It is no secret that Bryson DeChambeau is a perfectionist, from designing his own clubs to perfectly match his preferences to soaking his golf balls in bath salts to find any subtle imperfections from the manufacturing process.
So it is no surprise that the U.S. Open champion can often feel "stressed" on the practice range if things are not going to plan. But it is the level of detail that separates the LIV Golf star from the mere mortals.
During a recent interview on the range with GOLF, DeChambeau admitted his most common miss is a "chunk" – striking the ground before the ball for those not clued in on golf parlance – but that is not what stresses him out the most.
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Instead of obsessing purely over poor contact, DeChambeau explained he is far more concerned with what happens after contact, specifically his ball flight and maintaining a desirable amount of curve in the air. A tight draw, the 30-year-old's stock shot, is good enough to get him around the course, regardless of whether he strikes the ball heavy or thin.
“What gets me stressed is improper curvature,” DeChambeau said. “If I’m thinning or chunking it, I’m OK with it. But if it starts curving too much one way, that’s when I really get stressed.”
“That’s when you’ll see me hit golf balls [on the practice range] for quite a while. So it’s just getting back to basics, yeah.”
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DeChambeau is certainly an independent and innovative thinker when it comes to the game of golf. He gave a detailed explanation of his habit of dunking his golf balls in bath salts midway through his U.S. Open triumph at Pinehurst No. 2 last month.
“I put my golf balls in Epsom salt," he said. "I’m lucky enough that Connor, my manager, does that now. I don’t have to do it. But essentially we float golf balls in a solution to make sure that the golf ball is not out of balance.
"There was a big thing back in the day where golf balls are out of balance, and it’s just because of the manufacturing process. There’s always going to be an error, especially when it’s a sphere and there’s dimples on the edges. You can’t perfectly get it in the center.
“So what I’m doing is finding pretty much the out-of-balanceness of it, how much out of balance it is. Heavy slide floats to the bottom, and then we mark the top with a dot to make sure it’s always rolling over itself.
"It kind of acts like mud. If there’s too much weight on one side, you can put it 90 degrees to where the mud is on the right-hand side or the mud is on the left-hand side. I’m using mud as a reference for the weight over there. It’ll fly differently and fly inconsistently.
“For most golf balls that we get, it’s not really that big of a deal. I just try to be as precise as possible, and it’s one more step that I do to make sure my golf ball flies as straight as it possibly can fly because I’m not that great at hitting it that straight.”
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