The Masters

Selected Tee Times (UK)
12.33 - B DeChambeau, J Rahm L Oosthuizen
12.55 - T Woods, S Lowry , A Ogletree (A)
16.38 - A Scott, C Morikawa, T Hatton
16.49 - B Koepka, J Thomas, M Fitzpatrick
17.00 P Cantlay , D Johnson, R McIlroy

Other players from our shores include - (1st Tee) Westwood 12.33 M Wallace 13.17 D Willet 16.16 J Rose 17.11 (10th Tee) S Lyle 12.00 P Casey 12.44 I Poulter 13.06 G McDowell 13.17 T Fleetwood 16.27 J Sugrue (A) 17.11

Other Selected European players - (1st Tee) H Stenson 12.44 R Cabrera Bello 13.17 B Wiesberger 16.27 (10th Tee) F Molinari 16.38 B Langer 16.49 J M Olazabal 17.11

Paul Casey -6 after 11 holes.
Defending champion Tiger Woods also doing well on -4.

They are saying that big hitting Bryson DeChambeau will bully the Masters course with 400 yard drives.

Whar can course designers do ro even outwit & out smart that sort of power? Bryson DeChambeau may have found a niche by putting on muscle to improve his power game but surely you have to consider the climate impact of re - designing courses to contain him.

(13-11-2020 01:13 )Charlemagne Wrote:  They are saying that big hitting Bryson DeChambeau will bully the Masters course with 400 yard drives.

The pillocks who use bullying in that way often have no concept of what being bullied is, usually because they are bullies.

I'm not that sure what can be done to combat what Bryson has done. Unless they introduce a Golfing heavyweight division. Sport ingeneral has always looked for ways to get faster, jump further, higher etc. You can really stop him from going to the gym. There's a skill in how he goes about it, just a different skill to most, but when you hit in 350+ he only needs driver, wedge & putter, he doesn't need the skill of hitting a mid or long iron or fairway wood as much as many others, which is part of what makes the game diverse & interesting. One area that I would punish him would be his putting grip, one or 2 others use the shaft up the forearm technique & it's another form of anchoring which they banned with the long putters. A least Augusta bans the use of greens books which is time wasting & not in the spirit of the game, Bryson spends far to long pratting about on the greens.

When Jordan Spieth was at his peak, he seemed unstoppable. But he went off the boil eventually. deChambeau will do too.

I Suppose the only thing you can do is add in either add an extra hazard or something that just might catch long hitters like him out.