Bryson DeChambeau is the funniest golfer in the world. Every tournament he goes to attests to it. He won the US Open with one of the best bunker shots as far as he can remember and the second day of the LIV Golf Andalucía confirmed it again.
His first moment appeared on the 14th hole. He had combined two bogeys and birdies and reached the section that ascends to the highest place in Valderrama. From 90 meters it caused a roar. Or rather, two. The first because the ball hit the mast hard and fell plumb into the hole; The second was the ovation. He has become a specialist in hits like that. “Yes, I was lucky and I am on a good streak in my life. You have ups and downs in your career, and, on the other hand, I have only made one hole in one in my life. So, obviously, I am down in that aspect I don’t know, golf is like that. Strange things are going to happen to you. There are many players who have made 40 holes in one and many others who have made only one like me. It is a crazy game that you can’t stop watching, laughing and. love”, he slipped.
His show continued at Los Gabilones, the par 5 famous for Miguel Ángel Jiménez’s albatross in 1994, where Tiger Woods always had a problem, and where the golfer with the great punch had found his grave on Friday when, after sending the ball into the water with the third shot, he paid for it with a double bogey. “If something bad happens, you just have to move on, that’s what I always say,” he told MARCA. And he applied his maxim.
He visited the pond again, this time with an iron that did not obey his calculations. The scientific golfer, the one who has all the shafts of his clubs the same size and immerses the balls in hot water with salt to check their quality, in addition to measuring the atmospheric pressure before each round, calculated that he had “75 percent of cross the lake, but the ball was thrown” and in the boat it went directly to the pond. He dropped and made the putt to save par.
Bryson DeChambeau, in Valderrama
The frustration lasted less than the ice in the glasses of another torrid day on the slope of the 17th hole. “I use a lot of Finding Nemo references, but being like Dory, understanding it 30 seconds later is tough. If you can do that and focus on what you can do, you’ll be in a better place mentally all the time,” he added.
And, in the 4th, which was the sixteenth of his round, he repeated the play. He came off a birdie on the previous hole and launched from the fairway onto the green. He went straight into the water. But from the drop zone he took another fabulous shot to leave it just over two meters away and make the hole. At Valderrama, the course he believes is ideal for US Open winners like him because it requires a lot of strategy “and a lot of wedge control,” nothing is more exciting than watching DeChambeau.
