Bryson Dechambeau first played in the champions as amateur 2016, and if there is one thing he learned about playing at Augusta, it is that there is always something to learn to play at Augusta.
“I obviously haven’t learned,” Joking Dichbeau, as a band for sixth in last year’s event. “I can tell you that it has definitely grown in the meantime. Every year I learn a little more about winds and how it affects the golf ball on a certain hole or a certain slope around a pin site, only small things that continue to improve my knowledge around the golf course.”
In last week’s life event in Miami, the decau finished fifth. While he did not win, Dichbeau knows that course – or at least the elements – can help him this week in Augusta.
“Well, considering that I felt pretty good last week in the wind, I hope the wind blows a little this week, and hopefully I can take what I learned from last week into this week,” said Dichbeau, who plays in his ninth master.
“I think that’s what is so cool about this place. You get different wind shocks, and that is what presents most of the challenges for me out here is to try to control that wind to the best of their ability.
“Last week the winds blew 20 miles an hour on the blue monster, and I told myself to be patience, it’s a fantastic prep work for this week. So I felt I was really patience last week and gave me a good driving. Hopefully it pays this week.”
But it is not just the winds that can affect the dechabitau. There are also swirling butterflies in the stomach.
Being nervous is not just something that happens to him on the champions. He knew them in Miami on his way into the last day as well.
But there is something a little special about this weekend.
“I think that as an amateur, I felt that I felt the golf course quite well, but I did not know how to control many nerves that flowed through my body, and that was something I am still working on today,” admitted dechambeau.
Augusta presents many challenges on each hole and when asked which one was the toughest, jokingly joked: “All them.”
But one thing he sees seriously is to win. Getting on the green jacket would fulfill an ambition for the 31-year-old.
“A lifelong dream is fulfilled,” said DECHAMBEU when asked what to win the champions would mean to him. “Something I dreamed of as a child.”
-Field level media
