Whether or not Bryson DeChambeau’s US Open victory will revolutionize golf or simply give a number of folks a brand new edge, it had different gamers speaking after Sunday’s remaining spherical at Winged Foot.

Ignoring fears of deep tough in favor of pure distance, DeChambeau fired a three-under par 67 to win his first main title by six strokes, leaping from ninth to fifth in world rankings.

“Revolutionize? Perhaps he is simply exposing our sport,” American Xander Schauffele stated. “If he retains hitting it additional and additional, I do not see why he would not be capable to win many extra US Opens.”

DeChambeau’s scientific method, now together with a bulked-up physique bolstered by protein shakes and train over a three-month coronavirus layoff, has confirmed a profitable method: drive lengthy, wedge from the tough, sink your putts.

“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,” stated four-time main winner Rory McIlroy, who shared eighth after a closing 75 left him 12 adrift.

“He has discovered a method to do it. Whether or not that is good or dangerous for the sport, I do not know, but it surely’s simply not the best way I noticed this event being performed.

“It is type of onerous to actually wrap my head round it.”

DeChambeau hit solely 23 fairways for the week but additionally turned the primary participant since 1955 to win with the one sub-par rating within the final spherical. He humbled a course that crushed foes.

“He is form of trending within the new course of golf,” Schauffele stated. “Everybody talked about hitting fairways. It isn’t about hitting fairways. It is about hitting on the proper facet of the opening and hitting it far so you’ll be able to type of hit a wedge as a substitute of a 6-iron out of the tough.

“The one method to make a golf course actually onerous is to agency up the greens and develop the tough… You’d relatively be the man within the tough with a lob wedge than with an 8-iron.”

Then there are those that accept the old school fairways, like two-time main winner Zach Johnson.

“If he isn’t hitting fairways, the quick sport has been excellent and this place will not be simple across the greens,” Johnson stated.

“Is it the right method? I do not know, but it surely’s a method to play. And it is not fallacious in any respect. It is simply very totally different but additionally very efficient.”

With new membership and ball expertise to emphasize distance and massive muscular tissues to propel them, DeChambeau has “taken benefit of the place the sport is on the minute,” Mcilroy stated.

“Whether or not that is good or dangerous, it is simply the best way it’s.”

American Harris English, fourth on 283, notes the short-game ability required to maximise the benefit within the technique.

“It is unbelievable what he can do out of the tough,” English stated. “It is a sport that we have actually by no means seen earlier than.

“John Daly modified it a bit bit throughout his time, Tiger (Woods) modified it and Bryson is altering it once more. It is actually spectacular what he is doing.”

McIlroy, hoping to finish a profession Grand Slam on the Masters in November, says DeChambeau’s technique might repay at Augusta Nationwide.

“I do not shudder, but when he can do it round right here, and I am considering of Augusta and considering of the best way you form of play there, yeah,” McIlroy stated.

“The sport has moved on loads within the final 14 years for the reason that US Open has been performed right here, and also you’re seeing what the sport has change into, what he is doing on the market.”

– ‘Fairly spectacular’ –

McIlroy had been skeptical earlier than, considering what may work at a PGA Tour occasion would not repay at a significant, particularly a US Open, as a result of punitive tough.

“I form of stated, ‘OK, wait till he will get to a correct golf course. He’ll must rein it again in,'” McIlroy stated. “That is as correct as they arrive and look what’s occurred. He has received full perception in what he is doing and it is fairly spectacular.”

South African Louis Oosthuizen, the 2010 British Open champion, noticed no hope for the US Golf Affiliation to defend a course from DeChambeau.

“I do not assume they will set it up for him,” Oosthuizen stated. “I do not know what they will do often because he is hitting it thus far. He is so sturdy out of the tough and he is most likely probably the greatest putters on the market.

“He went out on this journey, and he is pulling it off. He is enjoying nice.”

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