This is from a recent interview in Golf Digest with Jim Nantz:
Bryson Dechambeau, the reigning U.S. Amateur champion, came by my house recently. Casey Reamer, the head pro at Cypress Point and a mentor to Bryson, asked if I would speak to him about the history of the Masters. It was an amazing two hours. He asked every question imaginable about every significant player in Masters history, with an emphasis on tales of amateurs such as Billy Joe Patton, Frank Stranahan, Ken Venturi and Charlie Coe. I have DVDs of all the recent Masters, and Bryson asked to borrow them, not for entertainment so much as to study hole locations, how putts break, where players were laying up on the par 5s. This young man is obsessed with winning the Masters as an amateur. His mind works in a unique, scientific way. It all reminded me of Bert Yancey and how he constructed clay models of the greens at Augusta and studied them. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see this young man contend.
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The Big Three and the rest have enormous influence, but Bryson is the one who has the capacity to utterly change golf. If he were to win the Masters, think of the impact it would have on the equipment industry. [DeChambeau's irons all are roughly 6-iron length.] His dedication to The Golfing Machinecould alter our approach to instruction. It's hard to fathom how four days in Augusta would shift the landscape of the game so radically, but it would be Tiger-like. And it would be a fulfillment of Bobby Jones' dream of glory going to the amateur.
BoL
Bryson Dechambeau, the reigning U.S. Amateur champion, came by my house recently. Casey Reamer, the head pro at Cypress Point and a mentor to Bryson, asked if I would speak to him about the history of the Masters. It was an amazing two hours. He asked every question imaginable about every significant player in Masters history, with an emphasis on tales of amateurs such as Billy Joe Patton, Frank Stranahan, Ken Venturi and Charlie Coe. I have DVDs of all the recent Masters, and Bryson asked to borrow them, not for entertainment so much as to study hole locations, how putts break, where players were laying up on the par 5s. This young man is obsessed with winning the Masters as an amateur. His mind works in a unique, scientific way. It all reminded me of Bert Yancey and how he constructed clay models of the greens at Augusta and studied them. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see this young man contend.
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The Big Three and the rest have enormous influence, but Bryson is the one who has the capacity to utterly change golf. If he were to win the Masters, think of the impact it would have on the equipment industry. [DeChambeau's irons all are roughly 6-iron length.] His dedication to The Golfing Machinecould alter our approach to instruction. It's hard to fathom how four days in Augusta would shift the landscape of the game so radically, but it would be Tiger-like. And it would be a fulfillment of Bobby Jones' dream of glory going to the amateur.
BoL
