Bryson DeChambeau of Crushers GC traces up a putt throughout the last spherical of the LIV Golf Event at The Grove Sunday, June 23, 2024 in Faculty Grove. 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 received 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 varieties of golf programs for essentially the most half. At all times can get higher in small areas,” he stated.
“However The Open Championship has at all times been form of a distinct one for me. I’ve performed effectively in sunny, dry, regular circumstances there, however when it will get actually moist and windy and nasty, I’ve at all times struggled.”
DeChambeau shot 76-75 at Royal Troon to complete at 9-over par. His greatest 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 varieties of circumstances, and that was an enormous second for me to go, OK, I believe I can do that if I simply work a bit of bit more durable main into this match in these circumstances.”
With the grand slam season over, DeChambeau returns his focus to the LIV circuit, the place his greatest 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 enjoying 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 effectively all yr,” DeChambeau stated. “We had a bit of 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, transferring 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 advised it was time for the 15-time main winner to contemplate retiring.
“He is most likely essentially the most influential determine within the sport of golf,” DeChambeau stated. “He’s essentially the most influential determine within the sport of golf proper now, and I believe he deserves to play within the majors. He is executed greater than sufficient for this nice sport, and he continues to provide again by enjoying in these tournaments and making an attempt to win. He needs to win. He is a competitor.
“… I believe he can do it nonetheless. He’ll have a tricky highway to beat us kids, however he is received that grit and hearth in him that he is not going to cease till he will get it executed. I would not put it previous him.”
The topic of DeChambeau’s viral video enjoying golf with former President Donald J. Trump additionally got here up.
“It is an honor to play with anyone of that sort of affect, regardless of who it’s on any political aspect,” DeChambeau stated of enjoying with the Republican nominee within the 2024 presidential race.
He stated his folks have prolonged invites to the Democrats to supply comparable content material.
“Whether or not it is (former President Barack) Obama or anybody else on that aspect, I am greater than prepared to play with them,” DeChambeau stated. “I’ve no points in any respect. That is the factor about golf is that the extra we are able to make the most of golf to convey everybody collectively in a cool method, I believe that is the imaginative and prescient of the worldwide sport of golf.”
–Subject Stage Media