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Or has the joy lasted a long time? Bryson DeChambeau (28). After winning the Open USA de 2020 thanks to his new bodybuilding body and winning his eighth PGA title a year later, it seemed that his 6,000 calorie diet based Protein shakes and explosive gym sessions They were giving the desired result. He sought to gain an inordinate power in his shots based on achieving a swing speed that, at the same time, would allow him to participate in the World Cup bomber contests, outside the conventional tournaments to which he was accustomed.
The second part of his physical change strategy was to always do so within the limits of medical safety.
with the constant follow-up of doctors and nutritionists He wanted his body not to suffer any loss. However, at the end of last year his body began to send him warning signs in the form of discomfort in the hip that prevented him from performing the expected kinetic chains at his maximum performance. And he also had warnings in his left hand, that he couldn’t close it when he grabbed the handle of the stick. His whole approach finally fell apart when, after having quietly started the course in January (he finished 25th in Hawaii and missed the cut in San Diego), Bryson fell to the ground in February in the dumbest way.
At that moment, in the Saudi International of the Asian Circuit to which he was invited with a lucrative starting date, he was not yet aware of the seriousness of the injury he suffered playing table tennis with Sergio García and Joaquín Niemann. It was still a moment of relaxation in which the players were immersed to pass the time. But the Californian skidded on an overly polished floor with such bad luck that he landed flat on his damaged left hip and, incidentally, on the same side wrist.
The immediate consequence was their withdrawal from the Red Sea ordeal and a physical complications that began to sow doubts to the player. On the one hand, because the recovery plans for these ailments were around four months, which cast doubt on their participation in the first three majors of the year. On the other, because he realized that his diet and gym strategy was not as beneficial as he believed.
Just before his tremendous physical change in 2020 he had won five tournaments in just eight months. But since then, only one per year; Obviously, any golfer would sign him (especially with a major for his record), but those achievements do not correspond to all the commotion that his bet generated. One of the reasons that he put forward in his physical change strategy was that he did it with great safety because everything was scientifically calculated so that his health would not be harmed in the process.
Nevertheless, your body has said enough. Although it was due to an accident, inactivity has also taken its toll on him and his hip is already giving him overload warnings. In fact, her protein diet does not work if she is not accompanied by the movements in the gym and the break has forced her to leave her in quarantine. The consequence of her not having been able to reach the level of yesteryear in this time is that her swing performance did not exceed 80%, as she recognized last week in the Augusta Masters. But, worst of all, is that by not following the advice of the doctors regarding his rehabilitation, the wrist injury has worsened. He reappeared prematurely in the last World Match-Play, where he did not pass the group stage and, subsequently, did not make the cut in either Texas or Augusta.
Just like it happened to him late last year when he could barely hold the stick after his charity event with Brooks Koepka, his wrist has not taken more. In the end, surgery has been the obligatory step and, from now on, more uncertainty has been created about his future.
The greats in danger
If all goes well, there should be others two months off, which, together with the six weeks that he had already stopped between February and March, add up to the four that had been prescribed in principle. “You know how I am, I couldn’t stay at home standing,” he acknowledged at the National, but his impatience has not detracted from deadlines and it has cost him to pass finally in the operating room. So that the PGA in May and the US Open in June will be lost for sure, it is more than questionable. And in case of being able to arrive on time, it will be necessary to see in what conditions he does it.
This indicates that, as happened in his last appearances, we will have to start forgetting about distance exhibitions. DeChambeau he will have to return to his previous dimensions and try to achieve his victories with the hallmarks that brought him to the forefront of world golf: excessive work on the practice range and a scientific conception of movements based on the same length of all suits to have absolute precision. And obviously a predatory mentality when he smelled the blood of his rivals. He was already a winner and he should get back to it.
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