If you are a very big golf fan, you may have noticed something this past summer in the NCAA Championship and U.S. Amateur Championship. What you might have noticed was that Bryson DeChambeau can play some golf. The other thing you might have noticed was that he has one of the strangest golf swings ever. Just take a look.
At first glance, one might say "What even is this kid doing he looks like an idiot out there." Well, that idiot joined elite company this past year by winning both the NCAA individual championship and the U.S. Amateur Championship, joining Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and Ryan Moore. It's weird to think that this kid from Southern Methodist University could spark so much interest in a golf swing, but all it takes is for someone to watch this kid play one round of golf for them to be so intrigued. If you don't know golf that well I'll just say that the general population of golfers does not swing anything like that. Bryson contours and develops his golf swing according to the book "The Golfing Machine" written over fifty years ago. It is a book that is comprised of analytical evidence along with the use of physics to explain the perfect golf swing. Just a warning, I do not recommend trying to emulate what Bryson does because he only uses one variation of the golf swing in the book. But what he does seems to work for him. He swings on one plane, which is very hard to do. His golf swing really turned off college coaches when he was coming out of high school, which they probably regret after seeing his success at Southern Methodist.
Moving on from his weird golf swing, there are other things that make this kid just stand out among the crowd of all golfers, even professionals. Generically, in about 99% of golf sets, the length of the clubs get shorter as you go down the line of clubs. As you might have guessed, Bryson is part of that 1%. He has custom-made golf clubs that are all of equal length. This is because his one plane swing would have to shift every time he changed his club. Since he wanted everything to be as close to the same as he could get it, making the clubs the same length was a good idea. The length of his 3-iron is the same length as his pitching wedge. It just does not make sense, but somehow Bryson performs so well with it.
Another small side note: He wears those old British/Scottish caps (see above video). Also, I apologize if these are not British or Scottish, I did not do my research on them, but I still think they look cool. Another side note: Bryson competed in the Masters Tournament this past weekend- I'm writing this article before it finished, but after the first round he is even par. He will never perfect the golf swing, because it depends on the person and body type. Strangely enough, I have a feeling this kid will go down as one of the greatest golfers of all time. It is very early in his career considering he is still an amateur, but hey I like to make early predictions.
