Bryson DeChambeau is renowned for his obsessive attention to detail, and the LIV Golf star has revealed the one thing that gets him most ‘stressed’ on the practice range
Bryson DeChambeau is widely known as a perfectionist, from designing his own clubs and soaking his golf balls in bath salts to detect any manufacturing flaws, and he has revealed the one thing that leaves him “stressed” on the practice range when things don’t go as planned.
The US Open champion’s attention to detail sets him apart from his peers and in an interview with GOLF on the range, DeChambeau confessed that his most frequent mistake is a “chunk” – hitting the ground before the ball, for those unfamiliar with golf jargon.
However, that is not what gets on his nerves the most. Rather than focusing solely on poor contact, DeChambeau revealed that he is more worried about what happens afterwards, specifically the flight of his ball and maintaining an acceptable amount of curve in the air.
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A tight draw, the 30-year-old’s stock shot, is sufficient to get him around the course, regardless of whether he hits the ball heavy or thin.
“What gets me stressed is improper curvature,” DeChambeau said. “If I’m thinning or chunking it, I’m OK with it. But if it starts curving too much one way, that’s when I really get stressed. That’s when you’ll see me hit golf balls [on the practice range] for quite a while. So it’s just getting back to basics.”
LIV Golf star DeChambeau shared his unique approach to ensuring his golf balls are perfectly balanced, a technique involving Epsom salts that he employed ahead of his US Open victory at Pinehurst No. 2 last month.
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“I put my golf balls in Epsom salt,” he revealed midway through the tournament. “I’m lucky enough that Connor, my manager, does that now. I don’t have to do it. But essentially we float golf balls in a solution to make sure that the golf ball is not out of balance.”
“There was a big thing back in the day where golf balls are out of balance, and it’s just because of the manufacturing process. There’s always going to be an error, especially when it’s a sphere and there’s dimples on the edges. You can’t perfectly get it in the centre.
“So what I’m doing is finding pretty much the out-of-balanceness of it, how much out of balance it is. Heavy slide floats to the bottom, and then we mark the top with a dot to make sure it’s always rolling over itself.
“It kind of acts like mud. If there’s too much weight on one side, you can put it 90 degrees to where the mud is on the right-hand side or the mud is on the left-hand side. I’m using mud as a reference for the weight over there. It’ll fly differently and fly inconsistently.
“For most golf balls that we get, it’s not really that big of a deal. I just try to be as precise as possible, and it’s one more step that I do to make sure my golf ball flies as straight as it possibly can fly because I’m not that great at hitting it that straight.”