Bryson DeChambeau's driver is ruining his British Open

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Before the start of the British Open, Bryson DeChambeau said his only chance to contend for a Claret Jug was to drive the ball well at Royal St. George’s.

Then DeChambeau went out and hit only four of 14 fairways in Thursday’s opening round, finishing with a frustrating 1-over-par 72. It seemed like DeChambeau was hacking out of the heavy rough all day.  

“That’s what I said a couple days ago — if I can hit it down the middle of the fairway, that’s great, but with the driver right now, the driver sucks,” DeChambeau said. “It’s not a good (club) face for me and we’re still trying to figure out how to make it good on the mis-hits. I’m living on the razor’s edge like I’ve told people for a long time.

“When I did get it outside of the fairway, like in the first cut and whatnot, I catch jumpers out of there and I couldn’t control my wedges. It’s quite finicky for me because it’s a golf course that’s pretty short, and so when I hit driver and it doesn’t go in the fairway, it’s first cut or whatever, or it’s in the hay, it’s tough for me to get it out on to the green and control that.”

Asked what the issue is with the driver, DeChambeau said, “It’s literally the physics and the way that they build heads now. It’s not the right design, unfortunately, and we’ve been trying to fix it (with no) results yet.”

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