Bryson DeChambeau gained the US Open in astonishing vogue, whereas a tantrum and a tennis star additionally made headlines. Listed below are AFP Sport’s weekly golf speaking factors:

– Bryson’s breakthrough –

Bryson DeChambeau dismantled one among golf’s most feared programs to win his maiden main title on the US Open, elevating issues about what he would possibly do to Augusta when the Masters rolls round in November.

DeChambeau, bulked-up from a regime of weight coaching and protein shakes in the course of the coronavirus lockdown, brutalised Winged Foot with a singular technique that upset the purists and prompted soul-searching among the many {golfing} institution.

Tossing conference out of the window, the 27-year-old eschewed accuracy in favour of smashing his drives for pure distance — hitting simply 4 of his final 21 fairways — and counting on his new-found energy to muscle restoration photographs out of deep tough.

Along with rock-solid placing, the consequence was a six-shot triumph, with DeChambeau the one participant to shoot beneath par within the ultimate spherical on Sunday.

The truth that it got here at a course famed for 1974’s “Bloodbath at Winged Foot” and the 2006 meltdowns of Phil Mickelson and Colin Montgomerie — when Geoff Ogilvy gained with a five-over-par complete — underlined the sensation that this might be a game-changer.

“I do not actually know what to say as a result of that is simply the exact opposite of what you assume a US Open champion does,” mentioned a flabbergasted Rory McIlroy, a four-time main winner.

DeChambeau, a physics main, has lengthy prided himself on the analytical strategy that has earned him the nickname ‘Mad Scientist’.

He is identified for chopping his irons and wedges to the identical size, floating his balls in Epsom salt to find their lighter and heavier sides, and even writing backwards and left-handed to enhance his superb motor abilities.

For the Masters, Dechambeau, dubbed the ‘Unbelievable Bulk’ since his bodily transformation, is planning so as to add one other 10 kilos (5 kilos) of muscle and is contemplating utilizing an outsized, 48-inch driver.

The hazard for the game’s hierarchy is that DeChambeau repeats his success at Augusta, which fits lengthy hitters and has little tough, forcing them to alter the principles or tools to cease golf turning right into a driving contest.

However DeChambeau warned: “It is powerful to rein in athleticism. We’re at all times going to be attempting to get fitter, stronger, extra athletic.

“Tiger (Woods) impressed this complete technology to do that and we’ll preserve going after it. I do not assume it will cease.”

– Six of the worst –

Whereas DeChambeau was turning heads at Winged Foot, New Zealand’s Danny Lee was dropping his.

After an more and more irate six-putt on the ultimate gap of his third spherical, Lee slammed his putter into his bag and hurled it into the turf, earlier than withdrawing with a wrist damage.

“The probably trigger for a sore wrist would have been the 30-year-old smashing his putter into his bag as he stormed off the inexperienced,” quipped New Zealand’s Stuff web site.

Lee’s quintuple bogey left him 13 over for the match — no shame on a course that has been the undoing of many a participant — nevertheless it was his match of pique that drew unfavorable consideration.

“Danny Lee is in peril of being completely tagged with the label no skilled sportsperson wishes –- quitter,” Stuff’s opinion piece added.

“Unhealthy loser? Nicely, that is been thrown at him too.”

To his credit score, South Korean-born Lee issued an apology calling his actions “silly and really unprofessional”.

“My frustration took over me and mixed with damage I needed to combat with all of it week,” he mentioned. “Nonetheless simply an excuse. I should not have left like that.”

– Barty’s birdies –

Ladies’s tennis world primary Ashleigh Barty has been with out her coach for a lot of the yr as a consequence of Australia’s coronavirus restrictions, leaving her at one thing of a free finish.

Not one to mope round the home, the reigning French Open champion has been out on the golf course, the place she confirmed her abilities by successful the ladies’s title on the Greg Norman-designed Brookwater Golf Membership close to Brisbane.

“Is there something you possibly can’t do?” requested one social media person of Barty, who famously took a break from tennis to play cricket for Brisbane Warmth within the 2015-16 Ladies’s Huge Bash League.

Australian media mentioned Barty had slashed her handicap from 10 to 4 whereas taking part in rounds with fellow Grand Slam winner Pat Rafter and her boyfriend Garry Kissick.

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Final December, the multi-talented Aussie even upstaged 15-time major-winner Tiger Woods by discovering the inexperienced at her first try in an indication occasion earlier than the Presidents Cup in Melbourne.

– World rankings –

Prime 10s, week starting September 21, 2020:

Males

1. Dustin Johnson (USA) 10.24

2. Jon Rahm (ESP) 9.83

3. Justin Thomas (USA) 8.84

4. Rory McIlroy (NIR) 7.89

5. Bryson DeChambeau (USA) 7.70

6. Collin Morikawa (USA) 7.63

7. Webb Simpson (USA) 7.16

8. Xander Schauffele (USA) 6.66

9. Brooks Koepka (USA) 5.95

10. Patrick Reed (USA) 5.88

Ladies

1. Ko Jin-young (KOR) 7.97

2. Nelly Korda (USA) 6.68

3. Danielle Kang (USA) 6.28

4. Brooke Henderson (CAN) 5.42

5. Minjee Lee (AUS) 5.35

6. Park Sung-hyun (KOR) 5.26

7. Kim Sei-young (KOR) 5.24

8. Nasa Hataoka (JPN) 5.14

9. Park In-bee (KOR) 4.99

10. Lexi Thompson (USA) 4.77

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