Dhe unusual equipment – all irons are the same length – to bathe the pseudo-scientific actions of the former physics student, such as every golf ball in epsom salt, to ensure that they are completely round, and with a circle on the green in the so-called “Greenbook”, the determining the exact location of the hole (which was forbidden) – all of this earned Bryson DeChambeau the nickname “mad scientist”. None of the colleagues adopted this craziness. But the latest experiment by the 26-year-old American could find imitators: build muscle masses with strength training and hit the ball much further than everyone else. On Sunday he demonstrated impressively that you can also win in professional golf with sheer power. Thanks largely to his huge tees, he secured his sixth $ 1.35 million win on the PGA Tour with the best final round of 65 and a total of 265 strokes (23 under par) at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit (Michigan) moved up from tenth to seventh in the world rankings.
DeChambeau thus crowned his grandiose presentation of the past four “ghost tournaments” without fans, in which he never needed more than 70 strokes in one round, remained a total of 69 strokes under par and took the places three, six, eight and now one. However, his compatriot Matthew Wolff helped him on Sunday, who had gone three rounds ahead of DeChambeau in the final round. Wolff, who can hit the ball easily over 300 meters with one of the most unusual swings in professional golf, went under five bogeys in the first ten holes, while his chase DeChambeau got four birdies. In the end, the 21-year-old Wolff finished second, three strokes behind. American veteran Kevin Kisner, who finished third, said: “Bryson has completely changed the way golf is played.”
