Bryson DeChambeau compared the setup of Bolingbrook Golf Club at LIV Chicago to the four major championships after the curtain came down on the breakaway league's regular season.
It was a successful week for DeChambeau's Crushers GC team in Chicago, as the quartet secured their third team victory of the 2024 season. The Crushers finished one shot clear of Jon Rahm's Legion XIII in the team standings having ended on 14-under-par for the tournament.
This means DeChambeau's setup goes into this week's Team Championship in Dallas as the No. 1 seed out of the 13 teams, putting them in prime position to defend the season-long crown they won in Miami 12 months ago.
Speaking after yet another team victory on Sunday, DeChambeau was full of praise for the Bolingbrook, after the choice of setup was initially questioned by LIV critics, with the Illinois track the first municipal course to feature on the Saudi-funded circuit. Illinois a fantastic state," he said post-tournament.
"It's always been a great golf community. Golf courses are always fantastic, and shoot, Bolingbrook -- this golf course played close to a major championship test. There were some shots out there that I'm like, wow, this is playing exactly like a jumper in the U.S. Open would right now.
"The greens that firm with the rough all around it, it was pretty difficult. I'd love to see us come back here and have some more of this type of golf because I truly do love it. I feel like our games are well-suited for a place like this, and hopefully, we'll get another shot."
A similar sentiment was shared by DeChambeau's teammate Paul Casey, who added: "It changed frequently even during the course of a day. Sometimes, as Baan said, there are a lot of crosswinds and some difficult tee shots. Yes, there's some big fairways, but it seems like there's always trouble if you've not got control of the golf ball.
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"But it was the way the golf course changed in its firmness. From this morning or whenever we teed off today, 12:05, it went from soft to concrete again at literally a flick of a switch. It was that that was very difficult to predict. The rough is long, and there are occasions -- yesterday, see if these guys agree, felt like a Chicago major had broken out.
"It was making birdies even sometimes just scrambling par was very, very difficult. It's a hell of a muni." Attention for DeChambeau and co now turns to Dallas where they will be out to defend the title they won a year earlier, but face stern competition by the newly-formed Legion XIII, led by recently-crowned individual champion, Rahm.
"I've got four guys that -- three other guys that literally are going to fight tooth and nails for every single shot, and that's what I wanted starting out a couple years ago," the captain commented. "I wanted guys that would fight for every shot, and that's what makes us pretty special.
"Going into next week, yeah, it's going to be a difficult challenge, but I know they're going to give it their best, and if we do it, then we do it again. That's the job we set out to do. And if we don't, I still love them no matter what."
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