![]() View image in fullscreen Bryson DeChambeau plays from the bunker at the 17th. I’d be loading up, trying to drive them all.” If I had that power, I’d be hitting driver on every freakin’ hole, man. “I was thinking, if he hits driver, he could drive two, he could almost drive three ,” Daly said. He is still analysing the game’s minutiae to destruction. On a day of reduced wind on the cement-hard fairways it mostly worked. “I judged it was the best decision for me and it still is.”įreewheeling Daly, meanwhile, is living on familiar vapours, happy to be back where he once was king.ĭeChambeau could overthink the timing of a boiled egg, but what madness there is in his method has served him well: stiff-armed, robotic, resolutely single plane right down to his putting, and all of it married to a searing golf intelligence. “I respect people’s opinions,” he said of the LIV firestorm. Having decamped to LIV after watching others test the waters, DeChambeau, the ultimate strategist, is fixated about the future and it would seem to have little to do with tradition. ![]() In more ways than one, they reside in different golfing postcodes. Man, for him to shoot the score he did was pretty impressive.” Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardianīut he did enjoy his time with Long John. View image in fullscreen John Daly tees off at the 16th. There’s no way to bomb and gouge out this week.” This is about winning a major championship. I could use my driver but I wouldn’t be able to control my spin and it would go in the fescue. Great kid.”Īs DeChambeau saw it: “You’ve got to strategise your way around this course and it’s not simple by any means. ![]() ![]() I’ve seen him at a few PGA Tour events over the years. On 15, he hit seven-iron off the tee, which is amazing. “He’s hitting his four-iron 280, 290 off the tee. “It was fun just to see the power he has,” an exhausted Daly said of DeChambeau. DeChambeau – who was about to turn two when Daly won the second of his two majors, the 1995 Open – finished three under and within touching distance of the leaders Daly, hobbling under the weight of his faltering 56-year-old legs, did exceptionally well to card 73 and will do even better to finish the 7,300-yard march on Friday without collapsing into the arms of his caddy, his fast-growing son, Little John Daly. They were supposed to be the warm-up act for a short while, they threatened to steal the show. ![]()
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