There was just over a year between the two episodes. The first occurred in May 2021, when Bryson DeChambeau was repeatedly booed at Oak Hill during the PGA Championship. The dispute between the PGA Tour and LIV is at its peak and the Californian from Modesto has exchanged US dollars for Saudi petrodollars. The second incident happened on Sunday. Your photo illustrates this piece. DeChambeau is in ecstasy after this Tie your second US Open. The grandstand surrounding the 18th green at No. 2 at Pinehurst, home to the 124th edition of the tournament, the 1,000th championship organized by the United States Golf Association (USGA) in its entire history, burned down.
“It was the hit of my life,” he says later. And it has been. His Approach On the 18th it will remain in the retinas of the thousands who saw it live and the millions who watched it on television. From now on fans who come to Pinehurst will try to recreate it. And his even putting, and his joyous unbridled celebration. A quarter-century’s worth of memorabilia from the late Payne Stewart. Two wins at the US Open already, the first at Winged Foot four years ago. Another at the US Amateur at Olympia Fields in 2015. Virtually anyone can win, that’s how randomly beautiful this tournament is. Surnames remembered by two or more people narrow the circle. Jones, Hogan, Nicklaus, Irwin, Hagen, Sarazen… Bryson DeChambeau will always be there. From a golfing perspective, immortal.
Band-Aids for a Broken Heart by Rory McIlroyIt is the product of a metamorphosis that leaves a lesson in life. Because the general public fell in love with DeChambeau when he started to be himself. He abandoned the bodybuilder pose after an injury and a bizarre diet that brought on several food intolerances. He took an equally methodical and eccentric approach (he plays with it today). Rods made from 3D printing) more than what earned him the nickname ‘the scientific golfer’, but more complete. Distance was no longer his mantra, or at least not the only mantra. He has won this US Open with his putts and wedges, doing whatever he had to do to hole outs from two metres down and stopping balls on greens as slippery as glass.
But, most of all, he embraced people. And the people who mocked him for a few months in that childish fight with Brooks Koepka embraced him. His YouTube channel, where he covers both aspects of sports and life, is successful. His interactions with fans go viral. One day he scolds an adult for withholding a signed ball addressed to a child, another asks that he not be scolded for not playing driver off the tee… A crowd dusts off Pinehurst after he wins his second US Open At Pinehurst’s wake, caressing his hat with every shout of encouragement, with every “Come on, Bryson!”, he spends an hour signing autographs. “They just make comments that make me want to have a conversation with them,” he explains. It’s a circus that doesn’t feel forced. It comes across alone, because he’s abandoned the need to be liked, something that paradoxically makes people like him more. It’s back to a more refined version, even more palatable show.And now that golf is in a calmer mood, Rory McIlroy’s victory has been nothing short of frustrating.
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DeChambeau defends Pinehurst from European attack
