Gainesville, Va. – As much as Bryson Dechambeau loves to practice and compete, the United States Open champion also appreciates the limited LIV golf calendar that gives time to pursue other interests.
Dechambeau arrived at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club for Liv Golf Virginia after a few days characteristically occupied that included a golf round with President Donald Trump and Some short game practice In the southern grass of the White House.
Now the great YouTube star directs its attention to the LIV event of 54 holes that begins on Friday at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club. He said that the thick and fast Greens in RTJ would help prepare it for Oakmont, where he will try next week to win his third open of the United States after Triumphs. Last year at Pinehurst No. 2 and in 2020 in Winged Foot.
“I think Liv gave me the opportunity to spend more time thinking, strategies, preparing my healthy body, ready for specialties in a quite unique way,” said Dechambeau on Wednesday. “For me, it was a great thing. I thought there was an opportunity to do other things in life, and look, do I want to win every tournament that presents? 100%.”
The RTJ event is the eighth of 14 tournaments this year for the Liv Funded Globetting Golf League, financed by Saudi Arabia. Although PGA Tour players have more freedom to establish their own schedules, they usually play more frequently. For Scottie Scheffler, the US Open, the US Open will be the fourth of five events in a seven -week section.
Dechambeau has not competed since the PGA championship last month, Cattle by Scheffler. While Dechambeau enjoyed a friendly round with Trump and published a YouTube short Ending his third victory last month In the monument.
“I’ve been doing some fun secondary missions, yes, there is no doubt,” Dechambeau said.
When competing, nobody practices harder than Dechambeau. He hit 1,029 rank balls, more than anyone in the field, in the masters, where it ended in a fifth draw.
Dechambeau, 31, said he developed his practice habits when he was a teenager, when other Junior golfers in California hit him even though they didn’t seem to try so hard.
“It was derived from that it was not as good as the others and then I realized that I can only be as good as the hard thing I work,” said Dechambeau. “So I became obsessed with hitting crazy amounts of golf balls.”
Known to try to optimize your swing and your team to produce a consistent ball flight, a long and high raffle, Dechambeau also spends time practicing the unusual shots you need to finish tournaments.
“As much as I am a robot, and I try to balance it as straight as possible and only as possible, I still have to hit cuts and drawings and hit strange shots from time to time,” he said. “Giving me those opportunities in the bunker, on the mountain, whatever, has only helped in my golf career.”
After surprising the world of golf four years ago Win the PGA championship At age 50, Phil Mickelson had a moment of honest self -evaluation.
“It is very possible that this is the last tournament that wins. As if I’m being realistic,” Mickelson said on that triumphant Sunday on Kiawah Island.
Mickelson has not won since then, and although he was not anxious to reflect on Wednesday on a race that includes six main and so many famous titles almost famous, he indicated that his competitive future is limited.
He said he wants to help his teammates in the LIV Hyflyers team and that he would move away if he is no longer doing it.
“I’m also going to be 55 years old in a couple of weeks, so I also want to be realistic there. I want this team to succeed. I don’t want to stop it,” Mickelson said. “If I am retaining it, then it’s time for me to keep going and put someone else here.”
Mickelson also acknowledged the possibility that Oakmont is his last open open. It has a record of six finalists in the National Championship, the only specialty that has not won.
“There is a great probability that it is,” said Mickelson, “but I haven’t really thought about it too much.”
The USGA gave Mickelson a special exemption to the Open of US 2021 in Torrey Pins, which he finally did not need because he won in Kiawah a month earlier. However, the US OPEN historically does not grant more than a special exemption to any player, and Mickelson has lost the last three cuts of the US Open. It remains exempt from the other three specialties as previous champion.
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