DeChambeau on the rise

DeChambeau on the rise

By GJ WELLINGHURST Staff Writer

You better remember the name Bryson DeChambeau, because this twenty–four year old golfer out of Southern Methodist University has been red hot the last two weekends.

DeChambeau only has four professional tournament wins in his young career but two of them have been in the opening two weekends of the FedEx Cup. Each first place finish has earned him $1.6 million as well as a firm grasp over first place in the playoffs which wrap up on Sept. 23 with a $32 million total purse.

Even though DeChambeau is one of the youngest players on the entire PGA Tour, he is one of the only players to still sport an old–fashioned flat cap that you would imagine an old Irish man would wear while playing.

There are many famous athletes with signature looks or accessories on the course such as Tiger Wood’s Sunday red polo or Rickie Fowler’s all orange outfits. With DeChambeau’s new stardom, you should expect to see his flat cap become a signature look moving forward.

The most interesting thing about DeChambeau however is that he was a physics major in college and plays his game with an intellectual edge over his opponents.

The unique thing that he does is keep all of his clubs the same length so that his arms are nearly fully extended, and he has almost an identical swing no matter the distance. The only thing that changes with each swing is the degree of the club which controls height. That way he doesn’t have to change anything, and the distance will take care of itself.

Some other notable finishes from the past weekend include Justin Rose and Cameron Smith finishing second and third respectively.

Although Woods has been on a hot streak and has been challenging the top spot in several of the major tournaments this year, he finished with relatively disappointing seven strokes under par this weekend.

Phil Michelson wowed everyone on Monday by shooting an astounding 63 which is one of the lowest scores in one day by anyone this PGA season.