominance, willing to add weight, distance, driver length, or whatever else that might provide him an avenue to his goal.
For the Masters in November, DeChambeau has already outlined his plans for world — erhm … course — domination, and it shouldn’t come as any surprise to golf fans who’ve been following his spearheading of golf’s great distance chase. Bryson plans to overpower Augusta National with brute force, bombing drives over trees, cutting corners and tucking wedges in much the same way he did at Winged Foot.
But “The Scientist” lives up to his moniker enough to know Newton’s third law: every action has an equal and opposite reaction. And the natural reaction of courses like Augusta National to his big-swinging ways could be to revert to “Bryson-proofing” — altering or otherwise adjusting the course to slow (or stop) DeChambeau’s dominance.
Click here to read the full story by James Colgan of GOLF.com...