Bryson DeChambeau heads into the Masters with two consecutive LIV Golf victories and Lee Westwood says he has been stunned.
Lee Westwood has witnessed Bryson DeChambeau play first hand on LIV Golf (Picture: Getty) This text incorporates affiliate hyperlinks, we’ll obtain a fee on any gross sales we generate from it. Study extra
Lee Westwood has admitted to being greatly surprised by Bryson DeChambeau’s placing this yr within the build-up to the Masters. Former world No. 1 Westwood has had the chance to watch the American in motion on the LIV Golf circuit.
DeChambeau’s marketing campaign has been nothing in need of spectacular up to now. The Crushers GC star has claimed play-off victories in his final two LIV occasions in Singapore and South Africa, together with a T3 end in Adelaide earlier this season. The 32-year-old massive hitter arrives at Augusta in distinctive kind. He has posted consecutive top-10 finishes in Georgia and was very a lot in rivalry for the title final yr earlier than falling away within the remaining spherical as Rory McIlroy claimed inexperienced jacket glory.
Westwood, who strains up alongside DeChambeau on LIV as a member of Majesticks GC, performed in his group in the course of the remaining spherical in Singapore and admits his placing caught him fully off guard.
“I imply he [DeChambeau] is hitting it rather well,” Westwood mentioned. “He is acquired good management of his ball flight and his distance management is sweet. He is driving it rather well. I performed with him round Sentosa [in Singapore], which is kind of a decent golf course. He did not actually miss too many fairways and he’d actually have extra room at Augusta anyway.
“It’s a golf course the place you are flat out, you already know. You are hitting it 100 per cent just about all the week due to the size of it. However clearly the greens and the swirling winds are a problem. You have acquired to have the ability to adapt properly, I feel, to Augusta.”
Watch Lee Westwood play for Majesticks Golf Membership at LIV Golf Mexico Metropolis from Sixteenth-Nineteenth April on TNT
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