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In an 11-minute interview from the shooting range at the third LIV event, Bryson DeChambeau talks about recovering from his hand injury, his long-haul momentum, how he’s helping establish a multi-sport complex and how he dominates the ball in the practice. . By the way.

LIV reporter Troy Mullins caught up with the 2020 US Open champion to chat about “anything and everything,” before seeing him warm up with a 7-iron: “chipping.”

“How far is he jumping you?” she asks, and finds the answer to be no surprise. “7-iron… 205… then I start hitting him… 220… 220 yards.”

Bryson freely goes over his routine in a thoroughly engaging piece, even saying that he sometimes enjoys hitting the ball, just “cutting it… to control the radius,” before saying he’s “joking, by the way.”

Or is it him?

The next minute or so sees the 28-year-old go through a ‘topping’ routine – he touches the top of the ball to “kind of gives my brain an awareness of where that is,” before inviting Troy to reach the perfect top, which she achieves on the first try.

She asks, “What does that do for the average gamer?” and Bryson replies that she gives him a “awareness of where the bottom of the club is.”

The BDC philosophy is that golfers cutting the ball are unaware of where the bottom of the arc is, and it shows us a “low and ordinary top” and a short one. Hello, this is Bryson. He does it his way.

“I know it’s a crazy exercise. People think I’m crazy about it, but I’ve been doing it since I was a kid.” says the seven-time PGA Tour winner. “Us [Bryson’s old coach Mike Schy] he did it all the time. We did it at US Junior.”

Troy then asks how Bryson is doing “with your hand”. before removing the glove to show the scar.

“It’s definitely better. It’s not 100 percent, but it’s coming.”

Given that he finished eighth at the last Major of the year, the 150th Open Championship, he surely seems to be getting back to his best form.

With the first half of 2022 basically a bust, he returned to form at St. Andrews when he ranked in the top 10 in strokes gained off tee, approach and tee-to-green, his best figures on the main tours for almost one year.

Bryson says his hand is around “80 percent strength compared to his right hand, but a couple of weeks ago it was 60 percent.” It’s slow, but it’s coming.

When Bryson originally signed with LIV, he mentioned that it was a “business decision” and, in the interview, confirms his intention to open a multi-sports complex.

“It started with a long-distance vision, at the beginning, and from there I said, ‘Why not do it for all sports?’ Create a high performance center for each sport, but also allow the public to come and use the facilities”.

The plan is to have a membership type of program, but also allow public access to a facility that will have long-throw grids, driving ranges, baseball fields, soccer fields…basketball courts, and begin to grow and develop the Dallas area in that sense.”

The implementation of the idea is not far off.

“We’re acquiring the land here, hopefully by the end of this year, and then we’ll move on.”

Bryson agrees with Troy, herself a long-drive competitor, that training as a youngster should involve more than, “golf, golf, golf, golf, golf”, he clearly wants to see his vision allow multiple sports to be a key in developing strength and power in all aspects, rather than just golf-specific training.

Bryson has his detractors, and not everyone will agree with him, but this is an interview that shows a very human side of a player formally seen as very robotic.

Yes, we do have the ubiquitous few minutes of Bryson hitting 205/206 mph ball speed, but the interview doesn’t take itself too seriously, and it’s certainly a lot more interesting than many of the journalists embroiled in the controversy of the last two! months!

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