PGA Championship: The Launchers Plan To Launch At Harding Park

Bryson DeChambeau’s disruption of the pro game with his launch angle attack—a rekindling of early 2000’s Bomb and Gouge—meets its first real threat in the form of a major.

We got Bryson’s answer via a Golf Channel interview with Todd Lewis (I could not find it online but will post if it’s linked.)

Dylan Dethier summarized here on Twitter:

Interesting hearing Bryson break down TPC Harding Park:

-Says the course "suits a bomber"
-Says the setup is straightforward: "Not really too much to it"
-Says he'll be hitting driver as far as he can everywhere, because the rough is playable enough to still hit the green

— Dylan Dethier (@dylan_dethier) August 4, 2020

Tony Finau, another top player with abnormal length off the tee and a desire to try more aggressive approach, said this in his Tuesday press conference at Harding Park.

TONY FINAU: Yeah, yeah, to answer your first question, I am going to open up a little bit more this week. This golf course allows to you do that. Last week, not so much. But this golf course is a big -- it's a big course. I only played the back nine, but I already saw three or four holes where I can go ahead and give it extra and try and attack this golf course that way.I think distance is a big key this week, and you know, you mentioned the rough, we talked about the rough. You've got to hit the fairways. But if I am going to miss a fairway, I want to miss it as far up as I can to give myself a chance to still hit the green.So I've talked in the past about cranking it up a little bit,and I have done that in the last few weeks. Didn't do that that much last week, but this course allows me to kind of open up and do that, so I will.