Bryson DeChambeau finished this year averaging 322.1 yards off the tee. This is the highest single season distance mark of all time. He edged out Cameron Champ by less than a yard.
With all of the distance talk, the previous record was from over 15 years ago when Hank Keuhne averaged over 321 yards.
That stat would point to one logical conclusion: bomb and gouge. I thought we went through this years ago already.
Developers are getting antsy for golf course land.
Excellent point! I remember reading an article about the opening of Greg Norman’s new course in Hobe Sound, Florida. This was years ago, and it was an interview with Jack Nicklaus. Norman invited a bunch of Tour guys down to play the thing prior to opening. After the round he asked for their opinion. Nicklaus said that he told him that the forced carries over water and swamp were too far for the average recreational golfer. The fairways too narrow, the bunkering too penal, and, as good as Nicklaus was, he had a hard time holding a long iron on the hood of a car!
This was supposed to be a resort course, but Norman was full of himself and wanted to punish people less skilled than he was! This was supposed to be a resort course, and Nicklaus told him that it would go broke if he didn’t fix it!
Hey, kudos to Bryson. He got it done. I still can’t stand him and think that he’s a goofball but he is a major champion.
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I’d say that Bryson and Wolff proved that narrative to be false. There isn’t much of a penalty from the rough when you can just hit 8-iron or PW out of it and still make it to the green.
I’ll be interested to see what happens when Bryson puts the 48" driver into play. A 48" driver with 5 degrees of loft could be interesting to watch.
Everyone wants to make this all about how he transformed his body but you need to look at the specs of his clubs too. The clubs are playing just as much of a role as his body is, especially when you consider Wolff, who isn’t anywhere near as beefy as Bryson is but hung with him until his game fell apart.
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I respectfully disagree… they were part of a tight leaderboard. It wasn’t like they were 10 strokes ahead of the field sitting -15. The course lay out definitely made play more challenging. To his credit, Bryson was above average off the tee versus the field. He was the only player to finish under par and it was only by six strokes. Wolff struggled with accuracy down the stretch and he suffered. There were quite a few strong and long hitters in the field whose scores deteriorated because they couldn’t find the fairway. If anything, it proved course conditions can dictate how low these guys can go… and it wasn’t like Bryson was tearing it up in the FEDEX playoffs where his length should’ve given him an advantage.
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