Bryson DeChambeau stated he discovered extra from lacking the minimize at The Open Championship than he did on the season’s first three majors.
The Crushers GC captain, who gained the U.S. Open and completed second on the PGA Championship, spoke to reporters Thursday on the eve of the LIV Golf United Kingdom occasion at JCB Golf and Nation Membership in Rocester, England.
“Enjoying extra of American-style golf, even at Augusta (the place he completed T6 this yr), I’ve performed there sufficient, and I understand how to play these forms of golf programs for probably the most half. All the time can get higher in small areas,” he stated.
“However The Open Championship has all the time been sort of a unique one for me. I’ve performed properly in sunny, dry, regular situations there, however when it will get actually moist and windy and nasty, I’ve all the time struggled.”
DeChambeau shot 76-75 at Royal Troon to complete at 9-over par. His finest end at The Open was a T8 in 2022.
“Final week simply felt like I broke the seal a bit in that second spherical,” he stated. “Regardless that I did not play that nice, I felt like I may management the golf ball for the primary time in these forms of situations, and that was an enormous second for me to go, OK, I believe I can do that if I simply work slightly bit more durable main into this event in these situations.”
With the grand slam season over, DeChambeau returns his focus to the LIV circuit, the place his finest particular person end this yr was a T3 at Nashville final month.
DeChambeau, 30, enters the UK occasion ranked ninth within the particular person standings, however his Crushers GC group holds a sizeable lead over Legion XIII within the group competitors. He’s taking part in with England’s Paul Casey, India’s Anirban Lahiri and John Catlin, who has been filling in for the injured Charles Howell III.
“I really feel like we have performed properly all yr,” DeChambeau stated. “We had slightly little bit of a lull center of the season, and we have began to choose it again up, and I really feel like our video games are all peaking and trending, shifting on the proper tempo and preparing for that group championship in Dallas. That is what we’re all excited for.”
DeChambeau was requested for his ideas on Tiger Woods, who additionally missed the minimize at The Open, after some had urged it was time for the 15-time main winner to contemplate retiring.
“He is most likely probably the most influential determine within the recreation of golf,” DeChambeau stated. “He’s probably the most influential determine within the recreation of golf proper now, and I believe he deserves to play within the majors. He is performed greater than sufficient for this nice recreation, and he continues to present again by taking part in in these tournaments and making an attempt to win. He desires to win. He is a competitor.
“… I believe he can do it nonetheless. He will have a troublesome street to beat us children, however he is received that grit and fireplace in him that he isn’t going to cease till he will get it performed. I would not put it previous him.”
The topic of DeChambeau’s viral video taking part in golf with former President Donald J. Trump additionally got here up.
“It is an honor to play with anyone of that kind of affect, regardless of who it’s on any political aspect,” DeChambeau stated of taking part in with the Republican nominee within the 2024 presidential race.
He stated his individuals have prolonged invites to the Democrats to supply related content material.
“Whether or not it is (former President Barack) Obama or anybody else on that aspect, I am greater than keen to play with them,” DeChambeau stated. “I’ve no points in any way. That is the factor about golf is that the extra we will make the most of golf to carry everybody collectively in a cool manner, I believe that is the imaginative and prescient of the worldwide recreation of golf.”
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