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US PGA Championship: Slimmer Bryson DeChambeau back to best
DeChambeau has been on the margins but fired himself back into the spotlight with a round of 66 at Oak Hill yesterday
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In the days before LIV Golf, the accepted threat to golf’s ecosystem was a one-man disruptor called Bryson DeChambeau. He piled on 45lbs to destroy courses, monitored his own brain waves and merrily talked of living until he was 130. As the US PGA Championship got underway at Oak Hill, one of the Saudi circuit’s most divisive figures and a true sports radical reminded us what all the fuss had been about.
There was always method in DeChambeau’s madness — and he won the 2020 US Open at the notoriously testing Winged Foot with a bomb-and-gouge approach that had been much-mocked — but then his influence as a game-changer dimmed and he largely disappeared, to injuries and LIV and an obsession with long drives.
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