McCord On DeChambeau: "He’s the next game changer."
/We talked Bryson DeChambeau on Morning Drive yesterday, namely to live vicariously through the reigning U.S. Amateur Champion as he hangs out in the desert beneath the Santa Rosas, talking golf with big names (Phil), walking tightropes and getting ready to make trips to Augusta National. Rough life, but he'll work through it.
Tim Rosaforte followed up on his enjoyable all-things-Bryson Golf World report with a Morning Drive reveal that DeChambeau is in Carlsbad this week talking to companies and has accepted invites to all three European Tour desert stops starting this month.
From Rosaforte's report on hanging with Phil and the gang at the recent Straight Down Invitational:
“We were just loving the time spent together, one golf geek to another, talking about fun stuff and trying to figure out a couple things on my end from the wedging aspect,” DeChambeau said of his conversation with Mickelson. “He was talking away, and I was listening. It was a lot of fun.”
At the Straight Down, DeChambeau had a locker-room conversation with Gary McCord about his theories that drew an interested audience, including Brandel Chamblee. Whether he’s quoting Homer Kelly’s Golfing Machine, talking about the artist in Einstein or not fearing failure like other great scientists, DeChambeau and his methods don’t come across as madness. Not with his record as an amateur and his potential as a pro.
“You talk to this kid, he’s brilliant,” McCord told me last week. “I tell guys he’s the next game changer. Not because of what he’s doing, but the fact he figured out a process at 15 years of age. He’s smarter than everybody else.”
Rosaforte's Morning Drive reveal: