this is getting ridiculous
Bryson DeChambeau hits a putter off the tee 282 yards … because of course he does
Bryson DeChambeau has become a Golf Mad Libs at this point. Every headline is more random and out-of-nowhere than the one before it. Just this year, we have “Bryson DeChambeau rips sign from ground as wild second round continues,” “Bryson DeChambeau tackling Augusta National with 'one-of-a-kind' 3D-printed irons” and “Bryson DeChambeau reveals he had a pool party with the U.S. Open trophy on the Fourth of July.” Now, we have the two-time major winner striping it off the tee with his putter at Maridoe Golf Club (the LIV Golf Dallas location) as part of a new Grant Horvat YouTube video.
The stuff this guy can do doesn’t always make sense, but we’re grateful that one of the best golfers in the world is so open to some of the most bizarre challenges. Take it away, Bryson.
The idea behind the nearly 50-minute Horvat-DeChambeau showdown is that Bryson must use whatever club Siri recommends. A random number generation between 1-14 will pick every club for DeChambeau over the nine-hole stroke match, and it just so happens that DeChambeau had to take on the 591-yard par 4 with his putter.
For almost every other golfer in the world, a putter on a near 600-yard hole would be a death sentence. For DeChambeau, it’s a better drive than most of us could dream of. It also appears that Bryson hit it so hard that he bent his club.
“I just smoked that. I want to see how far I actually hit that,” DeChambeau says. “270, oh my gosh. Oh, it says 282 actually. That’s where it’s from.”
DeChambeau followed up the opening-shot putter with a driver off the deck from just over 300, a putter out of the rough and a driver to finish out the hole on the green. Real sicko stuff right there.
Spoiler alert: the two ended up playing an all-square match at one over until everyone realized they got the score wrong on the last hole and Bryson DeChambeau had actually won. Although to be fair, if you’re hitting it 280 yards off the tee with a putter, you’ve already won. Everything else is just gravy.
