Bryson DeChambeau, a defect in the breastplate?

He is the man everyone is waiting for this week in Augusta.

Like a fairground animal.

His results in Augusta are not, however, extraordinary.

In three participations, he has never done better than 21st place, acquired in 2016, when he was still an amateur.

Certainly, last year, Bryson DeChambeau took the lead of the tournament after eighteen holes (with Brooks Koepka) by slamming a nice 66 (-6) before finishing 29th playing twice over par ( 75 Friday and 73 Saturday).

But that was before…

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Since his show of force delivered at the US Open on September 20 in New York State, the Californian has indeed gone into another dimension.

Victorious of his first major with six strokes ahead of Matthew Wolff, on a course (Winged Foot) ultra selective, the American has thus become the big favorite for the final victory in this Masters 2020 shifted from April to November due to of the Covid-19 pandemic.

His odds with bookmakers are currently 8 to 1.

Since his 8th place obtained on October 11 at the Shriners Hospitals for Children, he has however not shown the tip of his nose on the PGA Tour, preparing himself like a Special Forces commando, aligning the sessions of excessive muscles and missiles sent happily with his now favorite club, the driver.

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Physically transformed - he gained 20 kilos of muscles in two years based on a diet of 6,000 calories per day - DeChambeau constantly admires his firepower.

No later than Monday, on the practice of the Augusta National Golf Club, he was thus flashed to 362 yards of carry (331 meters) ... His first reconnaissance outings (in the company of Tiger Woods in particular) demonstrated that he would clearly martyr the course dear to Bobby Jones.

Stratospheric drives (most of the time) followed by a small iron (from sandwedge to 7 iron) have often been on the menu ...

It remains to be seen how he will negotiate the ice rinks in Augusta, the key to success in Georgia.

And this is where it could get very interesting.

Greens books to the nearest tenth of a degree used by DeChambeau at the US Open are therefore prohibited at the Masters.

A local rule.

Each competitor must therefore be satisfied with a much more summary notebook, indicating only the location and direction of the main slopes.

“It makes things more difficult.

All I can do here is judge with my eyes, ”DeChambeau said in 2019 to 

.

Selling beans ...

The legendary Gary Player, three-time Masters winner, warmly welcomed the decision of the Augusta National Golf Club to ban these detailed diaries.

“Bobby Locke (10th in the 1948 Masters) was the best putter that ever existed, explained the South African in the columns of

.

And Tiger Woods was the best putter, and so on.

I've never seen him pull out a notebook to read this damn green.

Do you really have to look at a book to read a green?

Well if you can't read a green you should be selling beans.

It's part of the game. Where are we going?

Everything has become so artificial.

"

"I think he has already made his own notebook with the evaluations of the slopes but it is certain that it bother him a little more, recognizes Thomas Levet, best French at the Masters (13th in 2005).

I think it is not worse.

What he does on the greens is at the limit of the game. There is no player judgment, everything is based on calculation.

Soon he will have a robot who will tell him to play straight edge… ”

Levet: "Some people abuse slow play, and Bryson is one of them"

Bryson DeChambeau, nicknamed the “scientist”, will he therefore spend more time dissecting the slightest slope of the green, he whose reputation as a very slow player is well established?

We hope on this last point that the referees will have as much courage to inflict a penalty on him as they had at the 2013 Masters with the Chinese Tianlang Guan, a 14-year-old kid, the youngest golfer to have crossed a cut in Augusta ...

“On this point, there are players who abuse, and Bryson is one of them, concludes Thomas Levet.

We understand that there is tension, that the stakes are high, but too much is too much.

It's about abusing the game itself but also the viewer who watches it and can't take it anymore.

There are players who play the game, they are on time, they are doing the best they can, in normal times and others who are exaggerating.

I hope that one day there will be a reaction from the referees on this.

Those are capable of inflicting a penalty on DeChambeau but I think they will warn him first.

Something that had not done for the young Chinese ... "