As you watch the US Open this week, you might find yourself grappling with the greatest question that looms large over men’s golf in 2024.Forget the will-they-or-won’t-they of the PGA-PIF talks. This is what is truly confounding conflicted golf fans more as the year progresses.
In 2020, the new decade had arrived and, with it, came the inescapable feeling that something B.A.D. was brewing. DeChambeau did little to allay traditionalists’ fears, and less to hide his smugness over the unrest he was single-handedly creating.By this point, DeChambeau had already presented as something of a golfing curiosity via his quirky methods. For example, he played with clubs that were all the same length, and went through a phase of using a compass to find “true pin locations” before the act was banned.
DeChambeau was now rapidly moving up the world rankings, proving that accuracy off the tee barely mattered if you hit superhuman distances. Given he hadn’t finished inside the top-25 in three previous trips to Augusta — where distance doesn’t count for everything — DeChambeau’s comments did nothing to endear himself to the golfing public. It didn’t help that talking down Augusta National is sporting sacrilege akin to attacking Lord’s, Wimbledon, or the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
That event saw DeChambeau bash a 370-yard drive across the lake at Bay Hill’s sixth hole, with him willing the ball over the water with a raised-arms, Frat Guy gesture that is now iconic. The former world No.4 also secretly suffered a crisis of confidence, saying that there were “many times” he simply didn’t know where he was going to hit the ball off the tee after putting all his focus into distance.
Adding to the picture of a man spiralling out of control were scenes at LIV Golf’s Chicago stop in 2022, when DeChambeau bizarrely clotheslined himself with a gallery rope.It should’ve come as no surprise, though. “I’m telling you … and if I can get that mix of 2018 and 2020 then I’ll be difficult to beat on my day. I’m finally in a place where I feel I can play elite golf again,” he said.DeChambeau belatedly exploded in the back-half of 2023, making good on his promise that he was getting back to his best.
DeChambeau shot 20-under at Valhalla to take the clubhouse lead on the final day, only for Xander Schauffele to edge him out by one shot to win his first major.
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